Ciena Solutions Challenge

Ciena Solutions
Challenge Ambassadors

Ciena Solutions Challenge Ambassadors are educators who share their experiences on successfully implementing the Ciena Solutions Challenge with students. By sharing their stories, Ambassadors advocate for student-centered learning to their peers around the world. Learn more about each educator and the student projects they facilitated by reading their stories below.

Alesa Barron

Alesa Barron is a graphic design pathway instructor at Benjamin E. Mays High School in Atlanta, GA, United States.

Anni Kumar

Anni Kumar is the Head of Department for Computer Science in Vikas Bharati Public School in Delhi, India.

Arman Imansharipova

Arman Imansharipova is a physics and integrated science teacher, and STEM trainer at Nazarbayev Intellectual School, in Astana, Kazakhstan.

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Beldine Atieno

Beldine Atieno is a programs officer at iEARN-Kenya.

Biviana Isabel Correa Andica

Biviana Isabel Correa Andica is an English and Spanish teacher at the Escuela Normal Superior del Quindío, an education institution in Armenia, Quindío, Colombia.

Ebenezer Anyadiegwu

Ebenezer Anyadiegwu is a STEM educator, SDGs advocate, an innovator and Climate Education Champion, a Teach For Nigeria fellow at Egba Odeda High School Junior in Odeda, Nigeria.

Ed Gomes, Jr.

Ed Gomes Jr. is an educator at the Secretariat of Education of the State of São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil.

Edjohnier Phillips

Edjohnier Phillips is a VILS coach at Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy in Atlanta, GA, United States.

Grace Musingo

Grace Nabuduwa Musingo is a teacher at Ngora Girls Secondary School in Soroti City, Uganda.

Ivanete Landim

Ivanete Paes Landim is a teacher at PEI Simpliciano Campolim de Almeida in Nova Campina, São Paulo, Brazil.

Jobert Ngwenya

Jobert is an entrepreneurship educator at Eveline High School in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

Karie Huttner

Karie Huttner is a grade 6-8 technology and design thinking teacher at Savanna Oaks Middle School in Fitchburg, WI, United States.

Kristie Letter

Kristie Letter is a teacher at Peak to Peak High School in Lafayette, CO, United States.

Leticia Emefa Yawa Akabutoo

Leticia Emefa Yawa Akabutoo is an English as a Foreign Language and Literature teacher at St. Catherine Senior High School in Agbakope, Ghana.

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Lindsay-Darshaun Murray

Lindsay-Darshaun Murray is a Digital Learning Lead at Kansas Public Schools in Kansas City, MO, United States.

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Lusanda Magwape

Lusanda Magwape is an educator at Dream Factory Foundation and Matenge Primary School in Matenge Village, Botswana.

Mahamba Sebastian

Mahamba Sebastian is a teacher at Mnarani Secondary in Mwanza City, Tanzania.

Maia Tkemaladze

Maia Tkemaladze is a teacher of English as a foreign language in Sachkhere Public School No. 2 in Sachkhere, Georgia.

Poonam Gupta

Poonam Gupta is a teacher at City Pride School in Pune, India.

Sajal Ghosh

Sajal Ghosh is a Frugal Innovator, motivating his students in Challenge Based Learning at Gandhi High Vidyalaya, Purulia, West Bengal, India.

Samuel Awoyemi Olaoluwa

Samuel Awoyemi Olaoluwa is a teacher at Caleb British International School in Lagos, Nigeria.

Susmita Roy Chowdhury

Susmita Roy Chowdhury is a teacher at Santamayee Girls High School in Puralia, West Bengal, India.

Szuchia Hou

Szuchia Hou is an English teacher at Affiliated Senior High School of National Kaohsiung Normal University in Taiwan.

Theode Niyirinda

Theode Niyirinda is a teacher at Gayaza High School in Kampala, Uganda.

Zhananur Kassimova

Zhananur Kassimova is an English teacher at Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Chemistry and Biology in Karaganda, Kazakhstan.