Happy Democracy Day from all of us at GDG Cloud Port Harcourt! 🇳🇬 Just like an open-source community, a great democracy relies on collaboration, accessible ecosystems, and the collective power of people working together toward a shared goal. #democracyday #gdgcloudph

New Hackathon to earn from a pool of $42,000 @SlackHQ Agent Builder Challenge Build intelligent agents that automate workflows, surface real time insights and connect systems inside Slack Prize pool: $42,000💰 •Trip to Dreamforce 2026 •Slack Marketplace distribution •Featured in Slack newsletter Open to vibe coders & seasoned devs Apply here 👇 slackhack.devpost.com

ICYMI: Nano Banana Pro [gemini-3-pro-image] and Nano Banana 2 [gemini-3.1-flash-image] are now GA and ready for production via the Gemini API. Check out these great community examples to see the capabilities of both models in action 🧵

Happy Birthday, @philipobiorah! You do so much for the GDG Cloud PH community & today is all about celebrating the person behind all that hard work. Thank you for being a constant source of inspiration, a steady hand in leadership, and a truly kind soul to everyone around you.

📢 CALLING AFRICAN FOUNDERS Applications are open for the Accelerate Africa Startup Programme 2026.For early-stage, tech-driven startups. ✔ Expert support ✔ Founder network ✔ Potential investment: 250,000–500,000 USD ⏰ Deadline: 25 July 2026 🔗 acceler8.africa/

🚀 Here we go again! #Google and #Kaggle are officially relaunching the FREE AI Agents Intensive course 🥳 🗓️ June 15–19, 2026 💡 5 Days. 100% Free. New format with foundational whitepapers, hands-on code labs, live expert Q&As, a Discord community learning alongside you, and a capstone project so you walk away with a real, working build 🛠️ ✅ "Vibe Coding" Workflows: Just describe what you want, and the agents build it. No need to write code from scratch! 🙂 ✅ Scalable & High-Quality: Brand new content focused on building AI agents that are robust, reliable, and ready for the real world 🤖 ✅ Enterprise-Ready: A massive new emphasis on graduating your local agents into governed, scalable, and observable 🔭 👇 Find all the details and grab your spot 👉 lnkd.in/d6j83-xq #Google #Courses #TechEducation

Google Data Center Community AI Fellowship 2026 (Fully Funded) Apply for the Community AI Fellowship by Google For community leaders using AI to drive inclusive, local solutions • Fully funded programme • Focus on AI for community impact • Opportunity to scale local innovations Deadline: July 12 Details & Apply: watson.is/google-data-center… #AI #Fellowship #Opportunity #CommunityImpact

Earn a new skill badge by analyzing findings, prioritizing remediation tasks, and creating compliance reports using Security Command Center in a new Google Skills course → goo.gle/4cbG4UV

Get an intro to #generativeAI in 30 minutes. Take this Google Skills course for an overview of gen AI and to learn about the Google Tools that can help you develop your own gen AI apps → goo.gle/4cAPef3

HERE YOU GO; £0.00 IBM: skillsbuild.org AWS: skillbuilder.aws Google: grow.google/ai Meta: ai.meta.com/resources OpenAI: academy.openai.com Kaggle Learn: kaggle.com/learn ClaudeAI: anthropic.skilljar.com DeepLearningAI: deeplearning.ai MIT OpenCourseWare: ocw.mit.edu Hugging Face: huggingface.co/learn NVIDIA: developer.nvidia.com/trainin… Microsoft: learn.microsoft.com/training Stanford: online.stanford.edu/free-cou…

Call for Applications: STEM4Climate Fellowship 2026 for Women in STEM msmeafricaonline.com/call-fo…

Globethics Emerging Leaders in Ethical AI Governance Fellowship Deadline: April 16 globethics.net/ethical-ai-go…

🧑🏽‍💻👩🏻‍💻👨🏻‍💻 The open source community thrives on contributions from a wide range of perspectives. That's why, each year, our LiFT Scholarship program awards 500 scholarships across 16 categories. Which one is right for you? ✅ Apply for a Linux Foundation LiFT Scholarship today: app.smarterselect.com/progra… Deadline: April 30 #DevOps #SRE #Engineers #SysAdmins #Developers

From all of us at GDG Cloud Port Harcourt, we wish you a memorable Easter Celebration. 🎉🎉🎉 #easter

The AU Innovating Education in Africa Call is open. Seeking scalable, practical solutions to transform education & skills development across the continent aligned with AI, innovation & policy priorities. Download au.int/en/announcements/2026… 🗓 Deadline: 30 April 2026 | 23:00 EAT #Agenda2063 #EducationInAfrica

Welcome to April!

The Udacity scholarship is open again for people interested in: ✅ Artificial Intelligence ✅ Cloud Computing  ✅ Programming and Development ✅ Data Science and Analytics ✅ Business and Entepreneurship ✅ Autonomous Systems With this scholarship, you’d get: ✅ Fully funded Nanodegree ✅ Hands-on projects ✅ Industry mentorship ✅ Career services ✅ Certification ✅ Flexible online learning Learn more about this scholarship here: udacity.com/scholarships

Y Combinator announced AI Startup School 2026 What you get: → Direct access to YC partners and alumni → Practical sessions on how to build and scale AI startups → $25K in compute credits (OpenAI, Anthropic, and more) → Up to $500 flight reimbursement if you’re traveling to SF → Small-group sessions with top builders → A direct track into YC funding Who should apply: - Undergraduate and graduate students in CS or related technical fields - Software engineers and ML engineers working in industry - Self-taught builders with hands-on projects The key requirement is simple: you should be highly technical and able to show what you’ve actually built or worked on. If you’re already building in AI, this is definitely worth applying! 📍 San Francisco, July 25-26, 2026 ❗ Early Decision deadline: April 10, 2026 Apply here 👉 events.ycombinator.com/start…

This spring, grow your knowledge of Vertex AI Studio, a tool for interacting with generative AI models, prototyping business ideas, and launching them into production. This course offers an immersive use case, engaging lessons, and a hands-on lab → goo.gle/4rJjIjy

A few updates from across Google this week🧵 A new full-stack vibe coding experience is now in @GoogleAIStudio with the @Antigravity coding agent and a built-in @Firebase integration. Turn your prompts into amazing production-ready apps.