Program
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Ethiopian Embassy, Washington DC May 18, 2019
| Time | Speaker/Title |
| 9:00 AM | Welcome-Ethiopian Embassy Empowering the Communities of Ethiopia through Charitable Contributions and Education Brief: Mel Tewahade, in addition to running a successful business, he organized charitable mission to Ethiopia. His recent work includes the donation of thousands of prescription glasses to needy people in several towns in Ethiopia. He plans several similar missions to Ethiopia to address the needs for affordable housing, public sanitation facilities, maintenance of hospitals, diagnostic equipment donations, water harvesting, school building and many more. Program Procedure/Roll Call-Abebe/Belhu |
| 9:15 -9:35 AM | Berhane Mewa (Some aspects of measuring the Quality of Education from the community perspective. A personal View) |
| 9:35 -9:50 AM | Nega Worku Debela (Education and Training Policy in Ethiopia: The Missing Link) |
| 9:50-10:05 AM | A.A Woldegiyorgis/Sisay Asefa (Diaspora engagement in Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges) |
| 10:05-10:20 AM | Destenie Nock (Paths Towards Universal Electricity Access: Increasing Social Welfare using Optimization) |
| 10:20-10:35 AM | Melaku Lakew (Transfer of knowledge through national Diaspora) |
| 10:35-10:50 AM | Shimelse Mekonnen (YEP’s role and its contributions via the Ethiopian Diaspora Professionals Knowledge and Resource Transfer Initiative (EDPI) |
| 10:50-11:05 AM | Dereje Tessema ( Spreading the Language of Project Management to turn the tide on failing projects – The Case of Ethiopia) |
| 11:05-11:20 AM | Asegid Habtewold (The Place of Leadership Development to Implement the Ethiopian Education Roadmap) |
| 11:20 -11:40 AM | Judy M Findlay (The Invisible Classroom) |
| 1 | Solomon Teklai (Sharing my twenty years of teaching experience in community college, public and private high schools, and community outreach programs to mentor and tutor 1st to 12th grade students in the USA) |
| Tsegaye Legesse (The State of STEM Education in Ethiopia) | |
| Working Lunch | |
| BREAKOUT SESSION | |
| Melaku Tesfa Tessema and Johan Braeke (Mapping Student Enrollment and Admission Eligibility for Higher Education in Ethiopia: Affirmative Action as Equity Instrument ?) | |
| Aweke Elias (Applied STEM Education for economic development in Ethiopia-) | |
| Anne E. Sumner (Facilitating Knowledge Transfer and Improving Health: Insights from the Africans in America Cohort | |
| Philip Kurian et.al. (Howard University: Connecting DC and Ethiopian communities in science, spirituality, and scholarship) | |
| Berhanu Mengistu (Exploring the Dimensions of Holistic Education) | |
| Hawani Nigussie (The Role of Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Practices in Early Childhood Care and Education in Ethiopia) | |
| Dejenie Alemayehu Lakew (Why Mathematics ?) | |
| Mulugeta Alemseghed (STEM Education Frontiers) | |
| PANEL DISCUSSION | |
| CONCLUDING REMARKS |
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