About Us

An Africa sustainably transformed by generations of problem-solvers.

Enable every African child to learn by doing.

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"Around 250 million children are not learning basic skills, even though half of them have spent at least four years in school… Investing in teachers is key: in around a third of countries, less than 75% of primary school teachers are trained according to national standards."

- UNESCO Global Monitoring Report 2013/14

“Among grade 6 students in West and Central Africa in 2014, less than 45 percent reached the “sufficient” competency level for continuing studies in reading or mathematics—for example, the rest could not answer a math problem that required them to divide 130 by 26.”​

- World Bank World Development Report 2018

We believe that if we train African STEM teachers in low-cost, practical pedagogies, then the STEM pipeline will be strengthened, because student attitudes and learning outcomes in science and mathematics will improve.

Practical Education Network (PEN) improves learning outcomes by building teacher capacity. The teacher training program PEN provides is infused with MIT-style, learning-by-doing to enable hands-on science regardless of resource constraints. PEN offers a series of workshops where West African STEM teachers learn, design, and share hands-on activities which complement the national curriculum and are created from low-cost and locally available materials.