ICT in Education/Completed Change Projects/2014A

Change projects completed by 2014 A group

Afghanistan

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Problem:

Aim (max 80 words)

Approach/methods: (max 200 words)

Results: (max 200 words)

Conclusions and lessons learned (max 200 words)

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Suggestions for the future (max 100 words)

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Ethiopia

1. Addis CS4HS

Addis CS4HS is a project that aims to introduce Computer Science to high school students in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It started in April 2014. The first batch of students were from Menelik II high school, which is the one of the oldest and the first high school in the country. The students were thought about the basics of Java programming, Joomla website development, movie making, Google web tools(such as Youtube, Gmail, Google Maps and Google+). 10 students were trained by 3 volunteers from Addis Ababa University from June - August,2014. Here is the link to the documentary video.

Project Title:Introducing high school students to Computer Science (Addis CS4HS)

Country: Ethiopia

Change agent (name): Fasika Minda

Organization: Addis Ababa University

Problem:

1. Small number of students join CS/Engineering departments
2. Not enough software developers
3. Currently most CS departments accept less number of students compared to other departments in universities across the country. Therefore enough developers are not being produced.
4. Not skilled enough to do the job
5. From the graduates of the field of Computer Science, most students go for other unrelated jobs. Therefore less amount of skilled human power in the area.

Aim: Introducing high school students to Computer Science.

1. To let students get inspired about joining CS/engineering and know about technologies and their usage in every subject/career they might be in
2. Introducing students to program a computer so that they could learn different ways of thinking and problem solving
3. Let them know that computing jobs are flexible and that they can work in any company
4. Build their ability and confidence to succeed in computing highlight current and past Ethiopian CS/Engineering student’s projects and achievements
5. To let students visit colleges and technology companies and let them know how computing relates to other subjects like health, agriculture, fashion, entertainment, education etc.
6. To get students familiar with important Google apps and web tools
7. And also to create a network and fun time between high school students and university students

Approach/methods:

1. Volunteer-based
2. Start to teach from the bottom from high schools so that students can be prepared for their college courses
3. learn by doing → project based learning

Results: 10 students from one high school so far

Conclusions and lessons learned (max 200 words)

Stakeholders:

• High school students:
• High school teachers:
• University students
• Department of computer science, AAU:
• University lecturers
• Tech companies / NGOs

Beneficiaries: high school students, university students

Suggestions for the future (max 100 words)

Key words: Computer Science education for high school, #cs4hs, #highschool, #aau