PepsiCo Educational Technology

The PepsiCo Technology is a partnership between Duke University Libraries and the Office of Durham and Community Affairs. A PepsiCo endowment funds the program, which aims to keep local classroom teachers abreast of instructional technology innovation; offer curriculum-related materials to support their work; and increase the information literacy of Durham Public Schools students.

Our Work

PepsiCo Ed Tech Projects

PepsiCo Educational Technology partners with local schools and taps into university and local resources to develop student-driven projects.

PepsiCo Ed Tech Classes

Educational Technology classes are taught by a variety of experts in computer science and multimedia skills. Students are inspired to find creative solutions to interesting problems.

PepsiCo Ed Tech Team

PepsiCo Technology Education works with Duke student interns and volunteers to provide programming in schools.

What do we do?

PepsiCo Educational Technology provides resources to our Durham Public School partners including workshops, tours, videos and collaborations.

Exploration of Duke resources

Sound Studio
Green Screen Recording Studio
Green Screens, both fabric and frames available to borrow
Printing objects with 3D printers
The Hidden Durham mobile app

Technology Fun Days

Half-day Tech Fun Days for hands-on experimentation with educational technology hosted at Duke for Durham Public Schools students and teachers.

Stop Motion animation using iStopMotion app
Green Screen animation using Green Screen by Do Ink app
Graphic Stories using Comics Head app
Osmo interactive games & app
Google Cardboard apps
Visit to the DiVE (Duke immersive Visual Environment)

Videos

Students have freedom to create their own stories through creative video technology.

Collaborate on grants!

PepsiCo Educational Technology has collaborated with Durham School of the Arts and GrowingChange on a Prison Flipping project through a State Farm Youth Advisory Board grant.

With the help of the Virtual Reality Learning Experience, during the 2016-2017 academic year, eight high school students in the Game Art & Design concentration at Durham School of the Arts will work with youth participants in GrowingChange to design a virtual reality version of a flipped prison. This will help people visualize abandoned prison’s untapped potential.

More information here and here.

EdTech YouTube

Impact Stories

AI and Implicit Bias

Both AI and bias (prejudice) have been major stories lately, from several states enacting new Jim Crow-style voting laws to anti-Asian sentiment. And then Google fired their head of AI ethics when she raised the question of hidden AI bias against women and people of color. Others have shown that bias is embedded into some AI programs.

History of Medicine Project

John Hope Franklin Young Scholars studied diseases endemic to NC and created multimedia presentations to help understand North Carolina’s historically poor population health.

October 20, 2021

John Hope Franklin Young Scholars Dive into History

Local middle school students learned about activists and brought their imaginations to life as they wrote “Ms. Montgomery’s Magnificent Marching Mice.”