This grassroots impact program is being championed in collaboration with an Edtech company {igebra.ai} as a pilot. We welcome any suggestions from members on scaling and collaboration opportunities that further ASEI’s mission.
Our research shows that many students at the grassroot level across the world don’t receive even the necessary math education. The Indian education system in rural areas has its own set of challenges like lack of teachers, right studying material, quality of lesson delivery and many more which leads to increased fear of math and eventually kids either fail or leave math after 10th grade.
A lot needs to be done to provide better quality math education for all children at the grassroot level. Because the importance of math in the modern world cannot be overstated. It has applications in every profession, scientific discovery, digital data and AI apart from daily life.
ASEI in the past conducted a few STEM workshops in the US in collaboration with {igebra.ai} which has recently initiated the “Math4ALL” grassroots impact program which aims to solve the above pressing problem by providing well trained teachers who care for kids and make them fall in love with Math.
ASEI is strengthening partnership with {igebra.ai} to take “Math4ALL” outreach to the next level by bringing awareness of this collaboration with members of ASEI and enterprise leaders and Corporate Social responsibility initiatives.Along with providing math education at grassroot society this partnership is also creating local employment opportunities to the unemployed youth. {igebra.ai} will recruit, train and deploy hundreds of math teachers at grassroot level schools to achieve the outreach mission.
Recently, team {igebra.ai} with support from ASEI conducted a successful Math4ALL workshop in a government school at Bendapudi, Andhra Pradesh, India.
The program also got the attention of collector of Kakinada district Dr. Kritika Shukla, IAS who invited the {igebra.ai} team to meet and understand the program. Dr. Kritika Shukla, IAS was thrilled by the feedback and extended her support to implement the program across the district.
ASEI and {igebra.ai} are in discussion with supporters and exploring the possibility of implementing across the district in phases. Here is a small glimpse of these Math4ALL workshops and kids sharing their experiences.
The mission to make math inclusive has just begun! ASEI and {igebra.ai} are exploring partnerships with interested organizations and individuals to reach out to more schools and communities across India and US to Make Kids Fall in Love with Math/STEM.
* Contributed by ASEI Lifemember Sreeni Vemula, who has been on the Silicon Valley Chapter board for several years and also served as founding treasurer
