Workshops

Drone Bootcamp for Emergency Health Logistics

Trains health and logistics professionals to plan, operate, and simulate emergency deliveries using drones in rural or hard-to-reach regions. Hands-on modules are designed to strengthen real-time response, build confidence in drone tech, and simulate emergency health logistics, preparing communities for crisis-readiness.

DIY Air Quality Sensors & Civic Data Mapping

Empowers citizens to take control of local environmental data through hands-on sensor building and neighborhood-level mapping. Workshop promotes awareness, agency, and data-driven advocacy in response to rising pollution challenges.

Building Trust: Tech Ethics Roleplay Workshop

A highly interactive session where participants roleplay as stakeholders in complex tech scenarios�e.g., data misuse, surveillance, or unintended harms�to build empathy and ethical design instincts in decision-making around tech in public life.

Rapid Prototyping with Local Materials Lab

This grassroots maker workshop blends low-cost innovation with tech ideation. Participants create prototypes for climate/health/agri use-cases using everyday or discarded materials, fostering frugal innovation, circular economy practices, and local creativity.

AI for Agriculture: Field-to-Code Workshop

Makes AI accessible for grassroots agricultural actors by connecting field reality with ML potential. Participants gather their own data and apply simple AI models to address yield estimation, disease detection, or supply chain decisions.

Citizen Drone Mapping for Disaster Readiness

Focuses on empowering communities with aerial data capabilities for disaster preparedness. Participants map their own regions and overlay risk data to create early warning tools and evacuation plans. Workshop enables proactive planning using low-cost tech.

Build4Good: Student Challenge Workshop

A hands-on innovation challenge where students work in teams to ideate and build working solutions to health, climate, or education challenges using basic tech tools (sensors, apps, bots, AI). Final exhibition invites local leaders and tech mentors to boost youth-led innovation visibility.

Women in Robotics: Repair & Maintenance Workshop

Focuses on skilling women in drone repair and diagnostics. It�s an economic opportunity and empowerment program with long-term potential to create rural drone servicing ecosystems. Participants leave with tools, guides, and confidence to serve as community tech repair agents.

Open Data Storytelling with Maps & Visuals

This workshop trains participants to build compelling public stories (on climate, health, inequality) using open datasets, mapping tools, and visual storytelling. It�s aimed at amplifying unheard voices and making data advocacy more accessible and viral.

Last-Mile Tech Champions Local Summit

A vibrant in-person convergence of community tech enablers to network, share tools, learn from each other, and co-plan regional resilience tech actions. Helps break silos and boost local partnerships across sectors like health, education, disaster relief, and agriculture.