Congratulations Yasaman! This sounds great! We should talk more about in our next meeting.
Dina
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________________________________ From: Thirdspace thirdspace-bounces@dgp.toronto.edu on behalf of Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat rifat@dgp.toronto.edu Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2019 11:40:02 PM To: Ishtiaque Ahmed ishtiaque@cs.toronto.edu Cc: Thirdspace@dgp.toronto.edu Thirdspace@dgp.toronto.edu Subject: Re: [Thirdspace] Yasaman and her Team have won "Hackathon for Education!"
That's great news. Congratulations, Yasaman, and your team!
Best, Rifat
On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 6:47 PM Ishtiaque Ahmed <ishtiaque@cs.toronto.edumailto:ishtiaque@cs.toronto.edu> wrote: Dear All,
(please discard the previous email which got sent in the midway)
Yasaman and her team have become Champion the Hackathon for Education (https://puebloscience.org/hackathon/) which took place today! They have developed a prototype that are supposed to be deployed in Guyana for science education!
Here is some text I copied from her email to me a while ago -
"The challenge of this hackathon was to build a robotics-based science activity kit for high school students in Guyana that:
* Clearly teaches one or more science or engineering concept(s) listed in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) syllabi. * Can be taught, performed, and discussed by teachers and their students within two or three 90-minute instructional periods. * Uses only materials that can be purchased or easily ordered in Guyana and in total cost less than $20 CAD per kit for re-useable kits or $5 CAD per kit for non-reuseable kits. * Is hands-on and interactive (and fun!). * Satisfies the definition of “robotics activity”.
"
Congratulations, Yasaman! We are so proud of you!
Best Regards, Ishtiaque
Best Regards, Ishtiaque
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