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Rise Fellow 2024

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2024 fellow

Maha Zahida Nawaz

Pakistan

Maha Nawaz is a Pakistani techpreneur and inventor who designs and develops robotic kits for young girls in rural Pakistan to expose them to mechatronics and engineering. Along with achieving the highest marks in three GCSE subjects and winning CS and Olympiad awards, Maha co-founded the largest AI hackathon for students in the Middle East and created a mind-controlled prosthetic that she hopes will empower those with paralysis or amputations in the future.