USD 500 microgrants available for workshops, short courses

General
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  1. Your name, and that of your organisation (or the organisation that will receive funds on your behalf).

Dauda Mustapha -Noni Makerspace

  1. Name of event. Make another post with another event name if you have another event.

RoboKids Boot Camp

  1. Email address by which you may be contacted.

mustapha@nonihub.org

  1. What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?

Arduino prototyping platform

  1. Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.

This is boot camp will focus on teaching children living in the upper west region of Ghana (between the ages of 6 and 13 years) how to assemble and program Arduino Robots.It will be a 6 days Boot camp which we hope to start from Monday 15 May to Saturday 20, 2023 in which participants will be present mainly in-person. Over the past few years we’ve engaged kids of these ages in various STEM education in these areas. We want to help expand to reach more audience in the coming years. We will be expecting about a number of about 30 to 40 children.

  1. Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.

We have a long term future plan of engaging these kids in there schools which we be forming STEM clubs and making the beneficiaries lead the clubs and also be ambassadors of STEM education in their schools

  1. What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available Will these outputs carry an open licence?

All teaching materials will be based on open source platforms both hardware and software.
As we be using the Arduino platform and STEMpedia platform

  1. What you will use the grant for, roughly.
    The grant will mainly be used for the acquisition of the following;

-Arduino kits
-Robot car chassis
-Stipends for facilitator
-Dc motors and moto drivers
-Snacks for the kids

  1. Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar
    events or works you have executed. School coursework or projects
    can be listed, even social media posts. Anything to give a sense
    of what you’re about and your ability to successfully conduct this
    course or workshop. To keep this short, just the links and their descriptions will do.

(Creative Kids)

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