BRCKs in Education: Studi Academy, Tanzania
We’re receiving increased interest from Education focused organizations to use the BRCK to enable access to their content both online and offline.
One of the partners we’re working with is Studi Academy in Tanzania. Studi is passionate about changing how students in secondary schools in developing countries learn. They provide an online platform for students to engage with localized content adapted to local syllabus and language through educational animations & challenging quizzes, games to add fun and competitiveness and a structure that supports students to pass their critical exams.
Dar es Salaam city center

School "advertising" in Mbagala area, outside Dar es Salaam
One of the schools Studi is working with is St. Anthony’s school, a secondary school on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam. They are using BRCKs to connect their computer labs to the internet, and more importantly to Studi’s content. The Head of Computer labs, is responsible for ensuring students can access Studi content easily. We visited the school to see their experience first hand. Their BRCKs have been working great though the mobile signal is intermittent. We ran some tests and recommended that they get a unidirectional antenna as they have a cell-tower quite close to where the computer labs are located.
BRCKs connected to mobile internet from SIM cards
We also visited Acacia Secondary School, 30km from Dar es Salaam. Their school is 8km from the main road, sitting on a beautiful 55 acre piece of land. Before they receive BRCKs from Studi, it was important for us to run some tests to see what the best use case for their students would be. For internet connectivity, we suggested that in addition to BRCKs, they should get an amplifier and an omnidirectional antenna. We also recommended that they cache content locally on the BRCK, as it has expandable storage capacity, giving the students a better experience than if they were trying to interact with the content online.
Acacia School buildings are 8km from this entrance
With many insights gained on how we can support our partners working in remote educational institutions, we continue to be excited about the potential to provide hardware and software tools to enable online and offline learning. Are you running an educational institution or making education focused investments ? Talk to us - [email protected]Written by angie
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