How They Learned: Betelhem Dessie & Binette Seck about tech education

Betelhem Dessie is the youngest tech pioneer in Ethiopia, starting her IT career by the age of 9. She is today 20 years old and a co-founder/CEO of iCog ACC (Anyone Can Code). Amongst many of her brilliant accomplishments, she has educated thousands of students in Artificial Intelligence, developed and copyrighted four software programs. We are also joined by Binette Seck, who is a partner to Betelhem and the reason she traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, to educate 70 students in coding.This episode has indeed left us with an overwhelmingly positive outlook on the future, hope it does the same for you!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/learnability. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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