empowers hands-on learning around the world

PEN provides a teacher training program infused with MIT-style learning-by-doing to promote hands-on science regardless of resource constraints

‘Around 250 million children are not learning basic skills, even though half of them have spent at least four years in school… Investing in teachers is key: in around a third of countries, less than 75% of primary school teachers are trained according to national standards.’ (UNESCO Global Monitoring Report 2013/14)

Hands-on science and curricula with real-world relevance improve student engagement and learning outcomes.

PEN offers a series of workshops where STEM trainers learn, design, and share hands-on activities which complement the national curriculum and are created from low-cost and locally available materials.

We’d be delighted to answer any further questions you have at pen@mit.edu.

2015 MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Competition, Grand Prize
2012 IEEE/IBM Smarter Planet Challenge, Best Curriculum
2011 MIT IDEAS Global Challenge, Global Village Award