ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2025
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 60,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2025 on 7,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 290+ campuses worldwide (less than 5%) were selected to host the 4,500+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT DISMAS KARIMI NYAWIRA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology | Juja, Kenya | Advancing SDG 11, SDG 13, SDG 9 & UNAI 3
" Being part of Millennium Fellowship class of 2025 will enable me grow both social, cultural and on technical basis. Leadership training and collaboration with various parties will allow me become more creative and more affirmative in working on projects. I am so excited for this opportunity and look forward to meeting the whole team either virtual or physically. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Circular Additive Manufacturing of Polyolefin Waste
This project entails collecting waste that has been disposed and yet cannot decompose and then transform it into small pellets at first which is done by takataka solutions, a company I visited and had discussions with on the viability of this project earlier this year. The polyolefins are then either crashed into powder form or transformed into filaments that can be used in binder jetting or fused filament deposition respectively to produce common consumer products or household products such as serving spoons, mugs, plates among other items. This not only reduces the plastic waste on the environment but also creates a circular economy that is sustainable in that the waste become useful products with no entry or exit of resources in to or from the ecosystem respectively.
About the Millennium Fellow
Dismas Karimi Nyawira is a multi talented scholar and engineer currently pursuing Bachelor of science in Mechatronics Engineering at JKUAT. He was born and raised in Kenya and is a proud African. He loves innovating and creating technologies that help sustain life and create a circular economy so as to preserve human life and adhere to the overall goal of service to humanity. It is his joy when his peers and those who look up to him gain new insights on how to create social impact upon his mentorship and interaction. Finally, Dismas is a multicultural enthusiast who believes in cultural diversity. He aims to gain leadership skills from this fellowship and steer towards achieving the UN SDGs.
