This document describes a student initiative aimed at improving education and healthcare globally. The initiative is comprised of PhD students from various disciplines and countries who have designed projects like "Do It Yourself" tools for experimental classes in places with limited budgets, and "Aladin's Lamp" for distant healthcare diagnosis using existing mobile networks. They aim to gather information on challenges in education, develop low-cost classroom tools, and test their solutions to help improve access to quality education and healthcare worldwide.

1. 1
A
student
ini+a+ve
to
help
educa+on
and
health
in
the
world.
h6ps://sites.google.com/site/fdvscidev/

2. Who are we?
Kévin
2
France
PhD
student-­‐
Microfluidics
Yasmine
Thomas
France
Bangladesh/France
Graduated-­‐Informa+cs
Sabrina
Undegrad
in
economics
Algeria
PhD
student-­‐Chemistry
Karla
Segolene
Guatemala
France
Luc
France
PhD
student-­‐Microfluidics
PhD
student-­‐Epidemiology
Graduated-­‐Nanotechnology
Jonathan
Gabriel
Alexander
Mauri0us
France
USA/Armenia
PhD
student-­‐Biophysics
PhD
student-­‐Ecology
PhD
in
biology

3. Frontières du vivant FdV
3
• An international interdisciplinary PhD program;
• promoting research projects centered on an
understanding of Life ;
• recruits students from all over the world that were
trained in any discipline.
• part of the "Liliane Bettencourt program" created and
funded by the Bettencourt-Schuller Foundation
h6p://www.fdv-­‐paris.org/en/ecole-­‐doctorale-­‐fdv/

4. The Millennium Development Goals
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Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8: Develop global partnerships for development

5. Our projects
5
• Do It Your Self for experimental classes:
• Map the difficulties in education around the
world
• Design non expensive tools for experimental
classes.
• Aladin’s Lamp for Healthcare:
• Design a distant diagnosis tool using the
extended network of mobile phones existing in
many developing countries.

6. Aladin’s lamp for Health Care:
A distant diagnosis tool
6
Advice

7. Secondary Education Spending (average/child)
7
www.worldmapper.org
©
Copyright
2006
SASI
Group
(University
of
Sheffield)
and
Mark
Newman
(University
of
Michigan)

8. Do it your self?
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“building,
modifying,
or
repairing
of
something
without
the
aid
of
experts”
-
Low
cost
-
Sustainable
Useful
for
school?

9. Do It Your Self tools for school
Step 1: Map the difficulties
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4000
$/year/class
No
budget
<
500
$/year/class
~30
students
/class
~30
students
/class
~30
students
/class
Weekly
Weekly
Weekly
No
prac+cals
No
budget
<
500
$/year/class
50
students
/class
30
students
/class
>30
students
/class
Monthly
Monthly

10. What would you do with 500 $/year/class?
10
Half a laptop?
Five (good)
science books?
Two
chemical
titration
Four optical protocols?
microscopes?

11. The idea
11
Design easy and non expensive protocols to help
teachers in their daily work
Example: what would you do with a banana ?
Eat it is a solution but not the right answer

12. DNA extraction !
12
©
Paris-­‐Montagne

13. Do It Your Self tools for school?
The project:
13
• Gather data from the questionnaires
• Design useful protocols for teachers
• Design a dedicated website to gather them
• Test the tools in Paris suburbs before sending them to
parteners.
So please help us, so that we can help education!!

14. Science education in third world countries
Case study: Armenia
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Satistics on Armenia
Total Population: 3.1 million
Number of Percent Percent of Total
Students enrolled in:
Students Female Student Body
Higher Education 114,629 53% -
Biology & Chemistry 1,398 25% 1.2%
Physics 3,707 39% 3.2%
Other Sciences
8,376 48% 7.3%
(Medicine, etc.)
Students receiving a College Degree in the Sciences:
- Armenia: 10%
- USA: 11%
- World Average: 23%

15. What science education is missing
15

16. Excellence in teaching and
collaboration among educators
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• Provide Professional Development opportunities
to educators K-12
• Become a Community of Change
• Foster Educator/Researchers
• Pay it Forward
A non-profit organization focussed on
understanding and creating solutions for social
issues in Armenia

17. Conclusion(s)
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• Act, by:
o Applying our knowledge
o To improve education and health conditions
o And propose sustainable solutions
«
The
aim
of
educa+on
should
be
the
shaping
of
an
individual
able
to
act
socially
»
[L’éduca)on
doit
se
donner
comme
objec)f
primordial
la
forma)on
d’un
individu
capable,
non
de
subir,
mais
d’agir
socialement.]
Pierre
Trinquier
"Le
Mé+er
d'ins+tuteur"
(Casterman,
1979)

18. Aknowledgements
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We
thank:
You,
for
your
kind
a6en+on
FdV
and
the
CRI
for
the
support
And
all
the
people
who
contributed
to
the
projects
Ian
Lee
Tin
Wah
for
the
logo

19. Facts:
 In France/Lower classes (suburbs of  In US/public/lower classes
Paris)  Less than 500 euros/class/year
 Around 4000 euros/class/year  10 to 30 students /class
 Around 30 students /class  Weekly (2 days minimum)
 Weekly practicals  Enough time for practicals
 Teachers ok with the available  Enough device/apparatus
device/apparatus
 Evaluation: by the teacher
 Evaluation: by the teacher + exams
(eg BAC)
 Specialized teachers
 In Armenia/Public/poor classes
 Less than 500 euros/class/year
 More than 30 students /class
 Monthly
 Enough time for practicals
 Not Enough device/apparatus
 Evaluation: by the teacher

20.  In Cameroon:
 In Senegal:
 No budget
 Less than 500 euros/class/year
 > 30 students /class
 Around 50 students /class
 Working class
 Primary teachers do everything
 Monthly
 Weekly
 Not enough time for practicals
 Not enough time for practicals
 Not enough device/apparatus
 Not enough device/apparatus
 Evaluation: by the teacher
 Evaluation: by the teacher
 In Bangladesh/Pakistan/Middle Class
 No budget
 Around 30 students /class
 Weekly
 Not enough time for practicals
 Not enough device/apparatus
 Evaluation: by the teacher