No Fancy Tools, Just Tenacity: Stephen Kolesh’s AI Path to 38 Gold Medals on Zindi

Stephen Kolesh

On the southern fringes of Kenya, in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, a boy once dreamed of becoming a footballer. But a diagnosis of myopia quietly ended that pursuit. 

Medicine, the path his father favoured, was never an option, he couldn’t stomach the sight of blood. By the time Stephen Kolesh walked into the dimly lit computer lab at Oloolaiser High School, he was a teenager with no clear ambition, until he wrote his first line of HTML code.

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