Electronics are for everyone at St Paul’s African House

The program is open to any young people in the community, with no hard limits on age.

An information session will be held at 4pm on Saturday, June 27 at St Paul’s African House on Poplar Ave.

Jean-Marie Mupenda is running the program alongside retired engineer Denys Parnell.

Mr Mupenda’s interest in electronics was inspired by their meeting after they discovered a shared love of mathematics and science.

Since then, Mr Mupenda has learnt how to build devices that he now wishes to teach young people so they “understand how this works and can design their own project, something even I couldn’t think of”.

Mr Mupenda said that if young people found a love for electronics and programming “they can choose it as a career”.

He encouraged anyone interested to come along to the information session to hear more and to take a look at the devices participants could make.

Mr Mupenda said the program was suitable for complete beginners.

“You don’t have to have a high level of maths or education,” he said.

The information session will also be an opportunity to find the best time and day for the program to run to suit as many people as possible.