Impact through Lights - Making Global Connections

What began as a quick email from AIM Center for Global Leadership director Amy Cline to a group of international travelers, became a unique science, engineering, cultural and service learning opportunity for all AIM students.

Follow this exciting timeline which allowed AIM students to impact students a world away carrying light from Conshohocken to Nairobi.

Liter of Light Visit – December 1

Liter of Light, an international non-profit, made AIM Academy an impromptu stop on its United States road trip. One of the few high schools the group visited. Middle and Upper School students spent time learning the importance of providing light to people in communities that have no access to electricity and made more than 60 solar circuit boards to be used in lights in just one day.

International Day of Light – May 16

AIM’s all school recognition of UNESCO’s first International Day of Light included a day of lamp building workshops as Middle and Upper School students soldered, connected wires and assembled solar-powered lamps using recycled plastic bottles. On the International Day of Light, all AIM students gathered in the ACC to learn about light poverty and the importance of the light.

Lighting Up Kenya – July 2018

AIM’s Athletics Assistant Jamie Stratton has traveled to Africa several times, but this year’s trip to Nairobi to serve children in an impoverished school was different. Jamie brought along AIM student-made solar circuit boards and directions to show students how to make solar-powered lights. “It gives these children a huge advantage in life to learn a vocational skill like this at such a young age,” Jamie explained. “It really could be the difference between living a comfortable life and poverty.” Jamie worked with the school’s 8th grade students to create the lamps. “One of the girls named Janet (pictured to the left) was ecstatic.” Jamie said. “She told me how she had no electricity at home and could now do her homework at night as well as cook and clean for her brothers and sisters.”

2017-2018 ANNUAL REPORT