iSTEP Tanzania

So let me start by saying that I’m a mechanical engineer doing ICT research. Not exactly a cat in water, but still, not exactly what I’m trained for.
While the work is exciting, and definitely challenging, there are times during my stay here when I have been frustrated that I don’t have a computer science background. [...]

Quick updates:
Today I got to visit Uhuru school and meet with the headmaster for the blind section. Bea and I interviewed him about needs, desires, strengths and areas for improvement for the blind school. We learned a lot, and are really excited for where we can go with this project. Uhuru is very different from [...]

So this weekend we got a change to relax. Friday night we had some intentions of exploring, but I think we were all a little too tired, plus we had a meeting Saturday day to prepare for. However Saturday afternoon and Sunday we finally got to go out and do some exploring in the Dar [...]

We had the opportunity to talk to the headmaster from our partner school for the blind as well as the headmaster for the blind section of that school. I was really excited to see where and with who we’d be working, and the meeting went really well. They are excited to be working with us, [...]

We had our final meeting today before some of us leave for Tanzania tomorrow morning. We discussed four main  topics: Travel, Health and Safety; Research; Logistics; and Partner Updates. We had the opportunity to see where we will be staying, got some additional information about our partners in Tanzania, as well as received some great [...]