Randy Philips Nyimier: The Rising Star of Life-Changing Innovations and Sports

“In the next ten years, I want to revolutionize education and healthcare in Kenya and inspire a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs,” Randy says.

KISUMU, Kenya, 30th November –At 17 years old, Randy Philips Nyimier is proving to be an indefatigable trailblazer in innovation and sporting activities, defying the odds despite being dyslexic, a condition that he manages and navigates every day.

What with the ever-evolving world of Artificial Intelligence(AI) evolution, from creating the Study Genius App, inventing Robotics and Trigonometry for the Blind, to being one of the most sought-after Public Speakers and excelling in on-field sporting activities?

He is a beacon of hope to the young and budding innovators locally and across the globe.

In his tell-it-all exclusive interview with The Eyes Watch at a Kisumu hotel recently, Randy is sending a poignant message: “I came and am ready to conquer the world no matter the hurdles that come with it.”

“My favourite subject is actually Information Communications and Technology (ICT). I fell in love with ICT from a very young age. I’ve been in DHT Kisumu Senior Academy for nearly my entire educational life,” he opens up as his face gleamed with confidence. 

“I studied in Mahavir Nursery School,” Randy continued, explaining that he also attended Kisumu Junior, then graduated to Kisumu Senior, where he is currently in Form 5, pursuing A Levels, and will be finishing in 2027.

Drawing inspiration from his being dyslexic, and as a Mr Fix-It, he has developed a web application christened “Study Genius,” which is designed to help students learn and understand complex concepts with ease. 

“My loving parents usually get me a lot of tutors, and I realised it might be getting expensive. So I thought of a solution: what if I create a tutor who’s willing to listen to me and track my progress?” he posed as a few monkeys jumped around from one tree to another at the lakefront city hotel.

That idea birthed the creation of the app, which saw him take all his textbooks from Year 7 up to Year 11: that’s Form 4.

“I then trained my AI to learn how to teach using the textbook and examine students. I wanted to create something that would help students like me, who struggle with certain subjects,” Randy explains.

“The app is specifically curated to guide IGCE and Cambridge curricula students covering various subjects. It has step-by-step chapter solutions, providing clear explanations, practice exercises (mini quizzes), and to reinforce their deep conceptual understanding rather than providing direct answers,” he explained.

“If a student can’t read and write quite well, they can speak to it and then it will speak back to read out the text which has been written for them.”

To make it an invaluable tool for students, the app is linked to popular textbooks and can even track students’ progress, allowing teachers to monitor their performance and provide targeted support.

According to Randy the developer, a student can input a specific question from any chapter, and the app will guide them through the problem-solving process.

“In each chapter, students encounter mini-quizzes. A student can request help with a specific question, for example, “Chapter five, question five,” and the app will navigate to that problem and offer structured guidance,” he assuredly said.

This functionality also positions the app as an effective homework assistant, because it is integrated with the curriculum’s textbooks.

A vital innovation of the app, is its dynamic curriculum. To address the challenge of outdated textbooks, particularly in fields like agriculture where data changes with climate patterns, the app continuously updates its content. This also applies to subjects like mathematics and physics, where new problem-solving techniques are regularly developed. 

“This ensures Kenyan students have access to the most current global knowledge, a crucial step in mitigating the ‘brain drain’ by equipping them to compete internationally,” Randy remarked.

He emphasised a rigorous approach to content integrity, as he revealed spending a month understanding copyright laws to avoid plagiarism. “All textbooks are stored in a cloud-based system.”

On the app’s uptake, it is registering great progress, as piloting within Randy’s school has yielded positive feedback. The embrace from his peers report that the app clarifies complex topics, even influencing their confidence in certain subjects. 

Teachers and administrators led by the Principal, Ms Prabu Prabula, have also reviewed it, acknowledging its potential while advising further testing to ensure accuracy, as with any AI system that can occasionally contain errors.

Accessibility to the app is managed through a freemium model. Free users can sample one chapter, while a premium subscription, priced at Sh 1,500 per month, grants unlimited access to all chapters and quizzes. To protect the intellectual property before a wider rollout, the app is currently limited to the developer’s school circle.

“The next step is to secure a patent before expanding to other institutions, a process complicated by the need to digitize other curricula, such as the Curricula Based Courses (CBC) system widely used in Kenya, which often lacks available soft copies of textbooks,” he said with optimism.

Full of ambitions, Randy sees the app as a tool to transform education in Kenya by providing students with continuously updated, high-quality learning resources. 

Robotics: Revolutionising Healthcare

The tech-savvy Randy’s passion for innovation extends to healthcare, where he’s developed a robot designed to transport medication and medical supplies within health facilities in urban and rural areas. The robot, which is in its Trial Stages, reduces the risk of infection transmission and frees up healthcare professionals to focus on more critical tasks.

“I felt concerned with the unexpected number of healthcare workers who were lost during the COVID-19 scourge. Nobody expected it to happen, and nobody expected such a large influx of patients. So, I thought, what if we find a more efficient way to ensure patients are well taken care of, and then doctors are safe while taking care of these patients? he quipped.

After much thinking, he envisioned using a machine or robot that does not contract any disease. Randy says that a cursory look at the data, the number of times doctors were washing their hands in COVID-19 was not enough.

“Our main aim is to help minimise pandemics or emergencies where we don’t have enough healthcare for people, since robots don’t contract diseases. Hospitals are actually a hotspot for diseases, so COVID-19 will be shallow,” he postulates. 

Elaborating on the exponential impact it will have in the health sector, he adds that: “If it makes contact with any disease, it can be easily cleaned up using chemicals or radiation. It doesn’t get tired and works 24/7. The robots reduce healthcare workers losing their lives from being in direct contact with patients.”

Randy says that this helps them not feel overburdened with the large influx of patients: “Some need medications to be taken to them due to urgent assistance.”

“I don’t want patients to feel that if they go to a hospital, that’s where they might lose their life to getting contracted.”

With his astuteness in mathematical science, he also came up with Trigonometry for the Blind, a project to assist Persons Living with Disability (PWDs) in their school learning. 

In the Mathematical Science category, on 26th April, 2023, he was awarded a certificate for presenting his project at the National Kenya Science and Engineering Fair held at Kisumu Girls High School for his project’s efforts.

Randy has won several awards such as at the Kenya Science and Engineering Mathematics (Nyeri 2023) for Young Scientists Kenya. He is ready to partner and collaborate with the IGCSE learning institutions, state and non-state actors to actualise these innovations.

To conserve our ecosystem, Randy intones that the environment is a very important thing in our lives. It’s the heart of our ecosystem. 

“Without trees, water won’t flow around the world. Without trees, nutrients won’t be absorbed, impacting our ability to produce new foods and more. Plants have truly influenced me because nature is beautiful.

“A friend of mine was making a project that could collect garbage from drainages, so I was willing to help him with a project that helps collect garbage from drainages.”

In using STEM to champion for Climate Change solutions, Randy presented a project during the 7th Young Scientists Kenya National Science and Technology Exhibition.

It took place in partnership with the National Research Fund, for the inaugural Kenya National Research Festival at the Edge Convention Centre from 19th -23rd August,2024.

Sporting Activities

Randy’s interests extend beyond technology; he has taken to on-field sporting activities with aplomb and gusto, living to prove a testimony that all work without play makes Jack a dull boy.

From swimming, rugby, football, to athletics, he continues to shatter records with passion, and support from her parents, siblings, tutors and schoolmates.

His advice to those who are going into sports is that there are two factors needed: to love the competition and the fans.

“My family members are my number one fans and cheerleaders who are always gracing my sporting competitions. Every time I always hear them chant my name, I develop courage and enthusiasm to win,” he remarked wth satisfaction.

Randy’s sterling local and national performances in swimming 50-metre breast races (his favourite), alongside playing water polo, are not only awe-inspiring but also a testament to his determination like a mule.

“Breaststroke is the swimming style that I am best suited for because it needs hand, eye, and leg coordination. I have been taught different tactics and ways on when to pull up, kick, and push that require a lot of coordination. The complexity makes it more fun,” he said as he mentioned Michael Phelps (former World and Olympic gold medalist), as his role model.

Thanks to swimming, he has travelled to different locations, and engaged different coaches “who have trained his body to the maximum and  fullest, making his body ready for any sport.”

He has also participated in the Heart and  Cancer Run, which was graced by Kenya’s 100 metres great Ferdinand Omanyalla, held in 2023 and 2025 in Kisumu City.

They say music is a therapy to soothe the mind, body and soul; the young Randy isn’t left out either. He was among his schoolmates who showcased their prowess in an Indian Dance performance, earning them a third-place slot during a Kenya Music Festival held in Nyeri,2024.

Entrepreneurship

The second-born son to Juliet and Philip Nyimier, who both have long and chequered careers in entrepreneurship, is a brother to Ryan (eldest), among sisters Krystal, Krystianah and Tatyanah.

Following in the footsteps of his ever-loving parents, he believes that entrepreneurship is about taking calculated risks and finding innovative solutions to real-world problems.

“I’ve tried various ventures, from forex trading to selling jewellery to different students in multiple activities I engage in,” he says. “But my passion is using technology to drive positive change.”

Randy has occasionally lent a hand in their hardware supplies shop located within Kisumu’s CBD, and a greenhouse where they cultivate crop varieties like capsicum, tomatoes, eggplant (aubergine), among others.

Mother Nature, he observes, is truly beautiful, and that’s how he even fell in love with agriculture.

“Agriculture is doing what God blessed, that is the earth. It’s basically appreciating what has been blessed for us, and that is the earth.”

Just like his other siblings, her mother, Juliet Osir, says that as a family, they always strive to provide all the necessary support to Randy to hit all the ceilings he desires.

“Ni sagodi tu (it’s with God’s grace), we have seen him overcome a lot in his life, and now he is morphing into a promising young man. His tutors and classmates have been fantastic and we appreciate their efforts,” she intoned with a chuckle, looking at Randy with admiration during the interview.

Dyslexia is a common neurological condition that affects approximately 20 percent of people across different cultures. It’s a specific learning disability that affects reading, writing, and spelling due to difficulties with phonological processing, or connecting sounds to letters and words. 

In his parting shot to the fellow youths, Randy encouraged them to always believe in themselves: “I always think about things differently and try out these things and see what happens.”

In this way, he points out that the unknown can give you more than the known, because everybody knows about it. 

“But, doing something that people are scared of doing will yield you more,” he stressed.

In the next ten years, Randy ambitiously concludes that, he wants to revolutionize education and healthcare in Kenya and inspire a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs.