Sofie Roux

Sofie cares deeply about girls’ access to high quality education in STEAM fields. She’s a sophomore Undergraduate at Stanford studying architecture and engineering, which she hopes to apply to a lifetime in sustainable global development. She loves exploring the intersections of design with energy, public policy and entrepreneurship. Sofie is the founder of BloomBox Design Labs, her public benefit company for girls’ education, which installs solar powered computer labs built out of repurposed shipping containers at high schools in Sub-Saharan Africa. She leads their design and manufacturing in South Africa, Malawi and the US. Her company will be launching the SuperBloom Global Knowledge Network App in March to connect students around the world through short videos about their big questions. In her free time she loves to run, spend time with her family, make art, create playlists for her friends, build structures, and read about business and philosophy.

About BloomBox

BloomBox brings access to high-quality education resources in off-grid, secure, solar-powered learning environments to support equitable education in remote locales of Africa. BloomBoxes are solar-powered computer learning labs built from repurposed shipping containers that are configured into inviting indoor/outdoor maker spaces, and equipped with technology with the primary goal to support girls’ access to STEAM education where its needed most.