Source: Kazi Tahsin Agaz Apurbo

Abrar Jawad and Safwan Rahman, aged 9 and 11 respectively, may look like young playful little boys from the outside, but these two little geniuses went on to becoming two of the most talked about youngsters in the country. One of the highlights of this year's TEDx Dhaka was when Abrar and Safwan took on the stage and dazzled the audience with their knowledge in engineering.
Studying hardware and software engineering at The Tech School, Abrar and Safwan were both avid video gamers. “I was always a game freak. I came across coding, and that's when I decided that I wanted to learn all about it," says Abrar. “I thought of applying to an art school, near where I live. There, I saw another institution above it called WNES (World's Next Education System), which was later named The Tech School, and realised that I could learn all that I wanted over there.” Abrar has been a student there for a
year now.
Safwan, however, says that his sister, a student at the Art school, told him about the Tech School. "She thought it was the perfect place for me,” says Safwan. As interested as he was in gaming, Safwan was also very keen on building and creating. Starting off with just legos, he went on to grow his interest in gaming controls of consoles such as Xbox.
Abrar has been focusing on processing, programming, circuits and graphic design. One of his own projects was to make a DX Ball Game. Meanwhile Safwan's interests lie not only in the area of
coding, circuits and graphics, but also making
gadgets.
The duo is involved in a new project where they will be designing a hybrid car. They are also involved in many complicated projects like making their own GPS trackers, gaming gadgets and more.
The Tech School, situated in Niketon, was founded two years ago by Shams and Neloy, who were both students of Engineering at BRAC University. The school encourages students to think and produce ideas, thereby finding a way to transform these ideas into realities. “There is no way that you can learn engineering from memorising pages from a book,” says Neloy.
Shams nominated both Abrar and Safwan to speak at the TEDx Dhaka this year. During their session, they spoke about the perks of engineering and of being a part of The Tech School. Listening to such young souls talk so passionately about such a complicated subject left the audience in awe and inspired by their drive and motivation.
The boys know exactly what they want to do when they grow up. “I want to work with some of the biggest gaming companies like EA Sports, and go on to make them even bigger!” says Abrar. On the other hand, Safwan says, “I want to work with Abrar!”
Watching the boys brainstorming, creating and taking up difficult challenges with such confidence, we can hope, even more than ever before, for this country to flourish in the future.