15-year-old Eshan Wabara, a student at Roots Junior Secondary School in Nakuru with his teacher Boaz Kiplangat at the computer lab. [Caroline Chebet, Standard]
Teen develops website to help teachers, parents interact
Education
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Caroline Chebet
| Sep 07, 2025
For 15-year-old Eshan Wabara, enduring the prolonged school annual meetings often felt like an endless parade of announcements.
Often, the meetings would dwell on the school's progress, achievements, upcoming activities, and academic results, items that the grade 9 student at Roots Junior Secondary School in Nakuru thought could be solved using technology.
Fuelled by the passion to cut short these meetings, Eshan started to code in order to build a website that would collate all the school information and solve problems that parents, teachers, and learners had to endure.
"I realised that announcements take a lot of time during the school annual meetings, and most of us would get tired. I then decided to put to use the coding skills and built a website which will enable parents to access all the information on time,” Eshan said.
Being a member of the Coding Club at school, the learner has been perfecting his skills and has now revolutionised how parents to access their children’s academic progress reports with a simple click.
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The website also has features that allow fellow learners to stay engaged with learning through interactive games and quizzes.
Among the educational games he has incorporated on his website are spelling bees, mathematics quizzes, and testing typing speed.
“These games liven up the website. It does not have to be all boring,” he says.
Eshan has also created features where teachers can load quizzes and set time for students.
“The school can also reduce costs for parents by loading holiday work on the website rather than spending extra money on purchasing the holiday homework books,” he says.
Among the features that stands out from his website, which currently runs remotely, is the incorporation of AI.
“Through Roots Bot, one of the features on the website, anyone who wants to access the information about the school can get answers promptly. They can get information on directions, enrolment and even general performance of the school without necessarily visiting the school,” Eshan said.
And now the school is in the process of acquiring the website designed by a learner who is already walking the path which he wants to perfect in future as a software programmer.
Collins Odhiambo, the school principal said that as part of supporting innovation and creativity among learners, the school is planning to acquire the project.
“The current breed of young, innovative learners requires space and resources to exploit their talent. We are impressed that learners are proactive in noting the gaps and coming with innovative ways to solve exiting challenges. The school is soon adopting this system as part of commercialising talent,” Mr Odhiambo said.
Boaz Kiplangat, a Coding and Robotics teacher at the school said that learners need to be exposed to learning technology at a younger age especially with the current trends in a modernised world.
“Children are never too young to learn to develop these technologies. As much as the curriculum majorly emphasises these courses to be taken at higher learning institutions, it is better to prepare them at a younger age to be able to catch up with the rest of the world,” Kiplangat said.
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