ABOUT US

The Centre for Science and Technology Innovations (CSTI) is a Trust registered in 1998 by the Registrar of Societies under the Trustees Act Chapter 167, Laws of Kenya. It is located at the Kenya National Academy of Sciences, Utalii House, Utalii Street, 8th Floor, Nairobi, Kenya.

It has six Trustees, namely:
  • Prof. Shem O. Wandiga - Managing Trustee
  • Prof. Eric O. Odada - Trustee
  • Justice Prof. Jacton B. Ojwang - Trustee
  • Dr. Maggie Opondo - Trustee
  • Dr. Dan Olago - Trustee
  • Dr. Gilbert Ouma - Trustee

 

The Centre for Science has been working towards the improvement of science teaching and learning by holding training workshops for teachers in different provinces in the country.

 

The Centre is appealing for donors to help needy schools purchase the kits, on its part, the Centre will facilitate the training of teachers and technical back up on the microscience kits and experiments at no extra cost to the donor or the school.

 

How to Budget for a School

  • Ideally one equipment kit per learner; the minimum recommended ratio is 1kit to four learners. The cost of one kit is Kshs. 640/-
  • One Chemical Kit will suffice for 50 - 100 learners for a period of one year. Individual bottles may also be replenished. The cost of one Chemicals Kit is Kshs 6,500/-
For more info contact Prof. Shem O Wandiga

 

The aims of the Centre are:

• To promote innovation in science teaching at the secondary and tertiary education levels through the incorporation of new trends in the sciences.

• To enhance the transfer of science and technology research to distressed communities of Kenya for economic development.

• To promote constructive linkages between science and industry for the enhancement of economic development.

• To carry out any other or further activity that is incidental or ancillary to the above.

• To promote the effective use of science and technology in the food production process.

• To facilitate initiatives to achieve greater efficiency through the adoption of good scientific principles in the provision of various categories of service.

• To promote the use of information and communication technology in the promotion of science and technology.

• To collaborate with other centres with similar objectives and aims.

• To act as a clearing house of knowledge and skills between researchers/research institutions and end-users, including policy makers.

• To perform any other duty furthering the development, promotion and dissemination of science and technology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Proposed Future Activities:
The three East African countries, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have participated to certain degrees of success in the initial phase of our microscience project.

Tanzania has only had its union partner Zanzibar participates. Mainland Tanzania has not had experience with the microscience learning and reading materials. It is proposed that given the liberalization of the education sector in the three countries a new approach to the microscience be adopted. At present the governments of the three countries provide financial resources to schools directly for the purchase of educational learning materials.

Activities

The government only approves the reading and learning materials. The schools decide from the approved list materials they want to purchase.

Under such marketing practice, it is advisable that we establish microscience schools learning centres analogous to the community e-centres which UNESCO has established in countries like Uganda. The proposed centres would have facilities for student learning and experimenting, exhibition of various microscience kits for sale to students and parents as their way of contributing to the sustainability of the centre. As an added attraction, development of virtual experiments shall be developed and placed at the centres. The students shall be charged a small fee for membership. Such centres shall be duplicated in the three countries if found successful. It is estimated that to do this and equip the centre fully as well as acquire a building for the centre in Kenya, we need to raise US$150,000.

This proposal is presented to the workshop for consideration and approval.