Jua is Hack Club's 16th Athena event and 1st overseas event in Nairobi, Kenya that took place on the 7th and 8th of March, 2025 <3 The goal of this event was to create a safe space for girls to learn how to code and close the gender gap in tech.
Check the YouTube video here
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Louisa | Lead Organiser & Workshop Lead, Dinner Lead |
| Dhriti | Merch Lead, Decor Lead & Socials / Marketing Lead |
| Elizabeth | Workshop Lead & Website Lead |
| Regina | Website Lead |
| Zenab | Hack Club's Creative Events Manager |
| Nadeen | Merch Lead Art & Design |
| Paolo | Hack Club's Social Media Creator |
We held a hackathon from 9AM to 5PM with over 78 girls from all parts of Nairobi who came from our amazing partner organisations, The Scouts, Girl Up and Code Yetu to learn how to write their first lines of code. It was held at the Nairobi Game Development Centre in Parklands.
Elizabeth did a workshop on how to make a simple HTML website. She taught the girls how to rebuild a simplified version of the Jua website in Swahili. You can checkout her slides here.
Louisa did a workshop to make a simple text-based game in Python where she taught the girls how to make a game themed around their interests in Swahili. Here are her slides.
The night before our hackathon, we hosted an incredible dinner at the Atrium - Karen Blixen Coffee Gardens with 15 incredible women in tech, 4 Hack Clubbers, 7 Aspiring Girls in Tech and 2 Hack Club Staff. We got to speak to inspiring figures in tech like Lorna Ogolla, the Partnerships Lead at Google Research Africa, Isis Nyong'o, one of Kenya's first women leaders in tech working at Viacom, Google and founding Malaica, or Kathleen Siminyu, a AI and AI Policy Researcher at The Distributed AI Research Institute! The dinner was full of so many learnings and fun!
Our budget is transparent on HCB.
| Items | Amount in USD |
|---|---|
| Catering | 2,150 |
| Hotels | 775 |
| Flights | 1,500 |
| Transportation | 340 |
| Food for organisers | 140 |
| Merch for organisers | 210 |
| Hackathon expenses | 1400 |
| Hackathon food | 660 |
| Hackathon venue | 590 |
| Dinner expenses | 270 |
| TOTAL | 7,950 |
Our website was built by Regina, Louisa and Nadeen.
Thank you so much to our incredible dinner guests, The Kenya Scouts Association, Girl Up, CodeYetu, The Nairobi Game Development Centre, The HCB Team, Zenab and Paolo!
Want more info about Jua? DM @lou on Slack