Enabling Quality STEM Education for Everyone, Everywhere.
At African STEM Education Initiative (ASEI), we believe that STEM is more than just skills—it’s a powerful mindset that ignites creativity, fosters innovation, and drives social change. Our mission is to empower African youth and community leaders with the STEM knowledge and tools they need to unlock their potential and catalyze sustainable development across the continent. By equipping individuals with essential STEM skills, we enable them to tackle challenges, seize opportunities, and make meaningful contributions to their communities.
Founded in 2019 by five visionary young Africans, ASEI has since made a tangible impact, reaching over 15,000 students and teachers in the Rwenzori region of Uganda alone. We have cultivated a STEM culture that enhances digital skills, boosts confidence in STEM careers, and supports community leaders in solving local problems through innovative approaches. With robust partnerships spanning schools, universities, businesses, agencies, and governments, our network of engaged STEM leaders is addressing the root causes of challenges in STEM education. Together, we are reshaping the future of STEM education in Africa, ensuring that quality education and transformative solutions are within reach for everyone, everywhere.
Enabling Digital Skills
STEM-in-Schools
Our foremost goal is to facilitate quality STEM education for everyone. Despite the inefficiencies and disparities between the rural poor and urban affluent, many national education systems have labored in equipping young Africans with skills in science and mathematics, yet there remains a significant gap in technology and computer science education.
At ASEI, we recognize that proficiency in digital resources and tools, such as computers, is essential for students aspiring to succeed in 21st-century education, careers, and entrepreneurship else, they are left behind.
That is why, we launched the STEM-in-Schools program which, creates STEM Bubbles in secondary schools throughout Uganda.
The STEM Bubble
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A collection of students who earnestly seek to better themselves in digital skills. Within STEM bubbles, students receive mentorship and training through a curriculum tailored to computer programming concepts. They gain exposure to computer technologies and acquire digital competencies such as typing, coding, internet navigation, problem-solving, and critical thinking.
Within the bubble, students from various grades and levels collaborate in groups of 5-10, each group having access to a laptop computer, to collectively develop and complete a coding project.
The STEM Bubble
Experience
“It is amazing how much we can do with computers“
Senior 2 Students, Kyebambe Girls
Initially, they believed computers were limited to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, watching movies, and playing music, as those were their only skills. However, being part of the bubble in the STEM-in-Schools project has taught them coding and web design. The possibilities of what they can now achieve are truly astounding.
“I have discovered a new passion and confidence in my abilities to realize my dreams“
Irene Karungi, 17 years
The digital world had been a source of frustration for Irene, making her feel left behind. However, the STEM-in-Schools project has empowered her to learn the creation of websites, apps, games, and animations through various languages and frameworks. This experience has ignited a new passion and bolstered her confidence in her abilities, to purse her dream of becoming a designer and software engineer.
The STEM Bubble
Effect so far
5
Schools Reached
1,780+
Students Skilled
64%
Female Students
58%
1st time computer users
How We Enable STEM Education for Many More
Our mission is to enable quality STEM education for everyone, everywhere. We have a goal of reaching 100,000 African students and youth by 2030. We know this is possible through adaptive management, effective partnerships, disruptive innovations, and Advocacy.
Scaling STEM Bubbles to More Schools
Testimonials from the STEM Bubble experiences do tell us that exposure of young Africans to computers and technologies at a young age is the foundation to sparking their interest for future engagements.
We want to continue giving opportunities to more and more young africans to experience what using a computer is and what they are possible to achieve using a computer.
We are scaling through growing our organization to establish and facilitate more bubbles in schools as well as training and providing technical assistance to computer teachers and volunteers to establish bubbles in their schools
Digital Solutions to Revolutionize STEM Education
We are developing Chanak, an edtech application that will make adapted quality Science & Technology education a possibility for everyone, everywhere.
With Chanak, STEM teachers can effectively craft their lesson plans and adapt them to their needs and those of their students. They save more time which they can channel to helping their students.
STEM students in Africa can finally have an adapted consolidated platform to learn, master, and horn the different STEM skills in Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Agriculture, Mathematics, and Computer Science & Programming
Collective Action to Address Root Causes
Enabling STEM education is more than just teaching STEM skills. We are forming partnerships that aim at tackling the barriers that hinder access to quality education. These challenges include:
- Inadequate WASH facilities: Posing health risks to students.
- High poverty levels: Limiting families’ ability to afford education.
- Lack of digital tools: Preventing students from benefiting from technology.
- No access to electricity: Hindering study after sunset.
- Gender disparities: Female students often have to juggle domestic chores with studies.
While we can’t tackle these issues alone, we believe in the power of collective action to provide solutions and transform Africa.
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