Seyram Letsu ’30 has long been fascinated by the process of turning an idea into something real. That interest has followed her through student leadership, teaching, and coding, and now into her decision to study Mechatronic Engineering at Ashesi.

At Keta Senior High School, Letsu explored what it meant to turn ideas into action through student leadership. After joining the Student Representative Council (SRC) in her second year, she was elected General Secretary in her third year. She and her colleagues had plans for the school, including an entrepreneurship club and a system to preserve records of student leadership and achievements.

Not all of their ideas could be implemented, but the experience taught her that ideas need more than enthusiasm to become a reality.

After graduating in 2024, Letsu returned to the basic school she had attended and taught mathematics. The experience taught her patience and how to break down ideas so that younger students could understand them.

“There’s nothing too complex to actually explain,” she says. “You can explain something so far as you understand.”

She later became one of the first participants in a coding program that a friend started as a community initiative. The program introduced young people to computers and coding. It helped them see that computers could be used to create aside basic tasks such as typing. As the program grew, Letsu helped recruit and interview new participants, giving her an opportunity to guide others as they began exploring coding.

Her experiences with coding and engineering-related projects strengthened her interest in Mechatronic Engineering, a field she sees as a way to bring together her love of building, mathematics, programming, and problem-solving. Letsu is particularly interested in artificial intelligence and the need for people to understand its limitations. She believes developers have a responsibility to consider how the technologies they create are used and wants to develop the technical understanding to contribute thoughtfully to that conversation. As she begins her journey at Ashesi, Letsu is looking forward to learning from people with different perspectives, and discovering where her interests might lead.

She does not yet know exactly what she wants to build or the kind of engineer she will become. What she does know is that building something meaningful requires more than an idea. It takes understanding, learning, collaboration, and a willingness to keep turning possibilities into something real.