We Build. We Ship.
Pawashell is a student-led coding club in KNUST's Department of Computer Science where members build and ship real software, including open source tools, products, and contributions, instead of only coursework.
Why Pawashell?
Most Computer Science students graduate having written a lot of code, but very little of it ever gets shipped to real users. Pawashell exists to close that gap. We provide a space for students to pick real projects and build them properly, caring as much about the discipline of finishing and shipping software as the code itself.
What we build
Open source tools
Developer tools, libraries, and utilities built in the open and released for public use.
Real-world products
Functional applications and systems engineered to solve practical problems for real users.
Open contributions
Direct contributions and improvements to active open-source projects and software ecosystems.
Research infrastructure
Specialized infrastructure platforms and tooling designed to support student and academic research.
Projects
Problem Solved
Research activity at KNUST is scattered across outdated staff directories with no real index of who's working on what, while institutional journal subscriptions become inaccessible the moment researchers step off campus. Research Atlas addresses both: a searchable, filterable directory indexes researchers, departments, research themes, and publications (backed by Prisma/PostgreSQL and synced with OpenAlex/CrossRef-style metadata), while the Journal Proxy lets AIM-authenticated students and staff submit article URLs or DOIs to a processing queue for retrieval through KNUST's existing subscriptions (starting with IEEE Xplore).