The Tech in Kenya

New challenge announced!

The Kenya Tech Challenge 2025 - Drop and Dash, in Kisumu and Nakuru County

Highlights from the 2024 Tech Challenge in Kenya "Rock the Ravine"

We are back in Kenya this year with TWO Showcases in 2025!

In June of 2023, The Tech successfully hosted the first-ever Tech Challenge showcase event in Kenya comprising 750 students!
Last year, we hosted our second Tech Challenge in Nakuru, Kenya - Rock The Ravine! With over 2500 students, 100+ volunteers and 150 judges, our participants showed immense collaboration, perseverance and creativity!

This year, for the first time in the history of The Tech, we will be hosting Tech Challenge showcases at two locations in Kenya - Kisumu and Nakuru! We are inviting around 5000 students from over 1000 schools to our showcase events! We are very excited to scale our program in Kenya!

Since 1986, thousands of students in Silicon Valley have participated in The Tech Challenge, an engineering education program where students form teams and build a device to solve a real world problem. Through The Tech Challenge, participants spend months collaborating and becoming deeply engaged in the challenge while documenting their process and designs. The program culminates in an inspiring two-day showcase where teams put their solutions to the test in front of judges.

Learn more about the 2025 Tech Challenge in Kenya and get involved below.

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!

Official Rules Diagrams

Important Dates

Registration Deadlines

Date	Deadline
January 24th, 2025	Announcement of The Tech Challenge Kenya: Teams may start the initial registration process
April 15th, 2025 - May 15th, 2025	Registration for Final Submission
May 15th, 2025	Deadline for Final Submission

Team Divisions and Dates for The Tech Challenge Showcase 2025 Kenya

Teams can include 2-6 students

Division	Kisumu	Nakuru
Division 1: 4th-6th grade	Saturday July 5th 2025	Saturday 12th July, 2025
Division 2: 7th-9th grade	Saturday July 5th 2025	Saturday 12th July, 2025
Division 3: Form 2-Form 4	Sunday July 6th 2025	Sunday 13th July, 2025