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We are thrilled to announce that applications are now OPEN for the 2025-2026 G4C Student Challenge! 🎉 The G4C Student Challenge is a global game design competition that empowers students to amplify their voices, showcase their creativity, and drive real-world impact through game design, offering a chance to win a $10,000 scholarship. Students will create original games inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, building critical skills like coding and problem-solving along the way! 🎮🌍 Who can join? 🎮 Young creators worldwide, aged 10–25 📚 Educators & program leaders, bring the Student Challenge to your classroom or program, with free resources and support to guide your students through the process. Whether you’re into coding, character design, or game mechanics, ALL skill levels are welcome! 🔗 Ready to start? Learn more & apply today!: https://lnkd.in/erB59MJ9

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Ever noticed how your best ideas come when you’re not working? Maybe you’re in the shower, walking, or lying half-asleep and suddenly, the solution to that stubborn bug or problem just clicks. It feels random, but it’s actually how our brain is wired. When we step away from focused work, our mind shifts into what scientists call the “default mode network.” This is when your brain works quietly in the background, connecting things and bringing up insights you couldn’t force out at your desk. That’s why so many “aha!” moments happen when you’re relaxed, distracted, or simply lost in thought. It’s not laziness, it’s your brain doing its deeper work. The lesson? Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is step away. Take a short walk, breathe, or just give your mind some rest. You’ll often come back sharper, fresher, and with answers that seemed impossible just a while ago. Wishing you a productive and insightful week ahead and don’t forget to give your brain the space it needs to surprise you. @edemy251

CSEC-ASTU 2025/2026 Bootcamp

The CSEC Bootcamp is here to introduce you to the fundamentals of programming and open the door to exciting tech paths:

from AI 🤖 to Web Development 🌐 to Cybersecurity 🔐 and more!

💡 No experience? No problem! We start from the basics! 💻 No PC? You can code right from your phone! 🎯 Learn, explore, and connect with our vibrant community. 📅 Registration closes on August 16, 2025, at 12:00 PM — don’t miss your chance to kickstart your future in tech. 📍 Fill out the registration form now and let’s build something amazing together! 👉🏾Link @CSEC_ASTU

Introducing the Agentic AI Developer Certification Program! 📢 Ready Tensor proudly launches the Agentic AI Developer Certification Program, a 12-week, project-based curriculum teaching developers to build intelligent, goal-driven AI systems. All program content is FREE, with an optional paid certification track. ✔️ Develop multi-agent applications ✔️ Build 3 portfolio-quality projects ✔️ Learn LangChain, LangGraph, RAG, Guardrails ✔️ Earn expert feedback and certification (optional) 👉 Discover more and enroll

Google Generation Scholarship is out for applications. Scholarship worth $2500 USD and eligibility is females in second and third year of college. Deadline Thursday, August 14, 2025 or when 500 eligible application responses are received To apply: https://www.iie.org/programs/generationgoogle/generation-google-scholarship-for-women-in-computer-science-europe-middle-east-and-africa-emea/ From #SiTE notice board

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Juma Mubarek Hey devs! 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓 If you want to fast-track your career and land a dream job right out of school, you need to go hardcore on the advanced stuff. Don't just follow the curriculum—go deep. Here are some ambitious technical areas to focus on: Deep Dive into Core Concepts * Databases: Don't just learn SQL. Go deep into database internals, understand indexing strategies, and master advanced query optimization. Try to optimize a query on a huge, randomly-generated dataset to see the difference. * Operating Systems: Learn about OS threads and asynchronous programming. Understand how they work at a low level and how to manage concurrency effectively. * Language Internals: Dive into how your favorite programming language actually works. How does Python's interpreter execute code? How does JavaScript's single-threaded nature handle so many operations? * Networking: Get to know tools like Nginx, Apache, and others. Understand how a web server processes requests, handles traffic, and serves content. Build Ambitious Projects * High-Volume Servers: Challenge yourself to build a local server that can handle a massive number of requests. Experiment with scaling and performance. * VPS Exploration: Get your hands on a Virtual Private Server (VPS). Deploy your projects, learn how to configure domains and DNS records, and get comfortable in a real-world server environment. * OAuth: Create your own OAuth implementation to understand how modern authentication and authorization work. * Clone Projects You Admire: Find a project you love and try to recreate it from scratch. This is one of the best ways to learn the architecture of a complex system. Do the most ambitious projects you can imagine. Document your entire journey—every success and every failure. Post your progress on X (Twitter), GitHub, or a personal blog. I guarantee that if you dedicate yourself to this path, you will get the job you've always wanted, and the money will follow. Your hard work will speak for itself. Chapi

🚀 Become an Agentic AI Builder — Free 12‑Week Certification by Ready Tensor Ready Tensor’s Agentic AI Developer Certification is a free, project first 12‑week program designed to help you build and deploy real-world agentic AI systems. You'll complete three portfolio-ready projects using tools like LangChain, LangGraph, and vector databases, while deploying production-ready agents with FastAPI or Streamlit. The course focuses on developing autonomous AI agents that can plan, reason, use memory, and act safely in complex environments. Certification is earned not by watching lectures, but by building — each project is reviewed against rigorous standards. You can start anytime, and new cohorts begin monthly. Ideal for developers and engineers ready to go beyond chat prompts and start building true agentic systems. 👉 Apply now

Want to build a global tech career right from Ethiopia? Tikvah Ethiopia families, join us for an exciting freelancing workshop led by a Senior Software Engineer, Temkin "Chapi" Mengistu (@chapidevtalks), with real-world experience working with international clients. What’s it about? Discover how to start and grow your career in freelancing as a tech professional, from building your profile to finding clients, managing projects, and getting paid globally. Who is it for? Young people who are involved in the tech space, whether you're just starting or looking to take your freelance game to the next level. What you’ll learn: ▪️How freelancing works in the tech industry ▪️Where and how to find freelance jobs ▪️Building your profile and pricing your work ▪️Project management and client communication 📅 Date: Saturday, August 2, 2025 ⏰ Time: 9:00 AM 📍 Location: Addis Ababa, around 22 ▪️Cost: FREE! Organized by: Tikvah Ethiopia 🔗Limited spots available – register now! https://forms.gle/wu3xPSNskKKDmo8k7

Software Engineering ከውጭ ሲያዩት ያስፈራል። ሲጀምሩት ያደናግራል። የተወሰነ ለተረዳው ደግሞ ሱስ ይሆናል። ለተወሰነ ጊዜ ከተውት ደግሞ በቀላሉ ይረሳል።

Job Title: Flutter + Flutterflow Developer Company: Private Client Salary: 50,000ETB Deadline: 29-07-2025 Description: Job Title: FlutterFlow Developer for Custom Widgets & Performance Optimization Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (On‑site for first 2 weeks; fully remote thereafter) Job Type: Full‑time Freelance (Contract) Start Date: Immediate Job Title: App deployment on playstore Company: Private Client View Rate:🟢 80%-100% Excellent Salary: Negotiation Deadline: 07-30-2025 Description: : We need some who can deploy our apps to his old play store and able to transfer to our new playstore account Having old play store account is mandatory If y don't have play store account created before nov 2024 don't apply Fully remote @RemoteJ0b_bot

Introducing Our Guest Speaker for Cursor Hackathon Addis Ababa 2025! We’re excited to welcome Kinfemichael Tariku, co-founder and core maintainer of Better Auth, and founder of Farm-UI, as our guest speaker at the hackathon. He will also be sharing insights from his Y Combinator experience. Gain valuable insights from someone who's been through the journey and built impactful tools.

🗓 ASTU Academic Calendar Announcement Here is the Academic Calendar for the 2025/2026 (2018 E.C.) academic year, applicable to all undergraduate regular students. If there are any changes or updates, we'll keep you informed! @ASTUSoftwareEngineering

🚀 A2SV Community Education Program — New Applications Open! 🚀 We’re thrilled to announce that we’re now accepting a new round of students into the A2SV Community Education Program! 🎓💻 If you’ve been active in our Telegram channel and want to take your problem-solving skills to the next level through structured learning and consistent challenges — this is your moment! ✅ To apply: • Fill out the application form (linked below) • Participate in at least 2 out of 4 contests that will be posted here from July 23–26 (one each day) • Have a combined total of 100+ solved problems on LeetCode + Codeforces 🗓 Contest Schedule: 📅 Wednesday, July 23 → Saturday, July 26 👉 Form Link: Application Form This is your chance to grow with the A2SV community, build consistency, and surround yourself with other passionate problem solvers. Let’s rise together — one challenge at a time! 💪🔥 #A2SVCommunity #CodingChallenge #ProblemSolving #ApplyNow #EducationProgram

Calling all innovators, coders, and dreamers! Unleash your creativity in a thrilling week-long hackathon leveraging Ethiopia’s Fayda Digital ID system. From July 26 - August 4, 2025, build game-changing solutions in FinTech, HealthTech, Smart Governance, AgriTech, and more! Register using this link -> https://lnkd.in/dssa4fXX. @GDGAddis