NYAS Junior Academy Researcher, Founder of TBA, and ARC 2024 Champion, Nour Highschool
Louay Cherif is a high-school student and a person of determination who believes no limits can stand in the way of achievement. At age fifteen, he led Tunisia’s first initiative to open new learning pathways for blind secondary students, enabling them to pursue computer science and marking a notable milestone for the continent.
His pursuit of excellence earned him second place in the Arab Reading Challenge (Season 8) and leadership of an “Excellence Team” that ranked among the top ten in the New York Academy of Sciences’ Ethical AI Challenge.
To advance equal educational opportunity, he launched the Arab world’s first free six-week program to teach programming to blind learners, after completing the first funded track from the Future Skills Academy. Louay believes age is more than a number and disability is a challenge that drives progress—through knowledge and leadership.