Said Shabani Hozza

STEM Educator & TME Education Ambassador

+255684736765, 21109, Iringa, TZ.

About

Passionate STEM educator and social innovator with 6+ years of experience in advancing electronics, IoT, and drone technology education across Tanzania. As a TME Education Ambassador and Founder of Taifa Technovation Hub, he has empowered over 10,000 youth, especially young women, through hands-on, scalable STEM programs, including the national Girls in ICT Day 2026 drone bootcamps. Skilled in curriculum design, technical training, event coordination, and educational leadership.

Has secured and managed grants from the Mastercard Foundation, Foundation Botnar, Tanzania Universal Communications Service Access Fund (UCSAF), and Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA), and represents Tanzania in international policy dialogue as a Danida Fellow (2026), TME Education Tanzania Ambassador, and EU Youth Sounding Board Member.

Areas of expertise include EdTech curriculum design, hands-on technical training, gender-transformative programme delivery, donor reporting, and multi-stakeholder partnership management.

Work

TME Education (Transfer Multisort Elektronik)

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TME Education Ambassador – Tanzania

Iringa, Iringa, Tanzania, United Republic of

Summary

Driving practical electronics and STEM education across Tanzania through program implementation, mentorship, and community-building.

Highlights

Led Arduino-based electronics and technical training at Ifunda Technical School, empowering 150 students, including 60 female participants, to pursue STEM fields ([tmeeducation.com](https://tmeeducation.com/en-ZZ/page/64190/changing-futures-through-developing-young-minds-impact-in-january-2025?utm_source=openai)).

Coordinated Girls in ICT Day 2026: trained 186 secondary school girls from 25+ regions in modular drone technology, with over 85% competence rate and 31 finalists in the national competition ([tmeeducation.com](https://www.tmeeducation.com/en-ZZ/page/77368/tme-education-expands-practical-stem-learning-across-regions-in-april-2026?utm_source=openai)).

Taifa Technovation Hub

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Co‑Founder & Director

Iringa, Iringa, Tanzania, United Republic of

Summary

Led a makerspace-focused NGO delivering STEM education, digital innovation, drone training, and capacity-building for young people—especially girls—in Tanzania.

Highlights

Partnered with TME Education to equip the makerspace with quality STEM tools for hands-on learning in electronics, robotics and prototyping ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tatechhub_arduino-tmeeducationtanzania-stemeducation-activity-7375885981582983168-Cdxo?utm_source=openai)).

Commissioned by the Tanzanian government (UCSAF and TCRA) to design and lead the Girls in ICT 2026 Regional Bootcamp—reaching 186 girls across five zones in eight days, using drones, coding, and robotics ([tz.linkedin.com](https://tz.linkedin.com/in/saidhozza?utm_source=openai)).

Hubiquitous H2020

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IoT Trainer

Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

Summary

Facilitated specialized training in Internet of Things technologies for educational and development programs in Belgium.

Createch Tanzania

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Co‑Founder & Operations Lead

Tanga, Tanga, Tanzania, United Republic of

Summary

Co‑founded a higher education startup in Tanga focused on engineering education and community-based technology initiatives.

Volunteer

Youth Sounding Board Member

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Delegation of the European Union to Tanzania and East Africa

Advising EU-Tanzania cooperation programs by integrating youth perspectives into policy, empowering young voices in multi-annual joint agendas.

Education

Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT)

Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of

Diploma Electronics Engineering

Tanga Technical School

Tanga, Tanga, Tanzania

Jan 2019

Technical/ Vocational Training Vocational Training major in Electrical and Electronics

Skills

EdTech & STEM Curriculum Development

Curriculum Design, Training Workshops, Educational Consulting.

Technical Writing & Educational Communications

Articles, Tutorials, Stakeholder Engagement.

IoT and Electronics Hardware

Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Embedded Systems, Modular Drone Technology.

Leadership, Communications and Stakeholder Engagement

ICT Capacity building Bootcamp Coordination, Project Management, Youth Empowerment Program Designing.

Digital Tools & Software

KoBo Toolbox and Google Forms, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Google Workspace, Notion.

References

Maria Spink

Chief Executive Officer of Lyra in Africa, an international NGO delivering education and empowerment programmes for women and girls in Tanzania. Has known me through joint community and youth-focused work in the Iringa region and can speak to my programme delivery, partnership approach, and community-level impact on the ground.

Eng. Walter Noe Minja

Chairperson of Taifa Technovation Hub's Board of Directors and Equipment Development Engineer at Tesla Inc., Silicon Valley. Provides governance oversight of my work as Executive Director of TaifaTek and can speak to my technical background in electronics and hardware development, organisational leadership, and strategic decision-making in scaling the organisation.