Geekulcha Portfolio
The work of Geekulcha on the ground
Soweto (Gauteng) March 2016
Building nano statellites and lloking at all things healthcare, this edition of the VacWork challenged scholars to build...
Tshwane (Gauteng) March 2016
Building nano statellites and lloking at all things healthcare, this edition of the VacWork challenged scholars to build...
Tshwane (Gauteng) October 2015
Mixed with Tech4Africa, this edition of the VacWork was focused on the environment with scholars having built games and ...
Siyabuswa (Mpumalanga) July 2015
It’s not easy teaching a group of 60 high school kids how to code and helping them create their own ICT solutions ...
Tshwane (Gauteng) July 2015
It’s not easy teaching a group of 60 high school kids how to code and helping them create their own ICT solutions ...
Tshwane (Gauteng) March 2015
A mixture of scholars from Mamelodi, Soshanguve, Attridgeville and central parts of Pretoria, this VacWork edition diver...
Tshwane (Gauteng) October 2014
Future GeekStars is an initiative that was officially launched 06 October 2014 at The Innovation Hub. It is used as a pl...
Tshwane (Gauteng) July 2014
The very first VacWork edition hosted with 4 scholars at mLab South Africa at The Innovation Hub. It was the VacWork edi...
GEW Hackathon Powered by Telkom Futuremakers 2021
The Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) Hackathon 2021, Powered by Telkom Futuremakers, challenged selected participants ...
Geekulcha Hackathon 2021 #GKHack21
In March 2020, Geekulcha hosted the sixth annual Geekulcha Hackathon, on the eve of Geekulcha's eighth birthday. Aro...
MDDA Gender-Based Violence Platform
In August 2020, as part of Women's Month in South Africa, Geekulcha took part in a panel discussion on 'Shifting...
Geekulcha Annual Hackathon 2021
A congregation of African Geeks to build solutions (social, business and/or civic problems) that matters through a Makin...
Geekulcha Annual Hackathon 2020
The Geekulcha Annual Hackathon in partnership with UNISA was set against the Geekulcha’s focus on the need to...
AquaTech hackathon 2021
This hackathon took focus on aqua technologies solution development to help unearth innovation in the water space. The h...
SafeHack 2020
SafeHack is the biggest security hackathon in Africa. Every Hackathon has a strong software element. The intensity and e...
TEDxPretoria 2013
Geekulcha's Mixo Ngoveni and Tiyani Nghonyama were part of the organising team of TEDxPretoria 2013, which was theme...
Moringa School Focus Groups
Moringa School is a multi-disciplinary coding school committed to closing the skills gap in Africa’s job market by...
Moringa School Focus Groups
Moringa School is a multi-disciplinary coding school committed to closing the skills gap in Africa’s job market by...
Ayoba Hackathon 2020
Ayoba, together with the UCTGSB Solution Space and Geekulcha, hosted a virtual hackathon on 03 – 06 April 2020 for...
Soweto (Gauteng) March 2019
Geekulcha, whose stated mission is to empower young geeks through ICT skills development, in 2014 created a "free a...
STEM Career Day Thagaetala (Limpopo)
Suppprt Mapitsi Foundation, Geekulcha joined the annual Career Day and EXPO at the Thagaetala Secondary school in Ga-Mph...
MTN Business Hackathon 2021
This virtual hackathon challenges individual or team competitors comprising MTN App Academy graduates, tech student...
Codebridge Youth KZN
The CodeBridge Youth Programme by OpenUp aims to develop the capacity of the youth across the nine provinces, in order t...
SkateHacks Midday Kimberley 2015
In 2016, Geekulcha entered into a collaboration with the Northern Cape Department of Economic Development and Tourism (D...
Responsive Cities Challenge
Together with London’s Open Data Institute, OpenUpSA, The Innovation Hub and the South African Department of Publi...
Business Intelligence Datathon 2020
In March 2020, in collaboration with ITWeb, UNISA and the CPSI, Geekulcha held a 36-hour datathon which saw over 20 team...
Gauteng Azure Training Project
In collaboration with Andela, Geekulcha recruited and trained 400 mentors (train-the-trainer) and over 7 000 learners wi...
MTN Business App Academy 2020
In 2020, Geekulcha and Creative Space Media delivered the inaugural MTN Business App Academy, a nationwide virtual (taki...
Onboarding South African Developers to Huawei App Gallery
Huawei engaged Geekulcha to reach out to South African developers to encourage them to upload their apps to the Huawei A...
UK-SA Digital Literacy for Development Training Project (Phase II)
Based on learning and stakeholder recommendations from Phase I, the focus in Phase II (August 2020 to January 2021) was ...