By age 17, Prosper had earned eight Alison diplomas. His training record now lists 14 certificates overall, including later course certificates from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU) in Xi’an and Saylor Academy. His record also includes seven subject distinctions at Gibeon Adventist Secondary School and completed foundational coursework at Copperbelt University. The breadth is striking, but the list is most useful when read as a map of what he has studied: physics and mathematics alongside engineering, language, and other applied subjects. His education and training record lays out the credentials and results.
A wide-ranging course record
Four of the Alison diplomas mark particularly strong results in quantitative and technical subjects. Chanda earned 97% in High School Physics, 93% in Engineering Thermodynamics, 89% in Mathematics, and 88% in Mechatronics. The remaining Alison diplomas broaden the picture: English at C1 level, A-level Chemistry, Educational Psychology, and Nursing Leadership and Care Management. Together, they make the record more than a sequence of physics credentials; it crosses formal subject boundaries, with different kinds of coursework and assessment.
The three Northwestern Polytechnical University certificates each represent 24 hours of study. Their subjects are Image Processing and Computer Vision, Low Speed Aerodynamics, and Electric Machinery Fundamentals. The Saylor Academy courses add another set of measured commitments: 33 hours of mechanics, completed with 84.31%; 35 hours of algebra, with 80%; and 14 hours of Advanced English, with 86.36%. Those numbers offer concrete detail about the work behind the certificates, while the course titles show the range of topics Chanda has pursued.
His secondary-school results and university coursework sit alongside this additional training. At Gibeon Adventist Secondary School, he recorded seven subject distinctions; at Copperbelt University, he completed foundational coursework. The available record does not turn those milestones into a conventional biography, nor does it need to. The more revealing point is the combination: school achievement, university-level foundations, and certificates covering areas from mechanics to computer vision.
Physics through a measured experiment
Chanda’s portfolio also describes research writing and a book. His papers and publications page presents It’s Time to Know the Universe as an approximately 60-page introduction to classical mechanics and basic physics. The same portfolio lists a preprint on how impact surfaces affect the rebound of a bouncing tennis ball. That work is available on Research Square, where its measurements provide a focused example of experimental physics.
The setup was straightforward: one ball, approximately 58 grams, was dropped from 1.000 ± 0.005 metres onto four surfaces—concrete, ceramic tile, a wooden board, and a rubber mat. The procedure used ten drops per surface. Mean rebound heights were 0.5820 metres on concrete, 0.5540 on ceramic tile, 0.4965 on wood, and 0.4125 on the rubber mat. The ordering is clear in the reported averages: the ball rebounded highest from concrete and lowest from rubber.
From the measured rebound heights, the paper derived coefficients of restitution of 0.7629 for concrete, 0.7443 for ceramic tile, 0.7046 for wood, and 0.6423 for rubber. It also calculated energy-loss fractions of 41.80%, 44.60%, 50.35%, and 58.75%, respectively. These are calculated values, not separate measurements of where the energy went. Heat, sound, and deformation were not individually measured. The paper reports a one-way ANOVA of F(3,36)=852.55, p<0.0001, with eta squared of 0.9861; all Tukey pairwise comparisons were significant.
The limitations matter as much as the result. The experiment used one ball, one sample of each surface, and a single drop height. Its evidence therefore concerns those particular materials and conditions, rather than every ball or floor of the same general type. Rebound height was measured directly; the coefficients and energy-loss percentages were derived from those heights. Stating that distinction keeps the result in proportion—and makes the experiment easier to understand.
A project listed among 2026 Scholars
Alongside the coursework and the physics preprint, the portfolio describes Prosper’s Unified Position Equation, or PUPE, as a proposed framework. The project, titled “Deterministic Climate Prediction Using Prosper’s Unified Position Equation (PUPE),” appears on The Earth Prize 2026 Scholars roster under Africa. That is a Scholar listing, not a claim that Chanda won The Earth Prize; the site says regional winners are to be chosen from the group of Scholars.
For now, the record is best understood through its particulars: eight Alison diplomas by 17, fourteen certificates across three providers, seven school subject distinctions, foundational university coursework, a short introductory physics book, and a preprint built around a defined set of drops and surfaces. The measures give readers something firmer than a label such as “prodigy.” They show both the range of Chanda’s study and the specific limits within which his experimental findings should be read.