Kailash Raj Pandey and Himal Raj Pandey shared their ongoing work and plans to democratize information on career prospects in various fields in the event held on August 19 in Kathmandu. These experiences are shared by executives from leading Tech ventures around Kathmandu while developing a method to teach soft skills through interactive in-person games (Train-the-Trainer Model). Through this, they hope that each student in Nepal from an under-resourced background will be able to get the same information to become successful in their career ahead. Through this program, all the students involved showed a lot of progress in soft skills which as well enhanced their confidence. They were also able to get a clear picture of the career opportunities in Nepal and were able to dream of a better future for themselves.

Reflecting on their own personal experiences, Kailash and Himal recognized that "soft skills" and information on various career opportunities are critical to achieving job/grant/college outcomes after having passed the hurdle of developing core knowledge in a particular subject. They also realized that role models were also crucial in providing them with the right guidance and confidence required at various crossroads of life.

During the past months, these two young men conducted a successful pilot program that taught valuable soft skills to 17 higher secondary students at Kankali Secondary School, a government school located in the western hilly suburb of Kathmandu valley. After some sufficient classroom sessions, they connected the students to executives at leading tech companies in Kathmandu (F1Soft, GrowByData, and Bhoos). Kailash and Himal are currently institutionalizing these efforts to contribute to educational equity by focusing particularly at the high school level and will be sharing their plan at the event. Kailash graduated from Middlebury College in the US with a degree in Computer Science and Economics. He will be joining Harvard Kennedy School in the near future for his graduate study. He has been working at Precision Development, a non-profit led by a Nobel laureate and other experts at the forefront of behavioral economics, where he spearheaded both technical and strategic fronts on the applications of satellite remote sensing for large-scale Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs). His experience also includes investment due diligence for a multimillion-dollar revolving fund that aims to enable thousands of smallholder farmers to improve their livelihoods through climate adaptation. Himal is currently a second-year student at Williams College, MA with an interest in the intersection between Neuroscience and Computer Science. He has worked in microbiology research with a Nobel laureate during his high school, and chronobiology research at college. Both Kailash and Himal are passionate about making systems-level changes in education equity.