Nyansapo

Rewrite assessment for classrooms where the tools are already in use.

Places: 5
Closes: 15 October 2026

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What is breaking

Schools ban tools their students use at home, which teaches concealment.
Detection software accuses students on evidence that does not survive scrutiny.
Assessment written for a world without these tools has become guesswork.
Caribbean students are thin in the training data, so the systems misread them.

Your work

Define honest assessment for classrooms where the tools are already in use.
Give schools a rule a teacher can apply on a Monday morning.
Build a route for students to be heard on rules written about them.
Document where Caribbean students are misread, with evidence.

The name

Nyansapo is the Akan wisdom knot, an adinkra symbol for wisdom and ingenuity. The knot in the saying yields to patience rather than to force.

What you deliver

01Name the harm using Caribbean evidence rather than figures borrowed from the United States and Europe.
02Write something a regulator, ministry, school board or publisher can adopt as written.
03Publish it as a named author.
04Take it into the rooms where StarApple AI and CAIA already sit with regulators and ministries.

Who applies

Teachers, trainee teachers, education students and graduates, and people in curriculum, assessment or school leadership. No AI background needed.

One of the five places goes to someone living in a Caribbean country.

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How long, and how many hours?+

Set with each cohort once the places are filled, so it works around exams and jobs. Regular meetings, work between them, assessments along the way. You see the schedule and the terms in writing before you accept.

Do I need an AI background?+

No. We need your subject knowledge. The AI side is ours to teach.

Can I apply to more than one?+

Pick your strongest. If two genuinely fit, say so and we read you for both.

I am not in the Caribbean.+

Apply. One place in each fellowship is held for someone living in the region. Say how you connect to the work.

Is it remote?+

Meetings run online. Anything in person is optional and covered.

After the deadline?+

We read everything, shortlist, then speak to the shortlist. Everyone hears back.