Engineering and Science

Last night the mama I was talking to was telling me about how engineers in TZ are not awarded for their hard work so most TZ people end up going into the arts and commerce as it is easier to study and they end up making more. There were more details to the talk, but I can't go into it here on my blog. Today afternoon some other woman was telling me the same thing and that she would like to change that, she would like to see more and more students go into science and engineering. And to that effect she would like the government to encourage this by creating more research opportunities and to encourage secondary students to go into math/science.

On that note I found these opportunities for higher learning institutions to get funds after talking to the mama about USAID, this is especially important here in TZ. The institute I work at might have a computer lab but here they have no where near the equipment that higher institutions of learning have in the States:

http://www.africa-initiative.org/

http://cit.aed.org/center.htm

http://hedprogram.org/