Rise Fellow 2024

Austrille is a Burkinabe technologist and musician whose mission is to not only better his community, but also plant the seeds for sustainable development. For his Rise project, he created a city-wide hackathon that provides local students with the knowledge and resources to pursue STEM fields and create solutions that uplift Burkina Faso. Austrille plans to study aeronautical science and aerospace engineering in hopes of becoming a pilot in the future.