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Tech Needs Girls: Building an HCD Curriculum in Ghana

Creative Fields

Education

Development

Human Centered Design

 

Course or Client

Soronko Solutions

A Ghanian Social Enterprise

 

Completion Date

September 2015

 

Skills

Curriculum development

Cross-cultural STEM education

Metric development for creativity and problem solving skills                    

Challenge:

Build and pilot a curriculum teaching problem solving and critical thinking skills to Ghanian girls

ages 10 to 16.

Tech Needs Girls Design Workshop

Tech Needs Girls Design Workshop

Learning Arduino

Learning Arduino

Community Resource Evaluation

Community Resource Evaluation

Design Notebooks

Design Notebooks

Making Design Notebooks

Making Design Notebooks

Mentor Teaching

Mentor Teaching

Cardboard Prototypes

Cardboard Prototypes

Arduino Workshop

Arduino Workshop

Trash Challenge

Trash Challenge

Featured in the Dartmouth Engineer Magazine and as a selected project in the Davis Projects for Peace Annual review.
Short documentary by the Thayer School of Engineering
A student shares her story of how asking questions changed a life.
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