ARES Model Schools: moving digital learning from the lab into the classroom
Starting January 2027, five pilot schools will use ARES in every classroom, every day, with lesson plans, live quizzes and progress tracking built with SeaVuria.
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How ARES teacher training and support work
Hardware is the easy part. Training, maintenance and follow-up are what make ARES succeed.
Partnering with SeaVuria
SeaVuria's STEM lesson plans and teacher programs are joining ARES, starting with the Model Schools pilot.
Why ARES works offline
Internet access is expensive, unreliable and unsafe for most rural schools, so ARES was designed to run without it.
What's inside an ARES server?
Khan Academy, Wikipedia, the full Kenyan curriculum, 11 years of KCSE exams and much more, all offline.
A Kenyan teacher's mission to wire his school for the future
At Tigithi Boys, physics results are rising and students refuse to go home on ARES days.
Teaching Tomorrow Today at Lechugu Senior School
A school with no electricity, teachers carrying laptops 8 km to charge them, and exam scores that kept climbing.
Small Decisions, Big Effects
Celebrating 33 years of Afretech: how one near-empty bookshelf in Zimbabwe led to ARES.
Announcing the ARES Expansion Project: 100 systems in three years
Partners are joining forces to bring ARES to 70 new schools and expand it at 30 more.
An ARES lab for the Laikipia County Community Library, in memory of Carol Hogan
The library Carol and Sean Hogan helped install in 2011 gained an ARES computer lab dedicated to Carol.
Visiting Loise Secondary School
A stop at Loise Secondary School's computer lab during the January 2023 school visits.
A visit to Likii Mixed Day Secondary School
Setting up and checking ARES at Likii Mixed Day Secondary School in Laikipia East.
News
Planning the next chapter of ARES
Partners and volunteers met in Kenya in January 2023 to plan how ARES grows.
Research
2021 impact assessment: better exam results in ARES schools
Principals, teachers and students from 11 Ol Pejeta community schools reported on what ARES has changed.
Projects
Libraries and ARES labs for schools in the Philippines
In February 2020 Afretech installed school libraries in four schools and ARES labs in three.
Research
What 95 teachers told us about ARES and ICT
A 2019 survey of teachers in Ol Pejeta community schools found that nearly all use ICT, and most use ARES in their lessons.