Samar Education Innovation Sandbox Program 2025-2028

To advance Samar's ambition to have a future-ready talent pipeline, the EduImpact Lab is launching the Education Innovation Sandbox Program.  

Teams from local schools, universities, and organizations are invited to participate by designing startup ventures to pitch to possible investors. High school and college teachers are invited to participate as EduImpact Lab Teaching Fellows and implement design thinking activities to actively guide student projects. Using the Bridging Leadership, Futures Thinking, Human Centered Design, and Lean Startup methodologies, student teams work on solving Makati's problem sets as curricular or co-curricular projects. 

This initiative aims to bring together DEPED/private school teachers and students, Sangguniang Kabataan Officers, universities, local organizations, and other education advocates into a productive innovation ecosystem.

Main Objectives: 

1. cultivate a thriving research and innovation culture among high schools and universities and equip them with thinking skills for the 21st Century 

2. harness the problem-solving capacities of public school students through the Supreme Student Governments and Research Teachers

3. Co-create and prototype real-world solutions that address Makati's educational opportunities and gaps 

The Education Impact Lab is a cross-disciplinary network of education advocates, experts, civil servants, educators, civil society organizations, and private sector actors who work in different parts of the education value chains.  

Technology alone is not enough to transform the education sector, and too often, resources are indiscriminately thrown at problems without understanding what actually works. Furthermore, technology can't simply be transferred from developed countries to resource-limited settings, as solutions that work in one context, usually need to be adapted to be sustainable in another locale.

Using the Bridging Leadership framework, we engage multidisciplinary teams from universities and organizations and work together on the ground to develop technological, social, governance, and instructional innovations that can scale up to address the needs of at least 10 million learners.  

Source: Adapted from the Sana program at MIT     https://sana.mit.edu/about 

Innovation Tracks

Reference:

Juan Miguel Luz  (2022) 

Sample Education Innovation Challenge