I received an award from the Cornell CS Department for my work at the Association of Computer Science Undergraduates (ACSU) as the Corporate Chair.
Throughout the school year, I helped in building a strong undergraduate community and fostering off-campus relationships with companies.
During my 5th semester at Cornell, I took CS 4154 (Introduction to Analytical Game Design), and made a game called Viridian along with 5 other people (Alan Pascual, Brandon Zhang, Justin Lue, Urael Xu, and Yanying (Mary) Ji).
Our second public release of the game, which involved A/B testing on level design and difficulty, was published on Newgrounds for the world to play. We got featured on the front page of the website within 3 days for the month of November.
The Government of Botswana award full scholarships to students who performed well in their high school exams (primarily IGCSE and A-Levels) to go to any tertiary program in the world.
As a global ambassador of Botswana, I uphold the values and teachings I grew up with.
During my 4th semester at Cornell, I took CS 3152 (Introduction to Game Architecture and Design), and made a game called OutOfSync along with 5 other people (Alan Pascual, Luke Shin, Brandon Zhang, Cathy Liu, and Sarah Skrutskie).
At the GDIAC showcase 2018, an annual showcase where student games and projects are shocased and voted upon by attendees, we won the “Most Innovative Game” award for our action, strategy platformer.
The ICT Linkz Challenge is an interschool competition for all high schools in Botswana that focuses on Computing topics. I was captain of the Maru-A-Pula Botho College ICT Linkz Challenge Competition in both 2012 and 2013, where our team was declared the winner.
I came 1st in the IT Innovation/Working model category in 2013 for making an animatronic robotic hand (a robotic hand that moves based on the human hand controlling it) that could help people working in dangerous situations such as in mines. I developed the project further in 2014.
I was declared Africa’s Best Game Programmer in the years 2013 and 2014. In 2013, I won first place out of 708 contestants from different African countries in a month long contest that had 3 stages of elimination. The prize was to work as a programmer for Mojang AB, a Swedish video games company, on their famous game, Minecraft, as part of the Minecraft Code Developers Group, where I reported bugs and worked on mods.
In 2014, I successfully defended my position in the second iteration of the competition, where there were 1567 contestants in 6 elimination rounds, and won game making software and an opportunity to talk to top game developers of the video gaming industry at Gamescom and Pax Prime.
Cornell University 2016 - 2020
Maru-A-Pula School 2011 - 2016 Highschool CV