(HBO) - In 2 days (August 12nd-13rd), in Hoa Binh city, the Dariu Foundation held the training session for about 150 informatics teachers from secondary and high schools in the province on how to apply Microbit circuits and the Internet of Things (IOT). This is one of the practical activities of the Dariu Foundation to support Hoa Binh Education implement the digital transformation, contributing to improving the quality of comprehensive education.
The representatives from the Dariu Foundation are giving the technical
guidance to about 150 informatics teachers all over the province on how to
apply Microbit circuits and the Internet of Things to create digital technology
products.
The Dariu Foundation has been
implementing the project in Hoa Binh since 2020. Since then, the Foundation has
supported Hoa Binh Education to provide professional training for 2,805
informatics teachers at all levels with the content relating to Scratch
programming, Microbits and Python. Along with that, they have funded/lent the
educational equipment for the schools to implement educational activities using
digital technology, including 400 laptops and nearly 1,000 smartphones; they
have also sponsored more than 1,000 programming devices such as Microbit
circuits (V1,V2,V3), expansion circuits, sensors… Especially, the Dariu
Foundation has supported the establishment and management of 86 STEM/STEAM
clubs, funding for 15 clubs to implement 15 STEM projects, innovative robots...
In general, the support and sponsorship activities of the Dariu Foundation for
Hoa Binh education have been evaluated as practical, meaningful activity and it
has been contributing an effective part in the digital transformation process
of the provincial education and training sector.
It is known that the Dariu
Foundation was established in 2002 in Switzerland and it has been licensed to
establish a Project Office in Vietnam since 2007. Since its establishment, the
Dariu Foundation has supported Vietnamese partners implement projects on
microfinance, popularizing digital skills, giving scholarships to the students with
difficult circumstances, sponsoring vocational training scholarships,
sponsoring school construction... In recent years, the Dariu Foundation has
also allowed the students with difficult circumstances to borrow laptops to
serve their studies.
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