College of Science and Technology(CST)

The project aims at using natural grasses like COUCHGRASS(URWIRI) for transforming the fibers into final useful products. This work uses natural grasses with wooden glue as a binder material and converts them into building materials as MDF.

This innovative project consists in making new material/equipment made out of maize cobs and sisal fibers for manufacturing boards (MDF). The purpose was to examine the general limits within which a satisfactory board can be made with this agricultural residue where this maize cobs are mostly considered as agriculture waste.

The innovation project aims to reinvent the student card, allowing long term data storage and availability through the integration of the new student card (RFID based card) and management system, iCard. The novel idea is replacing all cards used by students by icard.   All information for student will be recorder on this iCard and verified through RFID reader device as the student use his/her card in each of those activities.

Having seen that farmers growing staple crops especially maize growers are constantly suffering from post-harvest losses (22%of total produce), due to poor handling techniques. this project developed a solar powered drying system from recent existing models, and is capable of trapping and fixing incoming solar radiation such that it develops a peak temperature of 50 degree Celsius and dry in three hours, instead of four weeks.

The innovation consists in web app, a repository of high-quality stories in Kinyarwanda for kids in primary schools.  The highly interactive and friendly application recommends resources to students according level of reading, preference and age. At the end of each story, students take quizzes to assess their comprehension. Each teacher can track the progress of their students and hence be able to help them accordingly