Creating invention education opportunities for students in Africa to build a sustainable pipeline of young inventors solving community challenges
Global Minimum (GMin) is a nonprofit that encourages young innovators and leaders in Africa to engage with critical thinking skills and hands-on learning programs to tackle actual challenges affecting their communities.
GMin provides enabling tools, safe spaces, mentorship, curricula, resources, networks and opportunities to go through rapid prototyping. They currently work in Sierra Leone, Kenya and in South Africa.
GMin’s programs include:
InChallenge:
The InChallenge program is a national invention challenge for youth in Sierra Leone, Kenya and South Africa. It elicits project proposals from youth around the country and offers design workshops, seed funding and mentorship to select finalists in order for them to develop their conceptual projects into tangible solutions that positively affect their community.
InLab:
The InLab program is a ten-week after-school program that provides youth in select partner schools with the opportunity to learn problem solving skills, collaboration and creative thinking through interest-driven curriculum.
GMin is developing invention education curricula and program models that can be implemented in other schools and other African countries, with the aim of building a new pipeline of students who have a deeper understanding of the challenges facing their communities and the skills to address those challenges.