by issp | Oct 28, 2016 | Africa Link, Education, Gender Equity, ISSP, Partners
The A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award recognizes educators who develop innovative teaching practices and approaches that attract girls and women to computing, engineering and math. This year’s winner, Bih Janet Shufor Fofang, is from Cameroon and has been teaching...
by issp | Jan 25, 2015 | Africa Link, California, News
On this page: About the Maasai About Nicholas Sironka and the Friends of Sironka Dance Troupe Events Calendar for their February 2015 visit to the Monterey Bay area The Maasai are a pastoral people who live in Kenya and Tanzania, in the Great Rift Valley of East...
by issp | Oct 11, 2014 | Africa Link, ISSP, Laura's Blog, News, Newsletter Fall 2014
Support our ISSP school-to-school program by helping to provide classroom technology to the students of Tassh Academy in Yaounde, Cameroon, West Africa, so they can connect with students here in the US. We are raising funds for the purchase of tablets for the Tassah...
by issp | Oct 11, 2014 | Africa Link, Education, ISSP, News, Newsletter Fall 2014, Technology
In July of this year, Symantec Corporation, based in the heart of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, California, donated 20 Dell servers to support ISSP‘s international school-to-school partnerships program, linking schools around the globe via the Internet to schools...
by issp | Sep 27, 2014 | Africa Link, ISSP, Laura's Blog, MIIS, News, Newsletter Fall 2014
It is no small feat to connect students in Cameroon, West Africa, with students in California, USA, to learn collaboratively online. The challenges in connecting teachers, combining curriculum—not to mention finding a good Internet connection and power source—are just...
by issp | Sep 27, 2014 | Africa Link, ISSP, Laura's Blog, News, Newsletter Fall 2014
Yaounde, Cameroon, Central Africa Although located downtown, 20 minutes away from school by car, many of the students at Tassah Academy in Yaounde, Cameroon, had never been to the Municipal Lake before. “This is my first time here,” said one student, and...
