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Sustainable EXPANSION
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 12/12/2018
» Last year, Swedish edtech start-up Strawbees arrived in Thailand, bringing with it its simple but innovative tools for science and technology learning. Through a partnership with Aksorn Nex, the digital unit of Bangkok-based Aksorn Education, its kits are being made widely available in order to encourage creativity while promoting the concept of sustainability.
A home-grown coding toy
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 13/06/2018
» Tassagorn Sirisuwan, 12, first experienced a KidBright digital board when his father's friends brought it to the workshop for kids at his home a few months ago. Since then, the boy has always worked on the board, designing simple computer programs to control home appliances.
Upskilling a generation
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 28/02/2018
» Although computer science is thought of as a difficult, complicated subject, it's actually a basic aspect of everyday life. Now a programme has been initiated to give underprivileged and disabled youth a chance to access computer science education.
All the new toys
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 08/02/2017
» One of the largest events of its kind in Thailand, Inventors' Day 2017, which wrapped last Monday, showed off brand-new inventions and their creators' competence.
Programming in the mountains
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 11/03/2015
» The Mae Hong Son IT Valley project is a collaboration between public agencies, private companies and local communities to broaden job diversity and improve opportunities for young people in the remote mountainous province.
A new modern age
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 18/02/2015
» Supak Sudsawad, 81, often used to watch her daughter playing with a tablet, but had no idea how it worked. Unlike other elderly people who perhaps believed technology was something they could never understand, however, Supak usually asks her daughter how the device works. She only wished she could learn how to benefit from it.