Prabhath Mannapperuma
Prabhath Mannapperuma is a Sri Lankan author [1] [2] and a social entrepreneur.[3][4] He is the Founder of Sri Lanka's non-profit organizations, Micro:bit Sri Lanka User Group and STEMUP Educational Foundation.
Early life & career
Prabhath was born in Colombo. He did his schooling at Joseph Vaz College[5] and graduated from the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology.[6] [7][8][9][10][11]
Mannapperuma founded Micro:bit Sri Lanka User Group in December 2016.[12] It was started with the idea of helping disadvantaged kids in Sri Lanka.[13][14][15][16][17] [18]
Honors & awards
- TheirWorld Youth Skills S/Hero Award, 2018[19]
References
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/wd/e/B0781H1PJG?tag=everybodywikien-20
- ↑ "Prabhath Mannapperuma".
- ↑ "Building Sri Lanka's young programmers, bit by bit".
- ↑ "If we want to get students interested in STEM, we need to start at an earlier age". 2019-06-17.
- ↑ "Building Sri Lanka's young programmers, bit by bit". Daily FT. 6 October 2017.
- ↑ Munasinghe, T. S.; Wijetunga, D.; Perera, M. M. I.; Mannapperuma, D. P.; Wickramarathne, Jagath (2017). "Automated User Experience Monitor (A.U.X.M)".
- ↑ "Volunteers help children in remote Sri Lankan schools to learn coding". 2019-06-17.
- ↑ "Building Sri Lanka's young programmers, bit by bit".
- ↑ Hussain, Mazin (25 December 2017). "Coding the future: The mission of Micro:bit SLUG".
- ↑ "Empowering coders with CoderDojo Sri Lanka". 2019-02-25.
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG1DgVMHcWw
- ↑ "Coding the future: The mission of Micro:bit SLUG".
- ↑ "Bridging the STEM Skills Gap in Sri Lanka". voicesofyouth.org. 17 January 2019.
- ↑ "Finding Fits at the HackBit 2018 Hackathon".
- ↑ "Efforts to Help School Children in Sri Lanka Showing Results". 2018-03-06.
- ↑ "Digital as a way to transform emerging economies". 2018-04-09.
- ↑ "Volunteers help children in remote Sri Lankan schools to learn coding #Microbit". 2017-12-06.
- ↑ https://teams.unesco.org/ORG/fu/bangkok/public_events/Shared%20Documents/EISD/2018/Feb-SARSIE/SARSIE-Booklet.pdf
- ↑ "Global Youth Ambassadors S/Hero Week: Meet our youth skills champion Prabhath". 2019-06-17.
External links
- STEMUp Educational Foundation
- CoderDojo Sri Lanka
- Micro:bit Sri Lanka User Group
- TheirWorld Ambassador
- Amazon Author Central
- Apple Books
- Goodreads Author
- Kobo Author
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