Autumn/Winter 2024 Hackathon: Hackathon in Progress!
Hackathon in Progress! The hackathon is the culmination point of 3 months of training where our students are split into teams of 3-4 and create a fully functional website using the skills they have learnt about javascript, html, css, php and sql.
This year the challenge was to create a hotel booking website, a task created in co-operation with the local hotel that donates the space where the students study.
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Autumn Bootcamp 2024! Our Autump bootcamp has begun. Students will be learning Javascript and PHP over the next few months culminating in the hackathon where they show off the skills they’ve learnt solving a real life problem.
Daniel who runs Alvathek our teaching provider said: “It’s really exicting seeing the course in progress and students teaming up together working on solutions!”
The students coding
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2024 Summer Graduation Our latest batch of students graduated today. It was a great ceremony celebrating the achievements of the students over the last 4 months. This graduation marks 180 students who have been taught through The Back Home Project and Alvahtek who has taken over as the delivery partner in Nigeria. Our work is changing lives one line of code a time.
The Programming Bootcamp held from February to June 2024 aimed to equip students with essential web development skills.
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Alumni Meetup On 30th December 2023, 13 of our alumni gathered in our training venue (kindly donated by a local businessman) to catchup. The teachers Michael and Daniel were also in attendance. It was encouraging to hear 8 of them have gone on to further education and the knowledge they’ve learnt with us has been put to good news.
Some of their stories:
Michael: “I have been working on couple of projects, my first project was a game app, I recently finished an e-commerce website for a client, of recent I’m working on a school management system, I’m also planning on developing a website for my department in school” – 2022 set Patrick: “Since I graduated, I got a system and I’ve been working on so many projects.
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Summer 2023 Graduation The Graduating students
It’s officially the end of Summer (in the UK) and our 2nd batch of students this year graduated today. It was a truly uplifting event celebrating their achievements: The energy, enthusiasm and gratitude of the students is hard to to put into words.
The Ceremony was led by Lt. Col Edward Mark (rtd.) and the local pastor who gave speeches about the importance of the skills the students have learnt in a tech driven world.
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Summer 2023 Hackathon A website created by one of the teams
Hackathon time again. The final hackathon is the culmination point of 14 weeks of training where our students are split into teams of 3 and have to create a fully functional e-commerce website using the skills they have learnt about javascript, html, css, php and sql.
A tough challenge made even more harder due to nationwide power outages meaning that they had no power for two of the days.
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