INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION OF WOMEN SCIENTISTS IN KENYA Dr Esther Maina showing Loresho Secondary students how to use a micropipette during one of the sessions of the mock COVID19 vaccination experiment carried out as part of the science outreach activities.…
Background To date, several challenges hindering the development of women in science have been identified. In Africa, the ‘leaking pipeline’ already starts in primary school education, with few girls progressing to secondary school and even fewer towards tertiary education. Several…
Impact To Date The pilot programme trained 7 scientists from Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon and Zambia and later expanded to South Africa, Uganda and Ethiopia, bringing the total to 12 trained members. Since the programme’s launch in March 2019, the ASOP…
Research The interactive hands-on experimental workshop is a 3hr facilitated practical session with several sections designed to interactively engage 40 students per session to give the students an opportunity to carry out hands-on experiments using modern scientific analytical tools used…