I started volunteering with the Teenpreneurs Educational Foundation (T.E.F.) Community Innovation Hub in late 2021, I was offered various roles to handle during my time there.
As a S.T.E.M. Educator, I volunteered my time (all days of the week, excluding Sunday) to train over forty pre-teens (every day) and out-of-school teenagers on Coding, Basic Robotics, Digital Literacy, Creativity, V/R, Community Development, and Innovation; with fostering Sustainable Development Goal four, (Quality Education)
As an educator, I connected with my students; I built up their confidence and knowledge in the basics of S.T.E.M. Education while honing their ability to solve real-world problems, become digitally literate, and think critically. The organization also regularly encouraged the students to apply for opportunities in their space and areas of interest, and supervision of their applications was done under me and my team's guidance.
We also managed the organization's well-being, taking into account every student and the equipment used in our daily activities.
During my activities there, I improved my leadership and public speaking skills through the regular training I managed and the events I had to engage in. collaboration, project management, and active listening were other crucial skills I developed, and these experiences as an educator were enlightening, teaching me how to drive social impact in my community through quality education.
Some challenges I had to navigate through this were how to become a good tutor, building rapport with students, and developing inclusive curriculums for their classes.
This is a boot camp I facilitated over two weeks that encompassed children from ages 9-16 years.
This camp reached 300+ students in the community and beyond, as interstate participants also joined the event.
I was also the Program Manager for this event, and I trained the attendees across topics like;
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals, Coding, Digital Communication, 2D Animation, & 3D Printing.
At the end of the event, students got participation certificates, and the top best were awarded laptops for their projects!
This fostered digital literacy and tech skills for children in the community.
These are some of the regular classes I had with the students, and the first photo is from a summer school I volunteered with to expand the reach of S.T.E.M. Education in my community.
Apart from facilitating these classes, I had to develop activities, events, and programs for the students as a project and program manager.
In these classes, I urged creative learning through scratch programming (coding), a subject which students always looked forward to as they learned to create fun, gaming and educational projects.
They were able to understand the S.D.G.s and how to advocate for them through coding, project presentations and debates.