At their stand under the marquee the Uconnect team showed the documentary film about the project broadcast by UTV last December, Uconnect Schools Project: Bringing ICTs to Uganda’s Rural Schools.

Project Coordinator, Joan Amaniyo describes the project to a visiting teacher

The team distributed FAQ sheets about the project, including costs for purchasing recycled computing equipment, SchoolAxxess server, training and a variety of connectivity solutions.  They also distributed the ISOC's On The Internet and I-Network's newletter.

Students used the SchoolAxxess server's Librarian search engine to find web pages of interest to them from among the thousands stored in its web cache - including many multimedia sites.

A young lady from Nabisunsa is trying out one of the full-motion interactive training videos that come with the server.

As part of its promotion of enhancing development and education through ICTs, Uconnect displayed some of the HP e-education pamphlets depicting schools-based community telecentres such as have already been set up in Ishaka, Mbale and Moroto.  Students from Mengo SS asked Joan to explain how their school could make better use of their computer lab. 

Faith invited her friend, Evelyn, from Nabisunsa to come to our stand to pick up some brochures about the project.  Nabisunsa had their own stand at the exhibit, on which they showed how their school was training students in entrepreneurship skills through agricultural projects such as growing pleurotis mushrooms and chickens.

We were honoured to welcome the Assistant Commissioner Secondary, Mr. Robinson, who is a regular visitor to our education ministry workshops.

Sophy discusses with SchoolsFora Director, Grant Itabaza, possibilities for collaboration.

Some of the Uconnect education team, Sophy, Faith, Francis, Joan, Susan, Sam, Billy and Janet.