Recognition
Awards, leadership and credentials
Competition results, roles people trusted me with, and the credentials behind my skills. Where a record is public, it is linked.
Awards
- May 2026
3rd Place, Claude Hackathon
Claude Builder Club, KNUST
Top project at the KNUST Claude Builder Club Hackathon.
- Mar 2026
- 2026
Selected, HIFest 2026
Mastercard Foundation Africa Health Collaborative
One of 37 ventures chosen competitively across nine partner institutions.
- Jan 2026
1st Place, JHS category, RAIL Phase II Robotics Challenge
RAIL KNUST
Won by the Opoku Ware M/A JHS team, which I trained and mentored.
- 2026
Erasmus+ Scholar
JUNIA ISEN
- Aug 2025
- Jul 2025
Winner, Rising Star Award
Black Sisters in STEM
- Dec 2024
Francis Faki Amanquah Foundation Scholarship
Francis Faki Amanquah Foundation
For academic excellence and leadership as a female Computer Engineering student.
- 2024 to 2025
Silver Award, Africa Division
China International College Students' Innovation Competition
- 2024
Coached teams to 2nd and 5th, Ghana Robotics Competition 2024
FireflyIO
- Aug 2023
Winner, Ghana Robotics Competition
St. Louis SHS
Led the school's first ever team to win the national title.
- 2023
2nd Place, Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship Challenge
Ministry of Education, Ghana
An agricultural technology solution. GHS 5,000 prize.
- 2020
Overall Best Student
Opoku Ware M/A JHS
1st of 152 in the JHS 3 mock examinations.
- 2019
5th Place, IT Training Challenge
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Foundation
- 2019
2nd Place, OLAG RoboFest
OLAG
Leadership
Newest first. The roles closest to my engineering work are highlighted.
- Mar 2026 to Oct 2026Technical Lead, HackerRank Campus Crew, KNUST
- 2026 to PresentMember & Builder, Claude Builder Club, KNUST
- Oct 2025 to Sep 2026Robotics Committee Chairperson, ACES KNUST
- Oct 2025 to Sep 2026Judicial Committee Departmental Chairperson, ACES KNUST
- Oct 2025 to Sep 2026Deputy Publicity Head, GESA
- Sep 2025 to Aug 2026General Secretary, AKATASLOPSA-KNUST
- Jul 2025 to Aug 2026Chairperson, IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society, KNUST Student Branch ChapterChaired IMPACT 2026 (17 to 18 July 2026): over 300 participants, among the largest student-led technical programmes at KNUST, with speakers from IEEE IMS Global including Prof. Shervin Shirmohammadi. Also organised technical sessions teaching students Arduino hardware programming and web development.
- May 2025 to Sep 2026Global Pathways Participant, SEO Africa
- Jan 2025 to Dec 2025Head of Academic Board, GESA WOCOM Office
- 2025Panelist, ARISE 2025, African Robotics and Intelligent Sensing Expo (IEEE IMS)
- 2025Robotics Competition Judge, ARISE 2025, African Robotics and Intelligent Sensing Expo (IEEE IMS)
- 2025Judge, Ghana Robotics Competition 2025
- Dec 2024 to Dec 2025General Secretary, Women in Engineering, KNUST
- Jan 2024 to PresentMember, ACES-KNUST Robotics Club
- Jul 2022 to Jul 2023Head Girl & SRC President, St. Louis Senior High SchoolAs SRC President, led a student body of over 2,000. Also STEM President and Robotics Team Lead, leading the team that won the 2023 Ghana Robotics Competition.
Certifications and courses
CertificationAWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)
Amazon Web Services, Jun 2026
Score 827 / 1000. Valid to June 2029.
Verify (opens in a new tab)- Course
Python Zero to Hero: Master Coding with Real Projects
Udemy, Nov 2025
- Course
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
AWS Training & Certification, Sep 2025
- Course
Mastering C & C++ Programming
Udemy, May 2025
- Course
Git & GitHub for Beginners
Udemy, May 2025
- Course
Prompt Engineering for Everyone
IBM Cognitive Class, May 2025
CourseAWS Educate: Introduction to Cloud 101
Amazon Web Services, 2025
- Course
Website Development Bootcamp
AmaliTech, Nov 2024
CertificationAWS re/Start Graduate
Amazon Web Services
- Course
PCB Design and Fabrication for Beginners
Alison
Course completed.
- Membership
IEEE Student Member
IEEE Ghana Section