Accra, Ghana August 31, 2020 – Ashesi Design Lab, the design thinking and creative innovation nucleus of the Ashesi University (leader in STEM education in Africa) lanches the start of the Future Learning Virtual Hackathon 3 of 3, the final of a series of three hackathons focused on tackling problems in the current dispensation of COVID-19. 

Background

With the appearance of the COVID-19 pandemic, many educational institutions all over the world and especially in Ghana has closed down and resorted to having classes and exams online. Having a system that tracks the progress made by the students with regards to their performance and continuous assessment is vital to the current online schooling system.

With classes for most schools resuming, but online, in September the Future Learning Virtual Hackathon 3 of 3 by the Ashesi Design Lab comes in to invite brilliant ideas and innovative solutions to tackle the problem with monitoring and measuring the progress of the students while at home.

The core idea of a hackathon is to bring people from across disciplines, sectors and geographic locations together to identify pressing needs within a given sphere and devise innovative and scalable solutions for them. To be launched on the 31st of August, 2020 the Future Learning Virtual Hackathon 3 of 3 will be open to participants from different educational divides to register their teams.

Stay Safe! Stay Home! Design and Innovate!