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Vision AfriKa reached many milestones during the 2015 academic year. “Passing grade 12 has not been an emphasis for us for a while as that would set the bar just too low for our kids,” said Gerrit Laning, Operations Manager at Vision AfriKa. “Passing with Bachelors’...

Team4Tech and Autodesk, Eduvate and the GSDT’s collaborators from Silicon Valley, will present an EdTech Meetup on 19 April during their visit to Stellenbosch. Team4Tech aims to advance the quality of education in developing countries. In April, they are going to...

Volunteers from Team4Tech and Autodesk are arriving in Kayamandi on 11 April, to  spend two weeks training local teachers in the implementation of 21 century technology and skills in the classroom. This follow after a successful first visit to South Africa in August...

Audrey Jarre and Svenia Busson, co-founders of the EdTech World Tour, visited Kayamandi and Vision AfriKa on Tuesday, 1 March. They describe the EdTech World Tour as “an initiative promoting global perspectives on Edtech fuelled by local insights”. Audrey and Svenia...

Amazink will be partnering up with US Woordfees as a festival venue in March. Events taking place at Amazink will include the KACF PoetryFest (4 March), Sizimisele Technical High School’s play Home Love (5 March) and the play Mis (7 March). Check out all the Woordfees...

Vision AfriKa’s Grade 12 learners recently attended a career guidance day, aimed at opening their eyes to the many options open to them post matriculation. The edutainment camp, which was held in the middle of February at the Simonsberg Christian Centre, provided...

Team4Tech and Autodesk will return to Makupula Secondary School on 12 March and 16 April this year, after a successful visit to the school in 2015. Training will include everything from photography to basic digital literacy, Tinkercad and 3D printing. GSDT, Eduvate...

After a careful selection process, Vision AfriKa has now chosen the 40 Grade 8 learners who will join its educational development programme for this year. The students were picked from among 70 applicants based on how effectively they answered the questions posed to...

Follow Vision AfriKa on Instagram at @Vision_AfriKa. You will find photos of daily activities and special events and it is a quick and easy way to stay up to date with the school. On the 12th of March we will be posting photos taken by learners at the Tech day.

Vision AfriKa celebrated the hard work of its Grade 1 learners over the last year by hosting a prize-giving evening at the end of November. The event, which was held at the Ikhaya Trust Centre in the Kayamandi township, started with a slide show as the parents...

Vision AfriKa is the very proud owner of two Makerbot 3D printers. Autodesk donated these versatile and very exciting printers. At the Tech days learners have been learning how to work and design in Tinkercad, software allows the user the design 3D objects and then...

Sarah O’Rourke, Senior Product Marketing Manager for the Consumer and 3D Printing at Autodesk, has shared her experience of teaching children on Tech Day: “It’s Sarah again, coming to you from South Africa. I wanted to share the power that Tinkercad had over the...

Vision AfriKa was host to two very successful Tech days in 2015. Team4Tech and Autodesk  presented the first Tech day in August and Eduvate and GSDT presented the second one in October. A Tech day is an opportunity for learners to work and play with technology. In the...

Nicolas Mtaki has started a small IT centre in his community. This will provide a place where young people can come and develop skills and surf the net. It has taken Nicolas Mtaki 3 months to find a suitable premise to locate the donated computers.  This was no small...