We are delighted to have entered a new partnership with STEMpower Inc. (https://www.stempower.org/).
STEMpower is an international, not for profit, non-governmental organization registered in USA and Ethiopia and operates in Sub-Saharan African countries, with a vision to reach the whole of Africa. It is founded on the conviction that STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education, Innovation, Acceleration and Tech SMEs are crucial to Africa’s long-term development. STEMpower Inc. provides access to hands-on STEM education encouraging students and innovators to engineer their way out of poverty by strengthening their country’s technical workforce.
Partners in Education Ethiopia, in collaboration with STEMpower and Internet Society (ISOC), are working towards creating a pool of entrepreneurship and hub trainers who can cascade the knowledge and skills necessary in establishing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for aspiring innovators and entrepreneurs in the Amhara National Regional State (ANRS). Candidate trainers have been pulled from schools, Partners’ staff in Bahir Dar and four partner universities in ANRS .