At LabXchange, we know that transforming science education requires more than great resources—it requires great educators willing to lead the way. The 2025 Ghana Teacher Ambassador cohort, initiated through a connection with Ghana's National STEM Resource Unit, is a powerful example of that leadership in action.
Led by master teachers David Bawa, Emmanuel Omang Ocquaye, and Olivia Serwaa Opare, 13 educators completed three months of rigorous training, learning to design pedagogically aligned STEM lessons enriched with virtual learning experiences on LabXchange. What makes this cohort particularly remarkable is its reach: many of these ambassadors are not classroom teachers but national and regional STEM coordinators and teacher trainers, meaning their adoption of LabXchange cascades directly to hundreds of educators and thousands of students across Ghana.
The cohort's insights paint a vivid picture of the realities of science teaching in Ghana. Unreliable internet, electricity outages, limited devices, and high data costs are everyday barriers in rural, suburban, and urban schools alike. For many ambassadors, functional science laboratories simply do not exist. LabXchange's virtual simulations have stepped in to fill that gap. As Michael Alorwu, a biology teacher at Akome Senior High Technical School, put it: "Laboratory simulations have been especially valuable. There is no functional science laboratory at my school." Daniel Kwadzo Ahadzi, Principal Instructor at St. Teresa's College of Education, echoed this: "Virtual lab simulations bring learners very close to real life situations where there are no physical labs and learning resources."
Ambassadors found creative workarounds to reach their students despite infrastructure challenges: hotspotting personal phones to laptops, grouping students to share single devices, and using projectors to display content to entire classrooms. Several also noted LabXchange's value in supporting Ghana's competency-based curriculum reform, with its inquiry-based and mastery learning approach aligning well with national education priorities. Emmanuel Omang Ocquaye, a National STEM Coordinator in Greater Accra, shared: "It has enhanced my ability to adapt the curriculum to meet the diverse learning needs of my students. In teaching processing of mixtures, I show students various videos in a risk-free environment before conducting hands-on activities."
The impact on students has been equally striking. Ambassadors consistently noted that LabXchange made abstract concepts,such as atoms, the solar system, chemical reactions, and the respiratory system easier to visualize and more engaging. Jane Francess Nachina, Regional STEM Coordinator for Ghana's Northern Region, captured the spirit of the cohort: "By joining LabXchange I have really learned and benefited a lot. I wish to be a LabXchange educator to mentor others. I have encouraged most of my students to join so that they learn what they did not understand in the classroom."
We congratulate the 2025 Ghana Teacher Ambassador cohort on this achievement, and look forward to seeing the ripple effect of their work across Ghana's STEM education landscape.
Explore pathways created by the Ghana cohort here.
Thank you and congratulations to the teacher ambassadors who participated in this cohort!
Interested in learning more about LabXchange’s educator programming? Would you like to be a teacher ambassador? Visit our Educator Community page or join our educator discussion groups on Facebook and LinkedIn!
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