Senegal

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…