"The first time we heard about this opportunity was during the 58th session of COPUOS." Dr. John Kimani, the Kenya Space Agency lead scientist. "One of the biggest achievements by the exercise and the offer by UNOOSA and JAXA is the awareness. We were explaining to primary schools, secondary schools, colleges and universities that we were working with the University of Nairobi to develop and launch our first cubesat. That created a lot of excitement in schools and it made students start thinking about subjects they could focus on to end up in the space technology industry."
"Having this cubeSat in orbit changes everything. 5-6 years ago, this was for us a project without much credibility. Now the question we get is when are we going to deploy another satellite. The project caused a change in attitude among the university students, they do not see these ideas anymore as something illusory or unrealistic as they did before, but rather as something possible."  "The Same thing is happening on a wider scale in Guatemala" Victor Hugo Ayerdi, co- principal investigator from University del Valle de Guatemala.