Programming and algorithms course for Ethiopian high schoolers. Co-organizer of @jamcoders with @UWImona. Mailing list signup: tinyurl.com/addiscmail
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Matei Zaharia, Professor at UC Berkeley and Cofounder/CTO of Databricks, has won the ACM Prize in Computing, donating the $250k Infosys prize to AddisCoder. We are extremely grateful for this gift, which we will use to advance our mission of increasing access in computer science.
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This past week, AOA and the Ethiopian Mathematics Professionals Association collaborated to train students for the July PanAfrican math and informatics olympiads in Kigali. 10 AddisCoder alums participated in the informatics training, and six will represent Ethiopia in Kigali.
13 Jul 2025
Very interesting new high school in Rwanda: "The African Olympiad Academy aims to develop nascent Math and Science talent from Africa into engaged, globally-competitive problem solvers with a deep commitment to the continent." 1/
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May 1
Congratulations to Tewobistya (AddisCoder’23, Nazareth School->UWC), who will be starting her freshman year at Northwestern this Fall!
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Apr 18
Update: Ephrem has also been awarded a 100% scholarship, the Generation Change Award. Both will come to Berkeley on full ride scholarships!
Apr 1
Congratulations to Ephrem (ODA Special Boarding School) and Mizan (Kallamino Special High School), both from AddisCoder'23, on being admitted to UC Berkeley.
Mizan additionally won the Robinson scholarship, providing a 100% full ride.
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Apr 9
Congrats to Nathan (AddisCoder’25, @HaileManas) and Haile (AddisCoder’23, Asossa High School in Benishangul-Gumuz) on joining MIT’s freshman class this upcoming Fall, both on full rides.
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Apr 5
Congrats to Merwan of Kotebe University Menelik I Science Shared campus (AddisCoder’25), who will head to Princeton this Fall on a full ride.
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Apr 1
Congratulations to Ephrem (ODA Special Boarding School) and Mizan (Kallamino Special High School), both from AddisCoder'23, on being admitted to UC Berkeley.
Mizan additionally won the Robinson scholarship, providing a 100% full ride.
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Mar 7
Congratulations to Makda Tsegazeab (AddisCoder’19, Mekelle University’26) on her admission to KAIST to pursue a fully funded Master’s in Science and Technology Policy.
(Photos from AddisCoder 2019 and now!)
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Feb 21
Congrats to Akotet Yeshaw Tesema (AddisCoder'19) for graduating summa cum laude from KAIST with a degree in computer science. He is now continuing his MS at KAIST, working on ML/graph neural networks.
Also excited that he's returning to AddisCoder 2026 as a teaching assistant!
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Jan 3
Congrats Nafira Gebre Dedefo (AddisCoder’23) of the Oromia Development Association Special Boarding School on admission to UPenn with a full ride!
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Jan 2
Congratulations Abinet Teshome (AddisCoder’25) of @HaileManas on admission to Harvard on a full ride!
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24 Dec 2025
Reminder: deadline for both student and teaching assistant applications next week (Dec 31).
addiscoder.com/#apply
27 Aug 2025
9th to 11th graders, apply to the (free!) AddisCoder 2026 4-week summer camp by the December 31st deadline to learn algorithms and programming.
Teaching assistant volunteers can also apply.
Camp dates: to be determined, 4 weeks in summer 2025.
Link: addiscoder.com/#apply
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20 Dec 2025
Congratulations to Misgina Gebretsadik Kahsay (AddisCoder'16), who after completing his Bachelor's at Mekelle Institute of Technology has now just been accepted with a full @MastercardFdn scholarship to pursue a Master's at Arizona State.
(2nd photo from AddisCoder 9 years ago!)
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12 Dec 2025
Congrats to Jack, AddisCoder'23, on a full scholarship to @NYUAbuDhabi!
Jack studied in Gambella while residing with his parents and 5 siblings in Kule Refugee Camp. He earned a scholarship to finish high school in Addis, and now will be the first in his family to go to college.
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12 Dec 2025
Also, after studying Python and algorithms in AddisCoder, he later created his own program ("BaroCoder-101") in Gambella to share the knowledge he learned with other fellow high schoolers.
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29 Aug 2025
Congratulations Abenezer (AddisCoder’19), Sosna (AddisCoder TA’24), and Abtsega (AddisCoder’19) on starting your CS Master’s degrees at George Washington University.
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27 Aug 2025
9th to 11th graders, apply to the (free!) AddisCoder 2026 4-week summer camp by the December 31st deadline to learn algorithms and programming.
Teaching assistant volunteers can also apply.
Camp dates: to be determined, 4 weeks in summer 2025.
Link: addiscoder.com/#apply
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24 Aug 2025
At the AddisCoder 2025 graduation we distributed 27 laptops to students thanks to a generous donation by X-School! x-camp.academy/
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23 Aug 2025
AddisCoder graduation is now complete. 121 students completed our 4-week program on algorithms, representing 13 kilils across the country. Thanks to all our partners and donors, and we look forward to Summer 2026 — applications will open next week.
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