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Over 40,000 users on a STEM site he built alone
Eyosias Eyob Kifle created STEM bridge Ethiopia by himself, a website with a virtual lab, textbooks, past exams and an opportunities section, and it now has over 40,000 users.
Mix two chemicals and see what happens. Build your own generator and work out electromagnetism from it. Run a probability experiment. On STEM bridge Ethiopia, students do all of this in a virtual interactive lab, built with python and HTML5, that simulates real-life STEM scenarios.
Eyosias Eyob Kifle, a high school student at School of tomorrow, built the site for Ethiopian students from middle school to university level. He created and promoted it by himself, and he filtered and added all of the virtual labs, the resources and the opportunities on it himself. It currently has more than 40,000 users.
“That's when I came up with an idea to add something to the environment that can reduce this problem by using my python, next.js and other web developing skills.”
Eyosias Eyob Kifle
The lab is one of four sections. A resources section holds the main curriculum and supplementary textbooks, past national exams and past international exams like the SAT. An opportunity section is where he posts scholarships, internships and researches, so that anyone using the site has free access to them. The last is a built-in AI he named STEM bridge AI, connected to the Gemini 3.5 flash model, which he says gives "brief, detailed, precise and most likely accurate answers" to STEM questions.
He is a STEM lover, he says, and what he kept seeing was that "educational resources access is very low in my country."
Since we are living in the digital era, he says, a website was the form it took.
"So this is the project I'm currently working on just by myself," he says.