Academic & Technology Partners
Tahini is building a gamified national STEM contest that will engage students across Kenya and the broader East Africa. To deliver this at scale with integrity, quality, and reliability, we are inviting academic institutions, educators, innovators, and technology organisations to partner with us. Together, we can create an inclusive learning experience that rewards excellence, inspires curiosity, and prepares learners for a digital future.
Why Partnerships Matter
Tahini is designed to serve learners at national scale, and scale must be matched with academic credibility and strong technology foundations. Partners help us ensure our content is accurate and curriculum-aligned, our platform is stable and secure, and our outreach reaches every community.
By partnering with Tahini, you join a mission that supports equitable education and builds a long-term ecosystem for STEM learning. Whether your strength is academic expertise or technology innovation, your contribution helps strengthen the foundation of an initiative built for millions of learners.
Choose Your Partnership Track
Tahini partners fall into two core tracks: Academic and Technology, because building a national STEM contest needs both strong learning integrity and reliable infrastructure. Academic partners help shape curriculum-aligned content and quality standards, while technology partners support platform performance, security, accessibility, and scale. Organisations can join one track or both, depending on expertise, capacity, and interest.
Academic Partners
Tahini is committed to high-quality, curriculum-aligned content that is fair, accurate, and appropriate for each grade level. Academic partners make this possible by supporting content design, validation, moderation, and learning integrity.
Whether you are a teacher, lecturer, assessor, or academic institution, your expertise helps ensure that every question supports meaningful learning and reflects real curriculum outcomes.
Academic partnership opportunities include:
- Supporting question design and review
- Curriculum alignment and strand mapping
- Difficulty balancing across easy, medium, and hard levels
- Learning integrity and moderation guidance
- Teacher mobilisation and school readiness support
- Research collaboration and learning evaluation frameworks
Technology Partners
Tahini is built to run as a high-traffic, multi-round online contest that must remain accessible, stable, and secure. Technology partners help us design and maintain an experience where every student can participate reliably, whether from home, school, or shared access points.
If your organisation supports digital transformation, infrastructure, or education technology, Tahini offers a meaningful platform to create measurable social impact at scale.
Technology partnership opportunities include:
- Platform hosting, scale, and infrastructure support
- Reliable access for high participation volumes
- Secure login and integrity monitoring systems
- Low-data accessibility and device-friendly design
- Payment integration and registration automation
- Performance analytics dashboards and reporting support
- Connectivity and device access programs for learners
Partnership Value & Models
Tahini partnerships are designed to create shared value. This section outlines what partners gain through visibility, alignment, and measurable impact, while also showing flexible partnership models that make it easy to contribute based on your strengths, capacity, and goals.
Founding Partners Now Joining
Tahini is currently onboarding founding academic and technology partners for the 2025 contest cycle. Early partners will play a unique role in shaping the platform, strengthening delivery, and defining standards for quality and learning integrity. Confirmed partners will be featured on this page as onboarding progresses.
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