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Amazing welcome by the whole school
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It clearly meant a lot for the school that we came to visit
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Pupils and parents getting ready to sing the national anthem
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National anthem of Tanzania
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Headteacher of Ukombozi giving welcome speech, Veronica from Tumaini translating
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Emmi Puputti from Embassy gave her welcome address in kiswahili and asked to two parents and pupils for an interview
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Studying history from wikipedia on OLPC laptops
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Pupils spend about 2 hours per week with computers
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During 'free computing' they can also play games
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At first everyone was a bit nervous about all of us visitors...
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...but soon they relaxed. :)
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Writing a welcome note for the exhibition on word processor
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Saila Pakarinen has been volunteering at Ukombozi helping students to learn and work with computers
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Momentarily everyone was in deep thought
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Concentration
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Only 1 out of 87 laptops has stopped working during three years!
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Tomi from the Embassy was really impressed and interested what has taken place at Ukombozi
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Scratch is a visual programming environment...
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... that students used to create a football game!
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Pretty cool
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Headteacher is explaining how well students are doing in national exams now
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Emmi is interviewing students on how they are using computers...
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...and asking parents opinions as well.
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Matti and the headteacher discussing exam results
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Tomi and Saila sharing experiences
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Computers are packed into boxes every afternoon stored elsewhere as school doesn't have a secure storage facility
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Science teacher guiding students
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Parents also came to see how the students are using the computers
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For many parents this was the first time they saw their children using a computer!
