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Young Engineers Uganda receives UGX 40m worth of VEX robotics kits from US Army Serviceman

The Young Engineers Uganda Team members representing at Pan-African Robotics Competition 2024 in Dakar, Senegal include Shanice Asante Baluka from Heritage International School, Roshan Aitham Karoobi from The Stoneridge School, and Donald Intwari Buchanan from Aga Khan International School. They are accompanied by their coaches, Monica Arinaitwe and Anatori Tucungwire.

Fresh from securing a silver medal for Uganda at the Pan African Robotics Championship in Dakar, Senegal, Young Engineers Uganda, a pioneering STEM education program for children aged 4-17, has received a significant boost in the form of VEX Robotics Kits valued at $10,000.  This generous donation was made by Baxter Pittman, a serviceman in the US Army. The Young Engineers programme is run by the African School of Innovations, Science, and Technology (ASIST) Limited founded by journalist Arinaitwe Rugyendo in 2016. He founded it to inspire the next generation of Ugandan scientists and problem solvers through a LEGO and…

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Paul Murungi is a Ugandan Business Journalist with extensive financial journalism training from institutions in South Africa, London (UK), Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda. His coverage focuses on groundbreaking stories across the East African region with a focus on ICT, Energy, Oil and Gas, Mining, Companies, Capital and Financial markets, and the General Economy.

His body of work has contributed to policy change in private and public companies.

Paul has so far won five continental awards at the Sanlam Group Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism in Johannesburg, South Africa, and several Uganda national journalism awards for his articles on business and technology at the ACME Awards.

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