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Alekhni teaches high school students how to read, research, and write the way scholars do, and helps them publish pre-prints and original work before they ever set foot on a university campus.

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Most students never learn academic writing in time

Skills such as reading scholarly sources (Jamieson, 2013), asking answerable research questions, and writing your findings up with evidence aren't taught early enough, yet most prestigious university admissions are based on these skills. At university-level, many students feel that academic reading and writing courses are being rushed and the students often fail to produce novel research as part of their theses, in part because many don't encounter real research until the thesis stage itself (Ngutete Mukundwa et al., 2026). Many other universities, especially in the Global South, don't even expect students to write a thesis, which leads to a global research divide (Ngutete Mukundwa et al., 2026). Alekhni is here to bridge this divide. We build genuine confidence in the students to make them independent learners and researchers.

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Our four milestones

The month-long program

An intensive crash course in academic reading and writing, compressed into one focused month.

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Write&Cite

A gamified rich text editor with an integrated citation compiler, tracked changes, and prompts that ask students to explain their edits.

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The Student Journal

A peer-reviewed-style journal, for high schoolers, that assigns a DOI to the best original research, and exposes young researchers to the peer-reviewed academia early on.

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