Twenty Rwandan Schools to Provide Makerspaces for Their Students – Playful Engineering-Based Learning

The Rwanda Makerspace Consortium’s goal to start makerspaces in schools throughout Rwanda made great steps forward in December as forty teachers were trained to teach engineering and to set up makerspaces in their schools. These makerspaces will provide hundreds of Rwandan students with the opportunity to engage in Playful Engineering-Based Learning (PEBL). 

In the fall of 2022, Djamila Khamisi, the Rwanda Makerspace Consortium project leader, spent three weeks at Tufts CEEO and the Tufts Department of Education to co-design a teacher training program for Rwandan teachers focused on hands-on, engineering-based learning. Djamila met with staff and faculty, sat in on Tufts Education courses, and visited makerspaces in local schools. She also tried out CEEO’s hands-on activities herself and then adapted them to existing Rwandan resources and culture to ensure alignment…