On the 5th of August, Awarenet took 9 learners to a World Robotic Olympiad competition at Kingswood College. The competition serves as a qualifier for the national competition in Gauteng which in turn qualifies teams for the international Robotic Olympiad. The best of the Awarenet robotics teams took part in this competition which was the Read more about WRO Robotics Competition[…]
10th of June Awarenet hosted its first Robotics in House competition at the Joza Youth Hub. We had learners from five different schools of our schools that we trained who attended the competition and our trainers who assisted with judging on the day. The competition we had was helping our learners for preparations for the Read more about Robotics Competition[…]
The Awarenet Robotics program has just kicked off for 2023 with more learners than we were training last year and more interns to help out in schools. We recruited 5 new schools for robotics training for learners at the school premises. This program is implemented in order to help learners be prepared when Robotics and Read more about Awarenet Robotics 2023[…]
How can youth influence the state in providing more access to technology in a local South African community? By “talking technology” to those in power through a new project organised by Awarenet where youth from Makhanda seeks to put the spotlight on the lack of access to information technology in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas. Local youth Read more about Talking Technology to Power[…]
On the 15th of October Awarenet started its first robotics and coding course! Five tutors who earlier this year went through professional training is teaching a group of grade 8 and 9 learners every Friday at the Joza Youth Hub. The learners enjoy the course very much as they the learn the ropes of coding Read more about Awarenet course in robotics and coding for kids![…]
On the 26th and 27th of August 2021 Awarenet hosted a two days robotics course which was run by Mr Danie Heymans from the Care for Education . The purpose of this course was to teach community members to become robotic trainers for local children. Through learning how to make a robot and control it Read more about Robotics Course in Makhanda[…]
The awarenet open lab has introduced new open lab courses for the year 2021, this is to help the learners of the schools in Joza and adults that are not familiar with computers. Now they will get an opportunity to know how to use a computer as some of them have never had the privilege Read more about Awarenet Open Lab Courses[…]
A time of crisis also means a time where change seems more possible. At awarenet we have tried to use the crisis to change our programmes in a meaningful way for the youth and children attending. After a bleak lockdown of most activities in South Africa from the end of March until the end of Read more about Living with the pandemic at awarenet[…]
The awarenet Open Lab reopened on the 15th of October 2020 after having been closed since the beginning of the lockdown at the end of March 2020. All the kids in the Joza community who use our open lab for school-related work were really happy to hear the good news that the awarenet open lab Read more about Re-opening of Open Lab[…]
On the 1st of June awarenet reopened its computer labs to high school learners in the core group program after a two months break! This followed the South African government’s announcement of downgrading the COVID-19 lockdown. The new so-called level 3 regulations allows educational institutions to start operating as long as strict protocols for the Read more about Teaching in the time of COVID-19[…]