Supported by an international team of experts and technologists, OPEN is launching a new student-led sustainable community development education program – OPEN’s Air Quality Monitoring Education Tech Initiative.
Schools who sign up will receive OPEN RAK environmental sensor development kits and gain access to our related course modules where students will learn how to assemble, program, and deploy air quality sensors to monitor air quality surrounding their school campus.
Next, OPEN and its services team will begin to onboard to our backend data network systems, and successively connect additional schools into a citywide network. OPEN will set up data dashboards and give access to data repositories for students to continually monitor and analyze the air quality data of their school neighborhood, and those of other schools as they come online.
Our AI assessment and analytics system will teach students how to use AI to promote and advance sustainable community development applications be it air quality, smart farming, or ecosystem restoration. This air quality data network and AI system can also be made available to each city’s education and environmental agencies. OPEN’s student-led sustainable community development action education!
Local city environmental agencies who need to track this will benefit by partnering with local Ministry of Education and Environment – preparing students for a science and technology driven future, and in turn environmental experts will obtain the air quality data they need to resolve this global challenge. Students apply their newfound knowledge to support their local communities, while learning data analytics and AI for environmental assessments.
The program is ambitious, exciting, and will be most helpful to the missions of the Ministry of Education in those cities and the environmental agencies who can really put this data to good use in helping trace major and shifting pollution sources, tracking over time the pollution hotspots and working to mitigate these dangerous particulate emissions to improve the health and well-being of their citizens.
The Technology and Education Program Package
The Environment Kit
(3 or 4 kits per school)
- ✔ WisBlock Environment Sensor Kit
- ✔ School Sensor IoT Network Gateway Device
- ✔ Outdoor Weatherproof Solar Enclosure (Battery required)
Course Zero
The Initial Air Quality Sensor Course
- ✔ Assembling & Programming Sensors
- ✔ Deployment & Networking
- ✔ Dashboards & Analytics
Pricing Note:
Pricing packages for course and sensor kits will be adjusted for volume sales, and will also offer a discount to the first 25 schools who sign up. We will discuss the discount rate with school and Ministry officials that have a strong interest in this ground-breaking global education initiative.
Air Quality Sensor Data Dashboard
Figure: Example of the live air quality monitoring dashboard.
OPEN’s Previous Program in Abuja Nigeria
Sept. 2021 – March 2022
With funding from the US Embassy and in partnership with Dr. Badewa, Founder and Director of the Royal Academy of Educational Therapy Foundation and four other special needs schools from Abuja, Nigeria, we delivered a teacher training and student program that was a resounding success.
Now we wish to take this program to the next level and to completion with our new Air Quality Education Initiative teaching and fully supporting these and other teachers and students from these schools the programming, outdoor deployment and networking of these OPEN-RAKwireless sensor kits, using the first Air Quality Course we are proposing.
Global Impact & Testimonials
Voices from our Special Needs School Participants in Abuja, Nigeria
“The STEM training has changed my orientation about teaching science to children with special needs. It has opened my eyes to different methodologies… help them to begin to develop interest in science. Thanks!”
ANJORIN Olusegun
Royal School For Educational Therapy, Abuja
“With the introduction of STEM in our school, students that were always sleeping are now the ones dominating the classroom… STEM makes teaching as well as learning easier.”
Abdulllahi Isiaka
STEM Teacher, Junior Day Secondary School, Kwali
“Teachers were empowered with practical knowledge… More than 20 students were inaugurated as STEM ambassadors and they were very motivated and excited.”
KATHRYN OBAIKE
STEM Teacher, Royal School of Ed. Therapy
“My name is Titila Ishola. I learnt how to fix environmental sensors and how to dismantle the machine… I am very much happy to learn and to be a STEAM AMBASSADOR.”
Titila Ishola
Student Participant
“My name is Cornelius Philimon. I learnt how to fix and disconnect sensors. I also appreciate the method used by my teachers. Thank you for the token given to me.”
Cornelius Philimon
Student Participant
“I learnt how to assemble sensors, it enabled me to be an electrical engineer. I am working on a project on windmills using the STEAM approach.”
Abdulbasit Yakubu
Student Participant
Media Coverage
National and Local Television News Archives
RSETF STEM Training for Special Education Teachers
January 12, 2022
NGO Trains Personnel for People with Disabilities (PWD)
January 24, 2022
All Inclusive Learning: OPEN’s STEM Professional Development
April 8, 2024
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