Mani Sabapathi, a member of Church Farm School’s Board of Directors, has a great passion and interest in education, which is how he became associated with CFS.

Sabapathi’s friend, former board member Mehul Trivedi, introduced him to the school, and he quickly became involved with the Finance committee, helping with asset allocation ideas.

“I really love the mission of providing access to high-quality education to students who would otherwise not have access to it,” said Sabapathi. “All members on the board that I have come across have really impressed me with their passion for the school and making a difference through education.”

Sabapathi finds education as an avenue that helps people transcend socio-economic barriers. He immigrated to the United States while in fifth grade, attending public schools in Bensalem and Upper Darby through his remaining primary and secondary education. His interest in math and science prompted him to major in engineering and economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

He credits his education for putting him in a position in which he can give back and help others benefit from access to better education.

One of Sabapathi’s long-term life goals is to bring access to education and improved educational resources to rural communities. His main locations of interest include Nepal and Kenya. He found that rural areas in these countries lack resources for students and teachers.

Currently, Sabapathi travels to Kenya, where he is developing an offline learning platform. This platform consists of a learning management system that provides a framework for teachers to assign work and oversee student progress. He has curated the program to fit Kenya’s curriculum for grades 1-8 and is currently working on organizing and providing access to Cambridge curriculum, which is used by international schools in many parts of the world. The program also comes with a robust set of assessments to help identify gaps in learning: real-time feedback for teachers.

Sabapathi believes that technology is often used by students to consume material rather than create it, which is why his program also features tools for content creation. He’s looking forward to taking his knowledge about education to develop more data-driven analysis of the benefit of a CFS education.

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