Hack Africa: Announcing our Africa focused hackathon!
We are delighted to announce Encode Club’s Africa focused hackathon: Hack Africa! This will be an 8-week hackathon in partnership with Web3Bridge.
About Encode Club
The purpose of Encode is to educate, support and catalyse the emergence of new talent into the blockchain space. We work across 75 universities worldwide, running hackathons, accelerators, education series as well as investing and recruiting the best to join leading blockchain companies. Read more here.
About Web3Bridge
Web3Bridge is designed to identify people who are passionate about Web3, train them in a collaborative and supportive remote environment, and create an African Web3 community. Web3Bridge has reach across several African countries and has successfully trained and supported several cohorts of Web2 and Web3 developers. You can join the Web3Bridge telegram community here.
About Hack Africa
Starting on Tuesday 15th June 2021, Hack Africa challenges students and hackers to build blockchain projects that change the way Africa (and the world) works. There are over $30k in cash prizes available, as well as jobs and investment for the best hackers and projects!
The hackathon will last 8 weeks — 4 weeks for learning, and 4 weeks for hacking. You can grab a ticket for the introductory event (Tuesday 15th June) via our eventbrite.
You can register for the hackathon here. Registrations are open until Monday 19th July.
Sponsors and Challenges
We are delighted to be joined by 5 sponsors for Hack Africa, which can be seen below:
To find out more about each sponsor’s challenges, read their individual announcement articles on the Encode Club medium page.
Previous Hackathons
Over the past 2 years, we have had over 3,000 hackers take part, with over 500 projects completed. We’ve seen over 100 PhDs and professors participate in that time, and have given out over $250k in prizes!
We are also very proud that many of our hackathon projects have gone on to raise funding, including Reflexer Labs and the winner of our 3rd hackathon, Euler.
See all of our previous hackathons below:
Future of Blockchain 1
Future of Blockchain 2
Spark Summer
Encode Hack Club
Hack the System
How it Works:
Teams of 1–6 can either;
- work on their own idea or startup; or
- answer a technical challenge from our sponsors.
There is an overall top prize pool of $5k, as well as prizes per sponsor.
Follow-on support
We invest in the best coming out of our hackathons through Encode Invest Club, run Accelerators (e.g. with Thunder, Algorand, Avalanche), and help place talented individuals into jobs through Encode Talent.
Who can enter?
Hack Africa is aimed at students and hackers based in or from Africa, however, anyone can take part. In particular:
- Students
- Researchers
- Graduates
- Hackers
Dates
The hackathon is split into two stages:
Learn: Learn about blockchain, the technologies, and the partners involved through workshops and educational material.
Hack: Build your project.
Register by Monday 19th July 2021
Learn: Thursday 15th June 2021 to Sunday 18th July 2021
Hack: Monday 19th July 2021 to Sunday 15th August 2021
Submissions: Sunday 15th August 2021
Judging: Monday 16th August 2021 to Sunday 5th September
Finale event: Wednesday 8th September 2021
Upcoming Events
Monday 26th July: Intro to Arweave
Support during the hackathon
- Weekly technical workshops
- Regular 1–1s with the Encode team
- Direct line to technical support
- Online Discord Community
Registration
You can register for the hackathon here! Registration is open until Tuesday 15th June. Late registrations are open until Monday 19th July.
You can register for the Introductory Event here. It is taking place on Tuesday 15th June at 5:30pm GMT+1.
If you have any questions, please email: george@encode.club
