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2025 mEducation Alliance Symposia

2025 Regional and Global Symposia Series

In 2025, the mEducation Alliance hosted a curated sequence of global, regional, and national convenings designed to share good practices, deepen learning, forge new partnerships, and expand a collective community of practitioners advancing wondrous learning opportunities.

To mark the mEducation Alliance’s 15th Anniversary, we expanded our convening footprint with our first-ever regional symposia, alongside our annual global gathering. Across all three events, we brought together more than 1,000 education stakeholders from over 50 countries, featuring 250+ sessions delivered by 300+ presenters. Together, these convenings advanced collaboration, innovation, and evidence-driven practice across the education sector.

Our 2025 events included:

  • STEMtastic Adventures! Africa (Nairobi, Kenya) brought together 600+ participants from 30 nationalities, including 15+ Ministries of Education, to explore innovative, evidence-driven approaches to strengthening STEM education across Africa.
  • STEMtastic Adventures with Young Pacific Leaders (Nadi, Fiji) convened educators, youth leaders, policymakers, and innovators from across the Pacific for 35+ inspiring sessions, vibrant collaboration, and a dynamic STEM Education Village.
  • Our 15th Annual Global Symposium (Arlington, VA and D.C.)– The Marvelous Education Alliance united 190+ global education leaders to celebrate community, innovation, and impact in low-resource settings.

For more information about each event, select the banners below to visit the individual event pages. For additional details, please contact us at medalliance@meducationalliance.org.

2025 Symposia Highlights

STEMtastic Adventures! Africa
STEMtastic Adventures! Pacific
Marvelous Education Alliance

Jul. 22 – 25, 2025

STEMtastic Adventures! Africa – 1st Annual

Nairobi – Kenya

Sep. 9 – 11, 2025

STEMtastic Adventures! with Young Pacific Leaders

Nadi – Fiji

Oct. 7 – 9, 2025

The Marvelous Education Alliance – 15th Annual

Washington D.C.

A History of High-Impact Convenings

Since 2009, we have organized 17 prior global and regional Symposia, bringing together diverse actors across the education ecosystem to advance wondrous learning opportunities.

We are one of the world’s largest and longest convenors of development and donor agencies, Ministries of Education, foundations, and other leading public and private sector organizations focused on EdTech, FLN, and STEM education — particularly in low-resource contexts. 

A core function of our Convening work is to create inclusive, dynamic, and highly participatory spaces where policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and other collaborators can exchange knowledge, build relationships, and identify practical ways to advance shared priorities.

We have warmly welcomed thousands of attendees at our prior Symposia — and quite a number of them have told us afterwards that it was one of the most welcoming and participatory events they have ever attended:-)

Across all past Symposia, we consistently engage Ministries of Education, other government policymakers, multilateral and bilateral agencies, NGOs, private-sector innovators, foundations, researchers, teachers, and students. Our events are known for their energy, creativity, and non-traditional approaches to knowledge exchange and networking.

To learn more about each convening, click on the buttons below to explore the individual event pages.

2025 STEMtastic Adventures! Africa
2025 STEMtastic Adventures! Pacific
2025 Marvelous Education Alliance
2024 Symposium
2023 Symposium
2022 Symposium

Testimonies from Prior Symposia Attendees

I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to take part in the 2025 mEducation Alliance Symposium — a gathering of passionate educators, innovators, and advocates committed to ensuring that learning continues, even in the most difficult circumstances. Together with my colleague Haneen Khalaf from Learning Upgrade, I shared Sahar Education’s Secret Scholar Online Program, which provides Afghan women and girls with safe, digital access to education. In a world where classrooms have been taken away, technology has become a bridge to possibility, hope, and empowerment. The Symposium was an inspiring space of collaboration and shared purpose — a powerful reminder that education is not just about lessons, but about resilience, courage, and the unbreakable will to learn.
Farzanah DarwishProgram Manager, Sahar Education Afghanistan
The mEducation Alliance Symposium was an incredible opportunity to share my research on Inner Infrastructure — the inner workings of thought, decision-making, and character that determine whether learning leads to action. The discussions were deeply engaging, with participants reflecting on what truly moves people to act — from curiosity and courage to encouragement and the freedom to fail. I left inspired by the shared realization that learning transforms lives only when it inspires action.
Henriette Paula MugisaGraduate Researcher, University of Georgia
It was wonderful reconnecting with friends and fellow changemakers at the mEducation Alliance Symposium in D.C.! Having attended the very first conference 15 years ago, it was inspiring to see how this community continues to grow and innovate. Despite the challenges facing global education, so many amazing people are still advancing EdTech solutions to ensure every learner has access to quality education. I’m grateful to be on this journey together.
Julie ClugageCo-Founder & Executive Director, Team4Tech
What struck me most across these conferences was how they created space not just for authentic human connection, but also for good-faith challenge that pushes the education development community toward greater improvement and excellence. It was powerful to witness so many such moments. I left with a renewed appreciation for how diverse, deeply committed, and rich in expertise this community is — and a stronger motivation to keep contributing to the collective effort of making EdTech more equitable, effective, and future-ready for all children. I’m excited to drive forward the collaborations sparked at these events and turn them into meaningful action!
Anjali NambiarResearch Coordinator, Eedi
The mEducation Alliance Symposium was a powerful reminder of why this work matters — a week filled with meaningful conversations, inspiring collaborators, and a shared refusal to accept the status quo in education. One line that stayed with me summed it up perfectly: “There’s no good educational outcome if you’re making the learner stressed or not valued.” This community embodies that truth — that real learning begins with connection, belonging, and purpose.
Evin SchwartzFounder & CEO, Tinkering Collective

Jax Chaudhry

Jax Chaudhry leads Project Invent, a national nonprofit that empowers youth with future ready mindsets for individual success and global impact, through invention. Originally from the Southside of Chicago, Jax loves working with students, families and partners to ensure every student can attain success as they define it. For more than 10 years, she has worked with elementary schools, high schools, education nonprofits and led regional teams and operations to ensure student success.

Michael Leventhal

Kenneth Y T Lim operates at the intersection of neuroergonomics, the learning scienceMichael Leventhal is co-founder of RobotsMali, a pedagogical and AI4D laboratory and STEM education center in Bamako, Mali. RobotsMali has trained thousands of students from elementary school to high school in computer science, robotics, and artificial intelligence, coached national robotics teams that have won 32 medals in international competitions, and developed technologies using AI and robotics for the social and economic development of Mali. Before becoming an educator in Mali, Michael worked as a technologist in Silicon Valley.s, and cognitive psychology. In 2023, he and his team were identified by UNESCO to share their work on the affordances of Generative AI for meaningful teaching and learning, during UNESCO’s first annual flagship event Digital Learning Week, international forum on the implications of Generative AI for education, in the session on ‘Preparing students and teachers for responsible use of AI’.

Enouce Ndeche

Enouce Ndeche is the founder and Director of Vijana Amani Pamoja ,VAP a community scheme based in Nairobi Kenya that uses the power and the popularity of the game of soccer/football as a catalyst for social, educational and economic empowerment.Enouce holds a degree in sociology from Egerton university and he is also the 2020 individual award recipient “Diversity and Inclusion Eminent Leader Award Enouce is also a certified Sports Philanthropy and Executive, George Washington University and is a 2023 Gratitude Network fellow.

Kenneth Y T Lim

Kenneth Y T Lim operates at the intersection of neuroergonomics, the learning sciences, and cognitive psychology. In 2023, he and his team were identified by UNESCO to share their work on the affordances of Generative AI for meaningful teaching and learning, during UNESCO’s first annual flagship event Digital Learning Week, international forum on the implications of Generative AI for education, in the session on ‘Preparing students and teachers for responsible use of AI’.