SABAHAN Kenneth Chong (pic), 22, has been named a Top 10 finalist of the Chegg.org Global Student Prize 2023, a US$100,000 (RM463,000) award to be given to one exceptional student that has made a real impact on learning, the lives of their peers and on society.
The chemical engineering student at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS was selected from 4,000 applications from 122 countries, a press release dated Aug 30 read.
Chong, who is pursuing his tertiary studies under the PETRONAS Education Sponsorship Programme (PESP), developed a passion for innovation and making things in his teens and has been serving as a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) mentor to his peers and juniors at the Tenom Innovation Centre (TIC), a makerspace, ever since his secondary school days.
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