Wilhem Hector

Wilhem arrived in Flekke in 2019 having never seen snow, leaving Haiti for the first time. At RCN he built a mini wind turbine for his Extended Essay. That project turned out to define the next several years: he went to MIT to study Mechanical Engineering, researched wind power modeling, interned at wind energy firms in the US and Denmark, and co-founded the Hector Foundation to expand education access in Haiti. The Foundation has helped over 120 young Haitians access higher education and built the country's first open-use engineering makerspace, designed as a direct alternative to gang recruitment for young people in Port-au-Prince. In 2024 he became the first Haitian national ever named a Rhodes Scholar. He is now at Oxford on an Energy Systems master's, with plans to return to Haiti and build its renewable energy infrastructure. The wind turbine at RCN was not a coincidence.