Ethiopia FLL mentor course by FRC 3211 The Y Team

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Originally Posted by smitikshah

What a wonderful opportunity for outreach on such a global scale- especially starting as high school students. For my own curiosity, I was just wondering -

1.) Why did you chose to work in this area specifically?
2.) How did you students decide/get involved with such an opportunity?
3.) How were the people in Ethiopia selected for such a project?

Thanks - love to see things like this become more common to help the world as a whole become more STEM oriented!

1. We were invited by the humanitarian aid organization - IsraAID. They contacted us as they knew we specialize in starting wide robotics programs with various kinds of populations, and in providing courses for future mentors and coaches.
2. Our students have been instructing similar projects for a few years now in Israel, and modifying it to fit the Ethiopian project didn't take a whole new approach.
3. They are mostly engineers or science teacher, who are willing to mentor FLL teams in the near future, and FTC/FRC teams in the bit more far ahead future.

Thanks for the kind words!