Ugandan innovator Leonard Alvin Kabwama will be training at NASA

Ugandan young innovator and co-founder of Innovex, Alvin Leonard Kabwama has landed a training deal with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) research centre in Silicon Valley, USA, where he will be joining researchers at Singularity University for a period of 8 weeks.

Alvin Kabwama is the cofounder of Innovex, a company which describes itself as being at the heart of developing Africa’s next generation of embedded technologies, and who aims to train and equip the youth with skills in electronics hardware and pertinent software. The company offers solutions for monitoring energy systems, custom-built drone and robotics applications, as well as medical diagnostic, monitoring and therapeutic systems.

Alvin is famous for innovations such as a bomb detection robot, an automated disinfection chamber, and a novel radiation-based urine diagnostic test. He got exposed to robotics while he was still in high school at St. Mary’s College Kisubi in Uganda.

Over the past six years, Kabwama has been consistent with is innovations, and has gone ahead to be recognized by the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) and the East Africa robotics competition.

While at NASA,  for his eight-week intensive product design and development training, Kabwama will get an opportunity to interact and network with other world class innovators as well as share ideas with them to better his products back in Uganda.

Young Africans are the future of the continent. African innovators are taking the bull by its horns and showing the world that innovations can come from Africa. Best of luck Alvin !

Source: thisisafrica.me