At the school, work is now a little more project-based as part of our participation in a STEM program led by Marymount University, USA. We have had visits to America. Our mentor school in Jinja celebrated being certified as a STEM school.

Afterwards, pupils and staff together with the foreign guests came to us for a day to assist in our process. The students are currently working on a module on malaria: How do mosquitoes live, how can the disease be prevented and is the best mosquito trap made? Groups of students will design and make their own traps. In a later module, they will learn to make mosquito repellent from local plants. This is STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) in practice at primary school level! We have a way to go before we are approved, but the students love to explore and try themselves in practice. Pupils in our local STEM club at school have taken on various positions and tasks in the process.

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