Student App Creator Helps Ghanaian Teachers

PROVO, Utah – Feb 20, 2018 – Parents and teachers in America complain about bureaucracy in education, but in Ghana, teachers are required to submit handwritten daily lesson plans to their supervisors. When BYU graduate student Cade Dopp learned about this inefficiency in the Ghanaian education system, he participated in the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance’s Y-Prize Education challenge, a program encouraging students to bring proven education solutions to countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Dopp won funding and continued on to implement his idea of streamlining the workload of teachers in Ghana through his app called Educell. 

Learn more about Educell and the work Dopp has done in Ghana on Julie Rose’s “Top Of Mind” radio show.