{"id":10186,"date":"2018-08-07T12:52:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T09:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enezaeducation.com\/?p=10186"},"modified":"2018-08-07T12:52:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T09:52:36","slug":"erastus-shupavu291-user-testimonial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enezaeducation.com\/2018\/08\/07\/erastus-shupavu291-user-testimonial\/","title":{"rendered":"Shupavu291 enables future engineers like Erastus (right) achieve their dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10187\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enezaeducation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kago-Erastus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10187\" class=\"wp-image-10187\" src=\"https:\/\/enezaeducation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kago-Erastus-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"Kago with Erastus Shupavu291 student\" width=\"650\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.enezaeducation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kago-Erastus-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.enezaeducation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kago-Erastus-100x73.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.enezaeducation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kago-Erastus.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kago with Erastus Shupavu291 student<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Erastus Shupavu291 user testimonial:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did you know that Aviation technology is a subject in the Kenyan High School curriculum? I learned this from Erastus Apwacho, a Form-3 (equivalent of 11th Grade) student at Maseno School, who is one of the most active learners on Shupavu291 SMS. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He hung out with our CEO, Kago and talked about how Eneza\u2019s users could spread education through the platform beyond the invite-a-friend feature. They shared awesome problems and insights on what would motivate learners or \u201cinvitees\u201d to create platform virality. Erastus also got to problem solve from a business\u2019 perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Erastus heard about <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shupavu291<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211;our SMS virtual classroom&#8211;on Radio Citizen in 2016, when had just joined high school after scoring 435\/500 points in KCPE. He\u2019s been a loyal mobile bookworm, studying diligently on his old sluggish Android phone during school holidays. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTime management\u201d, he told me, was how he\u2019d managed to be extremely active given his school, Maseno, doesn\u2019t allow phone usage during the school term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the holidays, his typical day starts 6am with study on Eneza. He spends his day socializing, helping his mother with house chores, going to the local library and even watching some TV. In between, he takes at least 30 lessons on Eneza.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When he started studying on Eneza, Erastus was scoring 570\/800 marks at Maseno. This has improved to 630 marks in Form 3. He does <\/span><b><i>all<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the pure sciences i.e. Chemistry, Physics and Biology at school and on Eneza, in addition to the other general subjects, English, Mathematics, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swahili<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Geography. The only subject not available on on Eneza is <\/span><b>Aviation Technology<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It\u2019s only offered by a handful of secondary schools in Kenya, Maseno School being one, and leads to Aeronautical Engineering, which requires a perfect A grade of 84 points. This means Erastus has his work set out for him, and with the current focus and awesome life-balance he\u2019s achieved so far, the world is his oyster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are happy to be part of his education, even though we don\u2019t have Aviation Technology. Erastus is brilliant, however shy. If he can hold down the other 8 subjects and be confident enough to take on new learning challenges, he\u2019ll be good!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019re obviously looking into getting that and other specialised subjects on the platform,\u201d Kago commented. \u201cI want to see him build big planes and teach others how to do it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shupavu291, the 1G learning product that Erastus uses, can be accessed by dialing the short code *291# on any Safaricom mobile phone in Kenya, and costs KSH 1.5 daily ($0.10 weekly). The same product was awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/enezaeducation.com\/eneza-education-safaricom-awarded-education-award-gsma-2018-global-mobile-awards-mwc18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Best Mobile Innovation for Education<\/a> at the Mobile World Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldcongress.com\/winners-2018\/best-mobile-innovation-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018 GLOMO awards<\/a> for stories just like these.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you know any content partners who enable learners like Erastus achieve their career aspirations through fun and practical STEM programmes. Please connect us! We\u2019re always looking for amazing partners to add value to the users that are making time to study with tech. Send us an email to <\/span><a href=\"mailto:social@enezaeducation.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">social@enezaeducation.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erastus Shupavu291 user testimonial: Did you know that Aviation technology is a subject in the Kenyan High School curriculum? I learned this from Erastus Apwacho, a Form-3 (equivalent of 11th &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enezaeducation.com\/2018\/08\/07\/erastus-shupavu291-user-testimonial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,30],"tags":[473,495,518,590],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.enezaeducation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Slider-14.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enezaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enezaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enezaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enezaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enezaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.enezaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enezaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enezaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enezaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enezaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}