Tag: Dzaleka Refugee Camp
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Pennington School students engineer product for girls in Africa; become finalists in youth innovation challenge
The Pennington School’s Women in STEM Solving Problems (WISSP) group was selected as one of 20 finalists in the MIT Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge. The competition invited international participants 24 and younger to submit tech-based solutions that address one of their four pillars: learning, health, sustainability, and economic prosperity, as well as other unmet needs…
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The Pennington School expands service work for Malawi refugee camp
Over the past three years, students at The Pennington School have been using their STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) skills to solve real-world problems and provide needed resources to the schools at the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi, Africa. This year, Pennington students have refurbished iPads, provided online math tutoring sessions, designed a hybrid sanitary…