The Tech in Kenya

The Tech Challenge Kenya

The success of this program can be seen in the growing participation in The Tech Challenge Kenya, modeled after our signature San Jose event that began in 1986.

2023: 750 students participated

2024: 2,700 students participated

2025: More than 4,800 students from hundreds of schools joined showcases in Kisumu and Nakuru

This year, students were challenged to design devices, using only recycled materials, that could survive a three-meter drop and deliver a coin up a ramp. The challenge was inspired by a real issue: delivering food and supplies to rural communities.

The results were inspiring. Deaf students presented their ideas in sign language. Rural learners engineered creative prototypes from bottles, boxes, and string. Every student demonstrated persistence, creativity, and teamwork.

Highights from 2025 Tech Challenge in Kisumu, Kenya "Drop and Dash"

Highlights from the 2025 Tech Challenge in Nakuru, Kenya “Drop and Dash

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The Turkana County is experiencing a severe drought and people are struggling to find food and water. Emergency supplies like medicine, sacks of maize flour and bottles of clean water are dropped by planes and drones in open fields. But they do not reach people in remote parts of the county. How can the supplies get to the people who need them? In this year’s challenge, teams will design a device that delivers something to a target area after it is dropped.

Your team’s mission is to:
Design and build a device that can survive a drop and deliver supplies. No batteries allowed!

Angusha Na Ikimbie

Eneo la Turkana linakumbwa na ukame mkali, na watu wanakosa chakula na maji. Mahali hapa ni mbali na ngumu kufikiwa. Wakati mwingine ndege au drones hutuma misaada ya dharura kama dawa, chakula, au maji. Lakini, je, nini kinatokea baada ya misaada kuachiliwa? Jinsi gani misaada hii inaweza kufika kwa watu wanaohitaji? Katika changamoto ya mwaka huu, timu zitabuni kifaa kitakachosaidia kusafirisha kitu baada ya kuachiliwa.

Jukumu la timu yenu ni:
Buni na utengeneze Kifaa ambacho kinaweza kustahimili kuanguka na kufukisha vifaa.
Hakina betri zinazoruhusiwa!