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Young Talents Sub-Saharan Africa L’oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science
The L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Sub-Saharan Africa regional program aims to promote and encourage the participation of young African women in science. This program identifies and rewards young talented researchers in life and environmental sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, computer and information sciences, engineering sciences and technological sciences
Timely Success and Sustainable Early Prosperity
In August 2020, I finished my PhD studies in Information and Communication Sciences and Engineering at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology with the research title “Data Driven Approach for Predicting Student Dropout in Secondary Schools”. Many people have walked with me in this adventure and they surely deserve my greatest gratitude.
Sensitization Event at Kilakala Secondary School
In August 2020, I attended a sensitization event at Kilakala Secondary School in Morogoro organized by the alumnae with the aim of inspiring young girls to discover their purpose in life, growing up with confidence and pursuing their dreams.
NeurIPS Conference in Vancouver, Canada
In December 2019, I had an opportunity to attend the 33rd annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) in Vancouver, Canada. The conference brought together researchers and experts in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) from around the world to present and showcase their work through posters, panel discussion and presentations. I also had a privilege to participate in the Black in AI (BAI) workshop which aims at increasing the presence and participation of black people in the field of AI. This time around, I did an oral presentation on “An Ensemble Predictive Model Based Prototype for Student Drop-out in Secondary Schools”.
Africa Science Week (ASW) celebrations at NM-AIST
On 06th December 2019, I attended ASW celebrations which was hosted at NM-AIST in Arusha. The event was organized by Next Einstein Forum (NEF) for the third time in Tanzania. The main focus was to encourage people of different age groups to get involved and ignite their passion for science and technology across the continent. This time the ASW engaged STEM stakeholders and students from primary, secondary and university in different exciting activities which included: (i) Panel discussion - The state of STEM careers in Africa; what has been the contribution of women (ii) Launching of STEMi Mentorship and Coaching Platform for Africa (STEMi-Africa) (iii) Awarding Tanzanian Women in Science and (iv) Exhibition from various STEM stakeholders.