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KANDENGUE SCIENTISTS - Here we build the future

5/4/2020

 
This week InnovaSpace is highlighting the great work taking place in Angola by the Academy of Kandengue Scientists, with a blog written by Mentor of the project Pedro Paris and Aeronautical Engineer Marco Romero. We thank the Academy for the contribution of their students to our Kids2Mars project - and for their amazing work in creating opportunity for the local people and community! You are all stars!
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Pedro Paris & Marco Romero

Academy of Kandengue Scientists

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The Academy of Kandendgue Scientists is a technology-based start-up that empowers children and adults from 5 to 25 years of age, instilling the seed of inventive and technological skills from an early age. Enabling children to discover their own potential helps them to avoid bad practices, such as drugs, prostitution and delinquency, and envisages a society that is technologically well prepared for future challenges, and perhaps even a renewed Africa.
Formed in 2017 by Professor and Inventor Pedro Paris (telecommunications technician) and Aeronautical Engineer Marco Romero, the project aims to provide more opportunities for children and young people without access to education.
In 2012, an ordinary residence in Viana in the province of Luanda was transformed into a laboratory, an explanatory and preparatory centre, and 5 years later the idea was born to include children who lacked the opportunity to access education, but who, like others, had the enormous potential to become “Kandengue Scientists”. The Academy already has the involvement of around 80 Kandengues aged from 6 to 30 years, of which 30 are now tutors with more than 5 years of experience, having been trained by Professor Pedro Paris.

​KANDENGUE VISION: To transform children and adults from Angola, Africa and the World into budding scientists and professional IT technicians, so they can provide solutions to the problems of their community and country.
​KANDENGUE MISSION: To bring sustainable technologies to the neediest communities, occupying the spare time of children and adults with art, education and sustainable technology.
KANDENGUE VALUES: Discipline, Love, Patriotism
In recent years, more than 976 children and adults from private and public schools, and foster homes throughout the nation have learned the basics of electronics, robotics, programming, game development, applications, aeronautics and space technology, thanks to the “Kandengue Scientists”. Changes in the lives of many families can already be felt, having received the tools and knowledge needed to put bread on their tables, having access to schools and universities, and solving community problems.
The financial and logistical difficulties for ensuring better conditions for the children in the development of educational activities are initially resolved by the tutors, who create teaching methods and materials tailored to existing conditions, for example, reusing electronic waste for e-learning and the creation of decorative and visual arts. Partnerships with public entities have already taken place in 2019 and 2020, such as with the network of Angolan media libraries, Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technologies (MTTI), National Technology Centre, Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESCTI), BusCenter, Unitel, Methodist University of Angola, and the Seaka Center (Angolan Spiritualist Society Allan Kardec), in which the academy made available 10 professors to help the institution with a lack of teaching staff.
Some of our KEY SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES are:
  1. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD: Technology event that takes place in poor communities or in foster homes and schools to provide a special day with education, science and sustainable technology (exhibition of technological products).
  2. KANDENGUE 4.0: An initiative designed to provide teaching techniques in sustainable robotics and automation to teachers and company technicians in the telecommunications and electronics sector, anticipating Industry 4.0, which has as its sustainable basis IOT (internet of things) and artificial intelligence (A.I).
  3. PROGRAMMING AT MY SCHOOL: An initiative designed to insert programming into general and private education institutions from the primary education level and up, with a day of programming and lots of fun.
  4. HOME CLASSES AND COURSES: Electronics, Programming, Mathematics and Physics.
  5. BUS CENTER: School bus giving mobility to enable Kandengue Scientists to bring peace, science and technology to increasingly distant places.​
And below are just some of the ideas and projects the Kandengue Scientists have been developing:
  • Energy production from fruit
  • Energy production from saltwater
  • Home automation (controlling household appliances, gates and generators with handclaps, remote, mobile phone and desktop computer)
  • Road accident controller (Zero accident)
  • Fuel and water level controller
  • Happy motorcyclist safe journey (intelligent helmet)
  • Product irrigation and drying system via mobile phone
  • Learning mathematics through play (Apps)
  • Home security and public security system (gunshot detection)
“innovations arise from simple ideas that fully resolve the observed problem”
If you would like to know more about the Kandengue Scientists and the wonderful work they do in Angola,
do get in touch with Marco Romero at - [email protected]

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