Powering Potential conducted its first training in 2007 with one laptop. Since then we have held 42 workshops at 32 schools across Tanzania and one school in Peru. 

Each SPARC implementation includes a customized three-week Train-the Trainer course. These classes include the basics of networking, hardware, file management, RACHEL research, office productivity software (word processing, spreadsheets, database, presentation) and in Tanzania, the digitized secondary school curriculum, and in Peru, the Kolibri learning platform.

Periodically we bring students and teachers together from multiple schools to participate in advanced workshops including coding (Scratch), and to collaborate and share ideas.

In 2007, students at Banjika, our first school, had not even seen a computer so Janice started at the very beginning. What is a computer? What can it do? How do you make it work? In a school assembly,  the student body president expressed their appreciation: “We saw computer in Magazine, TV, Newspaper but you are the one who showed us what is computer. We enjoyed all the program you taught us and the data which you recorded. Its real appreciation.” – Tumaini Rweymamu