SHREE SUNAULA SECONDARY SCHOOL



About THE sCHOOL





Shree Sunaula Secondary School is located in Bajrabarahi Kunchhal, Thaha -1 Municipality, Tistung in Makwanpur district. This place is also known as Daman, a popular tourist site, which is three hours away from the Kathmandu Valley. Established on 2032, it currently has about 400 students taught in 16 classrooms. Its SLC pass rate was 70% in 2017. The school already has few desktop computers to teach some 200 students from grades 4-8. However, this is by no means sufficient to teach computer courses effectively and comprehensively to the 200 students.



Project Partner





This is the second school where an eLab was installed in partnership with the Rotary Club of Kathmandu West. eBlackboard is very happy to announce that RC KTM West has committed to install two eLabs every year going forward in partnership with us. This has now become one of their ongoing flagship projects in the education sector. This year we will be working together to enhance our operational framework to make greater impacts on the learning environment of the students of the beneficiary schools.



The implementation





A survey was conducted and the beneficiary school evaluation form was completed to allow the Rotary Club and eBlackbaoard to make a formal assessment. Since the Rotary Club was opening their first satellite Rotary Club in the same location, it made sense to select this school. A meeting was subsequently arranged with the school staff to provide information on the project, what the school's roles and responsibilities will be and what are the expectations from the school to ensure maximum benefit to the learning experience of their students.





The Rotary Club conducted a dry run of the six sets of Raspberry Pi and new monitors in Kathmandu prior to taking them to the beneficiary school installation site. The complete hardware package was initially handed over to the Principal of school, and then installed in a separate room. The school also provided the furniture required for the lab.





The school staff eagerly helped the Rotary Club members during the installation process. This basically involved connecting the monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers to the Raspberry Pi boxes and providing the AC power through a network of power extensions chords having surge protection. The Raspberry Pi only uses 5 Watts of power and less only 1 Amp current which it provides through an adapter connected to the extension wire.





With the assistance of the school staff and Rotary members, the computer lab was assembled in one hour. Each Raspberry Pi card had its own micro SD card loaded with interactive digital content (ePaath) based on national curriculum for grades 2-8. This allows students to access the digital modules for their respective grade without internet access. Some of the lucky students got the opportunity to try out the software as soon as the installation was completed as seen in the picture on the right.





All six computer terminals were then powered by switching on all the power extension chords. All of the terminals showed the landing page of ePaath where a student can select his/her grade and the subject s/he likes to learn. A quick demo was provided to the school staff which included two computer teachers on how to initiate the ePaath software.



the implementation was a success



Final check prior to handover



Performing final test of all computer terminals prior to handover to the school.



School Principal collecting information



Explaining how the interactive tool works and all its features



first hands-on experience



Students get the opportunity to try out the ePaath software first-hand upon the completion of installation



system handover



The complete hardware package was handed over to the school principal prior to installation



installation time



Performing final check of all computer terminals prior to handover the the school principal



students get their first hand experience



Students get the opportunity to play around the interactive tool which just got installed in the schools lab



getting some help



Student get some help from the computer teacher during the first trial



FINAL check during installation



School staff ensuring the software is working as expected after all the wiring is completed during installation




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