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SHELBY PERKINS, PEACE CORPS LESOTHO RPCV 2016-2018.
around these subjects. We need to
change attitudes."
Leading a team of seven U.S. Peace
Corps volunteers in Lesotho, I helped
craft a teacher training and camp program for the country. Curricula and
resources were designed and tailored to
the local conditions. The schools were
brought into the process to build support for our STEAM-themed activity.
It began with a two-day workshop for
12 advisors from all of the schools in
attendance, with the goal of discussing how to overcome the challenges of
teaching STEAM with limited resources,
language barriers, and lack of interest. Teachers also were trained on such
topics as the growth mind-set, and a
STEAM guidebook was created, detailing
different activities that can be completed
in rural environments with few to no
demonstration supplies.
The camp spanned five days, with
each morning focusing on the importance of one of the letters in STEAM,
for example, on "E" day, building the
tallest free-standing tower using only
straws and tape. Afternoons were filled
KAYLA NINH.
Campers along with STEAM team faculty advisors and U.S. Peace Corps volunteers at the end of the Closing Ceremony at the camp.
Students rapidly took to technology, even those who had no previous experience
with computers.
with work on a weeklong group project, "Build a Bridge!" It emphasized
how these topics intersect, ranging
from setting a budget to prototypes.
Multiple professional organizations
also took part. The Girl's Coding Academy introduced Scratch programming.
The Morija Art Center taught felt making using local materials. The Bethal
JUNE 2019
Business and Community Development
Center explained solar energy systems.
The list seemed endless. Some students
touched a computer for the first time,
others had no idea what engineering
was, and some even learned how to
code without any technology at all. In
a truly inspiring moment, within 15
min, students who had no previous
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