Creativity Lab
Is an EdTech company established in 2018 offering innovative teaching and affordable STEM teaching materials to integrate hands-on STEM activity in classroom to complement Competency-Based Curriculum in primary schools.
Why Creativity Lab?
Limited access to technology laboratories in schools affects children's interest in technology subjects as they graduate from the primary level to high school and university. Overtime, this can negatively impact the quality of innovations that would otherwise drive the increasing technological growth of our country and the ability of our youth to participate in the global technology revolution and positioning Rwanda among the leading African countries in technology and innovation by 2035.
Thus, Creativity Lab exists to bridge that gap by offering an innovative approach to teach STEM in classroom, providing affordable locally made teaching materials and complement competency-based curriculum to build children's skills in robotics, creative coding, engineering and Artificial Intelligence.
Our milestones and experience
126,000
Students trained
1,350
Teachers trained
350
Schools reached
12
Districts reached
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Learning Through Play with Technology
This was the magic of the Plug in Play project, implemented by Right To Play with support from the LEGO Foundation. In playful, hands-on lessons, 116,000 students were delving into coding, robotics, and engineering, exploring their creativity, and building essential skills like problem solving, collaboration, and innovation – skills that helped them thrive in school and in life. Creativity Lab participated in development of teacher guide books, capacity building of teachers in coding and robotics and and providing technical support to teachers during community of practice and robotics clubs.
African Girls Can Code
Phase 3 of the African Girls Can Code Initiative (AGCCI) in Rwanda , launched in mid-2025 by UN Women and partners, empowered 120+ young women with intensive, two-week bootcamps in coding, robotics, and digital skills. This initiative strengthened Rwanda's goal to bridge the STEM gender gap by 2026, fostering innovation, mentorship, and career opportunities in technology. Creativity Lab conducted hands-on robotics sessions during those two weeks of bootcamp and participants learnt basics on robots making and problem solving using robots.
National Robotics Challenge 2025 for Primary Schools
Right to Play Rwanda, in partnership with the Rwanda Basic Education Board, GIZ, and Creativity Lab, held the 2025 National Robotics Challenge on July 8, bringing together 60 primary school students aged 8 to 11 from across the country. Under the theme “The Role of Technology in Public Health”, the young participants worked closely with their teachers to review classroom concepts and apply them by building and coding robots linked to the theme.
Rwanda National Robotics Program
Launched in 2024 by Ministry of Education and Ministry of ICT and Innovation, the National Robotics Program integrates robotics into the curriculum for primary and secondary schools to boost STEM skills. Partnering with GIZ, this initiative aims to prepare youth for the digital economy, fostering critical thinking, and innovation. In this project Creativity Lab is the only solution provider producing robotics kits and other resources to be used in integrating robotics in the national curriculum of primary schools.
Creative Engineering, Coding and Robotics
Igniting the next generation of innovators in Rwanda! In partnership with Creativity Lab, Edify Rwanda hosts every year a Creative Coding and Robotics Camp. This camp bring together upper primary students and teachers across the country to learn new skills and strategies to find solutions using technology.
World Robot Olympiad WRO
In 2023 World Robot Olympiad WRO was introduced in Rwanda with a Theme "Connecting the World", the aim of that competition was to promote diverse problem-solving through robotics. That initiative provided training to teachers and students, equipping them with robotics materials that supported them in competition preparation and project making.
African Code Challenge
The AfriCAN Code Challenge was an annual Pan-African coding competition for youth aged 8–16, it was part of the Africa Code Week initiative launched by SAP and UNESCO. It invited participants to create programs using Scratch based on annual themes like sustainability or community and submitting 3-minute videos to showcase children works. It was introduced in Rwanda for the first time in 2020 by Creativity Lab to offer opportunities to children and support them compete on continantal level.
Teacher's capacity building in Robotics
Creativity lab in partnership with Rwanda National Commission for UNESCO (CNRU) organized teacher training workshops exposing them to different instructional strategies using latest advanced technologies, such as AI and robotics as well as micro-science kits which have been minimally exploited in educational context in Africa.
STEM Exploration and Showcase
STEM Exploration and Showcase is an event organized by Creativity Lab features Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics - STEM to provide students a place to explore STEM, exhibit their works and learning opportunities– including STEM based activities, playing and interactive exhibits from local scientists, organizations, schools, and companies.
Kids Tech Camp
The objective of the Tech Camp for kids was to empower and promote children by providing them early access to technology. The identified strategy was to conduct technical summer camps in all 30 districts of Rwanda during school holidays. The camps were a cooperation from the Creativity Lab in Rwanda and the www.technikcamps.de from the University of Koblenz-Landau.