ASIST's roots reach back to the 1980s and the classroom of our founder's mother — a teacher who believed children learn best by doing. That belief became a philosophy: edutainment, where education and entertainment meet and every lesson ends in something a child has actually built.
In 2015, journalist Arinaitwe Rugyendo brought the global Young Engineers programme to Uganda as a single franchise. What began with LEGO bricks and a handful of curious learners has grown into the African School of Innovations, Science and Technology — an umbrella running six programmes, an innovation hub, a national championship and a pipeline that has carried Ugandan students to world stages in Dallas, Shanghai, Dakar and beyond.
In a century defined by fast change and disruption, we prepare young people not to memorise the world as it is, but to build the world as it could be.
