Gas/CO2 Detector
The system uses a sensor to measure air quality. Once gas/CO2 is detected, it sends a signal to a relay, to turn on a speaker, which then warns the people in the room with a loud noise.
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Hackatons for the Impossible Project
Between September and October 2023, TDF organized 10 school-based hackathons to train 800 Code Club students in project brainstorming (problem/solution finding) and creative thinking. The top 30 Code Club leaders (53% are girls) received advanced training, including leadership, critical thinking, problem solving, and project management. Each of them was supported and coached by a mentor from the university and a mentor from a relevant/IT company to enhance their strengths, learning potential, and career paths, especially in the technology sector.
Following these training workshops, 70 proposals for technology-based innovative ideas/solutions were submitted to TDF by October 2023. Of the 70 teams, 40 eligible teams (including 25 teams of secondary and high school students and 15 teams of university students) were selected to participate in the incubation boot camp.
The bootcamp is a two-month event where the participants will be teamed up with mentors (from universities and industry) who will guide them through the steps of starting a business, including developing initial ideas, testing hypotheses, customer journey, business model, etc. All teams will receive a small grant to build a prototype of their project that can be tested by customers.
By mid-November, the top 12 teams will be selected to participate in the final round of the business model competition in early December 2023.
See more of the innovative projects the Code Club students develop here: https://dariu.org/digital-literacy-en/code-clubs-en/projekte-en/
INNOVATIVE TRANSPORT ROBOT
An intelligent robot designed for use in hospitals and high risk isolation areas.
How does it work?
The robot is equipped with an arm, a storage compartment and a navigation system, and is controlled by WiFi navigation.
When something needs to be transported to a specific area/room, hospital staff place the item on the tray and enter the destination. The robot then travels to the designated location and notifies both the recipient to pick up the items and the sender that the items have been delivered. Along the way, it can also pick up other items, as long as they have the same destination.
The notifications are sent to the users/senders via a Telegram account.
Movable House
When looking at the container library donated by The Dariu Foundation at his schoolyard, Cuong Tran, 14 years old, told his classmate Phu Nguyen that he wished the container library were movable, so that they could move it from school to school. They decided to develop a movable house as their summer project. Micro:bit is used as the central controlling system to connect and control other external sensors such as lighting, humidity and proximity, and motor servo. A light sensor is used to transfer a signal to the Micro:bit for automatic lighting; a humidity sensor is used for watering, and pumping; a motor servo is utilized for opening/closing the main doors. “Our dream was to make a house that’s able to fly like a drone,” said Cuong Tran.
School Toilets
School toilets often has three problems: electricity and water waste and smoke (illegal smoking)
by students. Our group developed a Micro:bit-based project to solve these problems.
The system has two functions:
- All fans and lamps are connected to motion sensors, and the ventilation and lighting system
are only switched on when the users move. - Cigarette smoke sensors are installed in the restrooms, and as soon as smoke is detected, the alarm goes off and sends an alert to the manager at the same time
Future upgrade: Our team would like to upgrade the water supply with hand sensors so that water only flows when users put their hand to the faucet. At the same time, the water runoff from the sink will be used to irrigate the school garden.
Smart Bed
All the patient’s information, such as blood pressure, pulse etc. are monitored and appear on the screen, next to the bed. The system sends a warning signal to the attending doctor/staff, if any of these stats are irregular and/or of concern.
TDF partners with Qualcomm and Bread for the World to strengthen digital literacy education in rural Vietnam
The Dariu Foundation, in partnership with the Union of Friendship Organization and the Department of Education and Training of An Giang Province, is celebrating the provision of nearly 1,500 laptops to 45 rural schools in Vietnam to strengthen efforts to teach basic digital skills to children in rural areas of Vietnam.
The laptops will be delivered to schools and code clubs in the targeted regions for digital literacy training and digital crafts. The Digital Literacy Initiative project was launched by TDF in 2011 to provide laptops to schools that do not yet have computers/laptops, provide training opportunities to local IT teachers, and provide equal access to digital development facilities for talented rural students through code clubs.
Since 2011, TDF has been providing laptops to 150 rural schools, training 14,000 local IT teachers, and providing access to digital education to approximately 1.5 million students in 10 provinces in Vietnam.
Qualcomm’s Wireless Reach has donated over 3,000 laptops to TDF since 2020 and BftW will join our efforts as from 2023.
Smart control system for sturgeon farm
Sturgeons require moderate temperatures for ideal growth and ample supply of clean water.
Local farmers often use stream water from high mountain, for which it is difficult to control the cleanliness/
clarity of supply water. Therefore, they spend a lot of time controlling the water supply manually. Our team offers a smart solution for this problem.
How does it work?
Sensors are installed to measure the cleanliness/clarity of the water. At a previously fixed level, the valves will be opened to supply water into the pool of
sturgeons. If the water is not clear, the valves will remain closed. If the valves are closed for a certain period of
time, the system will send an alarm to the farmers, so that they
can find a different source of water supply for the fish pools.
Fostering digital skills in Laos and Cambodia
Swisscontact – a leading organization in the implementation of skills development projects in developing and emerging countries – and The Dariu Foundation together are launching an initiative to promote digital skills among youth in Laos and Cambodia.
Without education, young people in the Global South are often condemned to a life of poverty. Swisscontact believes that the development of skills – in particular digital skills – is crucial for social integration and economic development, thus helping to reduce poverty over the long term. Education enables young people to find jobs or start their own businesses and enhances overall employment. It reduces youth unemployment and brings stability to fragile contexts.
Swisscontact has entered into a partnership with The Dariu Foundation to offer young people in Laos and Cambodia the opportunity to learn digital skills. Across rural areas of the Global South, The Dariu Foundation trains over 400,000 young men and women in programme courses, mostly in Vietnam up to now, and more recently in Bhutan and Malaysia as well. In this manner, youth are given the opportunity to work and earn income. Laos and Cambodia are two of the new countries of focus in which the Dariu Foundation will be working with Swisscontact to offer these courses to young people.
“For Swisscontact, this partnership with the Dariu Foundation represents an enrichment and useful expansion of what we can offer in the field of education and entrepreneurship for young people in the global South.” Philippe Schneuwly, CEO Swisscontact
Swisscontact has been working around the world for decades to help young people start their professional lives through training and skills development. Our partnership with the Dariu Foundation constitutes a useful expansion of this effort and also allows us to achieve more of the Agenda 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs).
“The collaboration with Swisscontact is an ideal partnership for us. We can count on Swisscontact’s local know-how and concentrate on our core skills.” Thomas Trüb, Founder and Chairman of the Dariu Foundation
POWER SUPPLY CONTROL
We have noticed at our school that students leave their classrooms without turning off the lights and fans and leaving the doors open. This leads to a waste of electricity. Therefore, our team decided to develop a project where the lights and fans are automatically switched on and off and the classroom doors are closed or opened via I.o.T.
In all public areas, the lighting is set to turn on and off at a specific time, based on daylight sensors. In the classrooms, the lights and fans are switched on and off at a specific time and according to lesson times. The fans are also set to turn on and off based on the temperatures in the classrooms via temperature sensors.
Additionally, we installed movement sensors: when there is movement, the sensors send signals to the computer centre to turn on the lights and fans and to close or open the classroom doors.
