Kenyan University Students Emerge Winners In annual Global Technology
By Soko Directory Team / Published May 28, 2021 | 1:06 pm KEY POINTS
A team of four Kenyan university students beat stiff competition from 163 countries across the globe to win the 2021 Microsoft’s annual global student technology challenge, Imagine Cup.
A team of four Kenyan university students beat stiff competition from 163 countries across the globe to win the 2021 Microsoft’s annual global student technology challenge, Imagine Cup.
The four, Khushi Gupta, Jeet Gohil, Dharmik Karania, and Abdihamid Ali are fourth-year students from the United States International University (USIU) – Africa, undertaking bachelors in computer science.
They developed an IoT-based infant monitoring solution, REWEBA (Remote Well Baby), which remotely analyzes infant parameters during post-natal screening and serves as an early warning intervention system. The team won USD75,000 (approximately KES8 million), a
Mending fray in my career fabric
Friday May 28 2021
By JACKSON BIKO
Summary
Ms Mungai studied at Fashion College International, Evelyn College of Design, and later did an International Business Administration degree from the United States International University (USIU)-Africa.
By some stroke of design, irony or the universe s intervention, she married the son of the founder of Evelyn College of Design where she lectured after her training.
As a former student, lecturer, and now director she has been with the school for 30 years.
“There was always a sewing machine in our house,” says Molly Mungai, the director at Evelyn College of Design. Her memory of childhood is filled with the incessant sound of a Singer sewing machine as her mom made and mended clothes.