Please read the article by Lindsay Craig about the class he taught in Gulu at the annual Oysters & Pearls Technology Camp.
I’m starting a robotics toy company called QuestBotics (which is another story), but in my copious free time every year I go to Uganda, Africa to teach a Technology camp with Oysters & Pearls – Uganda. It’s a two-week event and kids in northern Uganda flock to a school called Gulu High where they get to play with sensors, tiny robot brains (microchips), Legos, video games, motors and virtual reality.
With over 120 students and 50 staff members at the camp in Uganda, we have our hands full just getting the power turned on, but that didn’t stop us – this year, we found the time to add four new subjects for the students–shortwave radio, audio, art and solar energy.
Pushing the boundaries in Uganda Tech Education
We’re always pushing the boundaries of what we can teach at the Gulu Annual Tech Camp. The second year of its existence we were teaching printed circuit board design as a part of the prototyping course. Students had clamored in the past for the opportunity to work with Bluetooth and other wireless technology. So, we bought a bunch of low-cost short-wave transmitters and receivers and hooked them up to Arduinos. It was easy for the students to get the units functioning and then came the fun part of running around outside testing the range limits.
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THAT GREAT FOR YOUTH IN NORTHERN UGANDA
I would like to thank you for your time and faith and trust to Uganda, i want to join you but i think you left Uganda some time back but i don’t know how can i join you?
I am Tolbert from kampala and I have met some of my collogues that were there before, they have told what is food there so I have to first appreciate you. Thank you very much
Big thanks to Oysters and pearls,but mostly I would want to thank the Annual Tech Camp at GHS because it has made me to know more about electronics and it has thought me tricks of learning Electronics by my self,greatly it has given me a inspiring heart of loving Technology.
Note from O&P: GHS has been our host since the first Jan camp in 2014. All expenses are paid by Oysters & Pearls- Uganda, including cleaning the campus in preparation. We are glad you are contributing and benefiting from attending!