Pacis Nkubito

Taught web development to 56 first-time coders across Rwanda in a four-week summer tech camp.

• Taught HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to 56 students aged 12 to 18 from across Rwanda, most of whom had never used a computer before.
• Guided students from spotting a problem in their own community to a working prototype and a pitch they could take to investors.
• Introduced embedded systems at the camp for the first time: in one week, students wired up Arduino boards, motors, and sensors to build self-driving cars.
• Connected students to Rwanda's One Million Coders program with free W3Schools and freeCodeCamp resources toward international certificates.

Researched how American tech investment is shaping Kenya's tech sector, from outsourced data labeling to homegrown startup hubs.

• Studied Kenya's tech sector on the ground in Nairobi, comparing outsourced data-labeling work to homegrown hubs like iHub, which has incubated 450+ startups.
• Found that some data-labeling subcontractors pay as little as $2 an hour on short-term contracts, while Google alone has put over $217,000 into iHub's mentorship and workshop programs.
• Argued that Kenya's Digital SuperHighway Agenda, its plan for 100,000 km of fiber and digitized government services, needs wage and labor audits alongside the infrastructure investment.