Introduction

The success of MIT-AITI during the past summers has been measured by the number of students we trained, the quality of work they produced, and our impact on involved teachers and communities. We have succeeded in educating over 700 students and nearly 50 teachers. Furthermore, we have evaluated their understanding of the material presented through their final projects and examinations. Some of our outstanding students from the past summers have obtained jobs in the information technology sector in Kenya.

In the summer of 2006, we intend to train a minimum of 200 students and 20 local teachers. We are confident that our students would acquire valuable programming skills. We will measure their knowledge through examinations as well as community-oriented final projects. A successful MIT-AITI project in the summer of 2005 would provide valuable service experience for MIT student interns, and provide African students with computer programming skills. Furthermore, it will augment African teacher's knowledge in web development tools, advance African pedagogy and curriculum development in important and innovative technologies such as ASP.net and open-source Linux, and advance our goal of reaching out and impacting communities through information technology.