How Sisanda Tech Aims To Help The STEM Sector Grow
How Sisanda Tech Aims To Help The STEM Sector Grow. Sisanda Tech is a design studio made by developers, creatives, thinkers and makers who create exciting and engaging immersive experiences. It develops award-winning augmented and virtual reality solutions to solve real problems. Sisanda loves to share, collaborate and learn from others, it believes this is the way for it to be able to build great products and solutions.
The company started in 2017, the year it launched its 2D energy saving game called EED. The game eventually came 3rd in the SAB Kickstart entrepreneurship competition. After the success of EED, it worked on a new project called Sirealities (now known as Sisanda App Universe). The aim is to provide learners with a virtual platform to perform science experiments. The interactive software emulates real-life scenarios. It continued to develop Sirealities (Sisanda App Universe) to the point where it became the first augmented reality app to win Most Innovative Solution at the 2019 MTN Business App of the Year Awards. To this day, the company immerses itself in augmented and virtual reality in order to create mind-blowing, technology-based experiences.
Sisanda Tech has partnerships with local schools and plans to expand across Africa. “Our tech can help municipalities with educational awareness, such as when they want to explain a certain technology to citizens, they can use our app to build learning simulations. They can also use it for staff training.” Founder of Sisanda Tech Mbangiso Mabaso told Redbull in an interview.
To boost the next generation of South African scientists, he founded Sisanda Tech, a social enterprise developing software and mobile games to make STEM education more fun and accessible. “Three out of five learners define maths and science as difficult subjects, so they end up not choosing careers in these fields because of the attitude they’ve developed. This has a negative effect on the national GDP in the long run, because by 2020 it is projected that there will be millions of jobs in STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths] fields.” Mabaso added.
