Tomedes Brings TUMO's Creative Technology Curriculum to Spanish and Basque-Speaking Teens

See how Tomedes translated TUMO's free creative technology curriculum into Spanish and Basque, helping the award-winning education nonprofit reach teenagers in Spanish and Basque-speaking regions across 14 learning targets.
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About TUMO

Free, world-class creative technology education

TUMO Center for Creative Technologies is a free after-school program operating in 20+ countries, giving teenagers aged 12 to 18 access to world-class creative technology education at no cost. Founded in Yerevan, Armenia, TUMO now serves 35,000+ active students across centers in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas.

Students learn at their own pace across 14 focus areas — animation, game development, robotics, filmmaking, music, programming, and more — guided by a proprietary learning platform called the TUMO Path that builds a personalized curriculum around each student's interests. There are no fees, no grades, and no entrance exams.

TUMO's expansion into Spanish and Basque-speaking regions brought a new translation challenge: a substantial body of instructional, technical, and creative curriculum content that had to work for teenagers learning complex skills, often for the first time, in a self-directed environment.

The Challenge

Three problems to solve before a single word was translated

Translating an educational curriculum at this scale is a different category of project from translating a single document. The content is heterogeneous — technical in places, instructional in others, creative in others — and it had to work for its intended audience.

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Subject-matter diversity across 14 disciplines

A linguist who handles robotics documentation fluently may lack the register for music production or filmmaking. Programming content needs precise technical terminology where an error doesn't just confuse a student — it breaks the learning activity. Each subject area needed linguists with direct familiarity in that field.

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A register built for teenage self-directed learners

TUMO's curriculum is designed to feel like exploration, not coursework. It speaks directly to students in plain language and avoids the formal register of traditional educational materials. Preserving that warmth and directness in Spanish and Basque required linguists who understood the audience, not just the language.

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Basque as a minority language

Basque (Euskara) is a language isolate with no known relatives — its structure and vocabulary share nothing with Spanish or any neighboring language. The pool of translators with both Basque fluency and creative-technology vocabulary is narrow, requiring targeted recruitment from a specialist network.

Why Tomedes

Specialist teams for heterogeneous content

TUMO selected Tomedes for its ability to assemble specialist linguist teams across heterogeneous content domains and its experience with large-scale educational localization. The Basque component in particular required Tomedes to source translators combining technical subject-matter depth with Basque competence — a pairing that is rare in the professional translation market. A dedicated project manager structured the workflow so each of the 14 learning targets was matched to a linguist with relevant expertise, with a cross-domain editorial review at the end of each content cluster before delivery.

The Solution

A three-layer approach to quality at scale

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A domain-matched linguist team across 14 subject areas

Rather than assigning the project to a generalist team, Tomedes built a domain-matched roster for both Spanish and Basque. Programming and robotics went to linguists with technical software backgrounds; animation and graphic design to translators with creative-technology experience; music production to a linguist with audio production familiarity. This ensured technical vocabulary and the instructional logic of each activity translated correctly into both languages.

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A register review layer to preserve TUMO's student-facing voice

After the main translation pass, a dedicated register review by senior editors in both languages focused specifically on preserving the student-facing voice. It identified places where technically accurate translations had drifted into a more formal instructional register than the source intended, and produced targeted revisions that restored the direct, accessible tone TUMO's pedagogy depends on — applied uniformly across all 14 subject areas.

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Basque specialist sourcing and quality assurance

The Basque team was sourced through targeted outreach within Tomedes' specialist network, prioritizing verified Basque fluency plus documented subject-matter experience. Most learning targets were covered with direct domain expertise, the remainder with adjacent backgrounds plus a dedicated technical review pass. All Basque content was reviewed by a second Basque-fluent linguist before delivery to confirm terminology consistency and register alignment.

The Result

Curriculum ready in language built for the students who use it

When TUMO's new centers opened, every module — from animation briefs to robotics debugging guides to filmmaking project labs — was available in language written for its learners. Not translated for a generic audience, but localized for teenagers encountering these subjects for the first time in a self-directed environment.

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Learning targets localized in both languages
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Terminology issues raised in post-deployment review
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Curriculum readiness delays during expansion

The full curriculum was delivered across both languages on a phased schedule aligned with TUMO's center-opening timeline. TUMO's mission is a world where any teenager — regardless of geography, income, or academic history — has access to world-class creative technology education. Tomedes' role was to make sure the language was never the barrier.

We needed to tackle a particularly demanding project: producing high-quality, heavy content in both Castilian Spanish and Basque. Finding an agency with truly native, professional Basque translators was a real challenge — Basque is unique and complex, and anything less than native experts was not an option. Tomedes rose to that challenge.

From the first interaction, Tomedes stood out for their responsiveness — questions answered quickly and clearly, which immediately inspired confidence. Knowing our content would be handled by qualified native professionals gave us complete confidence. They consistently delivered on time, and whenever we gave feedback the team responded swiftly and constructively. That flexibility and commitment to quality has made Tomedes a genuinely reliable partner.

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Hasmik AkopianLaunch Manager, TUMO International
Project Snapshot

Key details

Document type
Educational curriculum — self-learning activities, workshop guides, project labs, and instructional content across 14 learning targets
Language pair
English → Spanish and Basque
Industry
Education / Nonprofit
Service type
Localization and register adaptation
Scope
Full curriculum across 14 subject areas
Certification
ISO 17100:2015
Tools used
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