HVK’s Children Foundation: Improving the user experience on the Lab-in-a-Box for students in Liberia

Project Sponsor: Hawah V. Kamara (HVK) Children’s Foundation

HVK’s Children Foundation is a non-profit organization based in both West Africa, Liberia and Worcester, MA. Their mission is to help children, women, and families in sub-Saharan Africa, Liberia. The organization has partnered with 6 different primary and junior high schools in Liberia to coordinate health and education programs. To learn more about the organization, please visit https://hvkchildrensfoundation.org/.

Student Researchers

Goal & Objectives:

Our goal was to improve the user experience of the Lab-in-a-Box portal. We developed and addressed the following four objectives: 

1. Understanding the portal and current curriculum in Liberia.
2. Improving the bandwidth and the battery life of the system.
3. Updating the portal with new and relevant content and organizing them in a new content management platform with a login system and a monitoring system.
4. Developing training programs for teachers on setting up and operating the portal. 

Final Deliverables:

How to Set Up and Use the Lab-in-a-Box Video