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Charting Kenya's course for the future using the stars

Susan Murabana a Kenyan astronomer and co - founder of Traveling Telescope, teaches students how to make robots. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Maureen Wairimu could barely contain herself when we caught up with her after seeing the moon up-close.

And no, the Form Three students had not travelled to the orb. She was right here in Kenya, at her school, Musa Gitau Girls’ Secondary School in Kiambu County.

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