Africa Tech Challenge Competition

Africa Tech Challenge (ATC) is a CSR project by AVIC International holdings Corporation in conjunction with the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology in Kenya. AVIC International is committed to promote the local economy with a keen focus on Youth, including training, job creation and resource support as the core of its company social responsibility in Kenya.

The Mobile App Challenge is a competition designed for all young Kenyans who have undertaken IT courses and have basic knowledge of technology. It will be a competition that requires the participants to develop a web based application following guidelines that will be offered to them through training.

According to AVIC, the goal of this contest is to demonstrate how the participants can gain technical skills to encourage entrepreneurship, and facilitate self-employment among the youth in Kenya. The contest will help meet Kenya’s Vision 2030 goals.

The contest will guide the Technical Training Institutes to adapt to the world’s current industry situation and its technology development trend, cultivate education reform on the lathe machining techniques and its related majors, and mainly improve the employment rate among the youth in Kenya.

The MAC (Mobile App Challenge) training will take 12 days with contest elimination, 2 days of the hackathon to build their projects and 1 day for demoing. All participants will be given a computer or a laptop to use during the training, hackathon and demo.

Additionally, they will be provided with full access to the Gearbox domain (including an application programming interface, with a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications). Final 10 contestants will have the opportunity to build the mobile app and demo the results in front of the judging panel.

Winners will be awarded as follows:

1^st place $5,000 +access to Gearbox incubator for 6months (free)

2^nd place $2,000

3^rd place $1,000

Registration is free and all participants must be graduates (under the age of 30) from national accredited colleges, universities, vocational schools or technology training centers that have demonstrated basic coding capabilities (must provide letters/scripts from school showing have taken courses such as C/C++ language, Java, PHP, Python or equivalent). In total, 50 applicants will be selected to participate in the initial training of the challenge. Accommodation will be provided to participate during the challenge period.

Apply at http://www.avicatc.org/