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Jerry Li: Empowering People to Thrive in a Technological Future

Jerry Li: Empowering People to Thrive in a Technological Future
Jerry: Happy to cruise with you, Spiffy! At INCIPE, there are a few challenges we would like to solve. For starters, the majority of programming courses only promote passive learning, with no margin for understanding, brainstorming, or unleashing students’ creativity. Moreover, designs for educational kits are generally dull and difficult for students to apply to their daily lives.

Henry Donahue: Helping Communities Reach Their Full Potential through Music

Henry Donahue: Helping Communities Reach Their Full Potential through Music

Henry: Glad to be with you, Spiffy! Save The Music's mission is helping students, schools, and communities reach their full potential through the power of making music. Working with public schools across the US, we donate musical instruments, teacher training, and technology to jump start hundreds of new school music programs each year. We know from 25 years of experience across thousands of schools that music helps young people feel better and do better in school and in life!

Alikhan Madibekov: Supporting Inclusive and Equitable Access to Sex Education

Alikhan Madibekov: Supporting Inclusive and Equitable Access to Sex Education

Alikhan: The pleasure is mine, Spiffy! Teenagers worldwide don't have much access to sexual education—schools hardly organize enough sessions to teach them, and educators lack engaging tools, which makes the lesson often awkward and dull. In Central Asia (and not only), people also can't talk about the stigmatized topic (“Shh, sex!”) openly, and that doesn't seem right. It increases the chances of getting STDs, STIs, and getting rights violated.