About Us
Digital Classroom
Uganda Schools Project
In September 2026, POE visited Mukono Primary School to deliver a Digital Classroom (DC) that we designed to bring high-tech off-line learning to a school with no internet. We brought 50 tablets and servers that provided access to all of their curriculum plus allowed for local language/English translation capabilities for all text and videos. Although English is the official language, in their homes and for the first few years of school, students speak their local language. The ability to translate to their small local language online was only made possible recently. See https://mukonoclass.org for details and to explore the classroom. See below for photos and more details about our DC program.
Digital Classroom 2026
First Day Using the Digital Classroom
After our visit in 2024, it became very clear to us that one of the main obstacles to students performing well on the PLE exam was their fluency in English. English is the official language in Uganda so all testing is in English and English fluency is key to accessing higher education. The local language spoken at Mukono School is either Runyankole or Rukiga. The Digital Classroom developed by POE teaches the students English and has speech recognition, translation between English and Runyankole/Rukiga, text to speech in multiple languages, exam prep, educational videos with captions in both languages as well as all their textbooks across core subjects. This all runs on local servers, without internet.
In April 2026 we delivered a prototype of the Digital Classroom (DC) and in September we got on a plane and brought enough tablets for an entire class. After 7 months of weekly Zoom calls it was amazing to see all the teachers in person and complete their training on the DC and introduce it to the students! Most homes do not have any form of electricity and none have running water, so the tablets are very new and exciting for the students. We are paying for 2 teachers to get a degree in IT so they can help support the DC. We visited a total of 8 schools on our trip, visiting our scholars at their high schools, sharing ideas about the DC, best practices and getting ideas for what we can do better. One of the schools we visited is now implementing the DC in their school as well. (Luckily we brought extra servers with us to share!)
If you would like to visit Mukono School, check out this video…
https://youtu.be/dOeONv3QHlo
If you are thinking of donating, check out this video…
https://youtu.be/DbULkDJTmd4
Link to our donation page…
https://poescholarships.org/get-involved/donate/