Activity 2-unit 2-update 2024. English translation
Here comes the sun (ppt)
1. Here Comes the Sun
Solar Classroom Project
Tmatboey, Cambodia
“Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful
weapons.”
Malala Yousafzai
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the
world.”
Nelson Mandela
6. Tmatboey, Cambodia
• Population 1180 (314 families)
• One Primary School (200 students)
• One Secondary School (200 students)
• 100 miles northeast of Siem Reap
12. The Problem
• Both schools lack electricity
• Both schools lack technology (laptop,
printer, internet, ESL tapes, speakers,
projector)
• Students receive an inferior education
13. The Solution
• Solar panels provide the requisite
energy to bring the classrooms into the
21st century
• Laptop + software for each teacher
• Printer for each school
• English Language tapes + speakers
• Projector
14. The Challenge
• Designing Solar Classroom Package
• Solar panels, wiring, charging area
• Laptops, printer, projector
• Climate matters (heat & humidity, flooding, lightning,
rainy season, global warming)
• Children & livestock in the school yard
• Delivery of Solar Classroom Package
• Easy to Ship
• Easy to Install (no IT people; no English spoken)
• Easy to Replicate (other schools in Cambodia &
abroad)
15.
16. 3 Books & 2 Films
• Books
• Cambodia’s Curse (Joel Brinkley)
• “A Problem from Hell”: America &
the Age of Genocide (Samantha
Power)
• Films
• The Killing Fields (1984)
• The Missing Picture (2013)
