Events

Girls Empowerment Skills Program (GES)

2 June – 28 Oct 2022

Girls Empowerment Skills program (GES) is a digital literary, social & emotional intelligence and reproductive health training, for young girls in the regions of Dar Es Salaam, Zanzibar, Mwanza and Arusha. The training involves young girls aged between 12 ( those who are about to enter adolescence and already in adolescence) and 25 (those who are ready to get into the world of work or entrepreneurship). In partnership with Tanzania English Teachers Association (TELTA), IMED Foundation and T Marc Tanzania, the training will introduce young Tanzanian girls to digital skills, entrepreneurship skills, social and emotional intelligence skills and menstrual and reproductive health skills with the aim of preparing the young girls for maturity and adolescence, das well as ensuring that young girls are accessing skills that come with opportunities that will help them become full actors of their own well being and becomes agents of change and responsible citizen in their communities.

At UJUZI Tanzania Skills Forum, we believe skills can unlock Tanzanians youth potential potential. Yet, many youth especially girls are actively discouraged from pursuing science in high school, assuming they complete their secondary education. At UJUZI, we seek and identify Tanzania’s girls and provide them with a world-class skills and training of the future that will develop them into the female leaders of tomorrow.

Youth particularly girls face huge challenges to developing their full potential, poverty, gender discrimination and lack of access. We provide free life skills trainings for young women from low-income background to ensure they are given the education opportunities they deserve. We believe women should be at the forefront of Tanzania’s transformation and, at UJUZI, we are ensuring they will be.

After conducting a girls skills need assessment, the identified demanded skills were:

Digital Literacy Skills particularly for primary and secondary school girls
Reproductive health and mental health skills for girls entering the teen age

3. Social and emotional intelligence skills for all girls aged 15-25

Youth in AI Dar-Es-Salaam Hackathon

21 Oct – 24 Oct 2022

This will be the third Teens In AI hackathon in Tanzania and the second one and last for the year 2022. Under the leadership of Kai Maembe who once again has been selected by Teens In AI to organise a Teens in AI hackathon in Tanzania, in celebration of Adalove Lace Day, the first woman programmer. Created in 2018, Teens In AI is a global social impact initiative launched at the UN AI for Good Global Summit. Teens in AI exist to increase diversity and inclusion in artificial intelligence. The goal of Teens In AI is to democratize AI and inspire the next generation of ethical AI researchers, entrepreneurs and leaders.

In Tanzania, Teens In AI hackathon’s mission is to give young people in Tanzania particularly in under respresented societies ages 12-18 exposure to AI and technology for good through hackathons with the participation of experts, mentoring, workshops and networking opportunities .

Since October 2021, Kai and her team from UJUZI Tanzania Skills Forum are working towards bringing young Tanzania into the world of tech and innovation through onsite artificial intelligence hackathon in partnership with local tech communities and companies.

During the hackathon, teens are going to learn:

Human-centered design
Tech / Programming
Business Development
AI Ethics
Social and Emotional Intelligence – thanks for the support of the US Embassy for bringing in this component
Pitching
Project Management
Mental and reproductive health

To date, 350+ teens in Tanzania have been part of this initiative bringing together 361 speakers, 793 mentors, 187 judges who mentored teens to create 383 projects using AI to solve SDG challenges globally

Women & Girls in STEM Excellence Awards

9 Dec 2022

To encourage the participation of young girls in STEM, the girls in STEM Excellence awards rewards girls’ students for completing and performing in STEM subjects and activities and provides a framework to encourage higher levels of engagement in STEM learning.

These awards are important as they recognise top-performing girls and women from across the STEM space and provide inspiration for younger women looking to build a career in the industry.

The challenge of increasing diversity in STEM is our top agenda at UJUZI, but it is far from a solved problem. Women are still under-represented across this industry, especially at higher positions, and they’re also likely to be paid less than their male counterparts for the same work.

Girls

Girls Best Overall Performer in Science Subjects

Girls Best Overall Performer in Science Subjects (High School)
Girls Best Performer in Biology (Secondary School)
Girls Best Performer in Chemistry (Secondary School)
Girls Best Performer in Physics (High School)
Girls Best Performer in Biology (High School)
Girls Best Performer in Chemistry (High School)
Girls Best Performer in Physics (High School)

Girls Best Overall Performer in Mathematics

Girls Best Overall Performer in Mathematics (High School)
Girls Best Performer in Mathematics (Secondary School)
Girls Best Performer in Mathematics (Higher Learning)

Girls Best Overall Performer in Engineering

Girls Best Overall Performer in Engineering (Higher Learning)
Best Engineering Project (Higher Learning)

Best Overall Girls Tech Project in Technology

For girls under 18 years
For girls over 18

Best Overall Girls Innovation Project

For girls under 18 years
For girls over 18

Women

These will be awarded to women in recognition of top-performing women from across the technology space and provide inspiration for younger women looking to build a career in STEM. The categories are as follows:

CIO of the Year: A Tanzanian woman at the forefront of IT doing incredible things, inspiring your organisation, and standing out.

Digital Leader of the Year: A Tanzanian woman leading a digital team, project, or department within her organisation.

Diversity and Inclusion Initiative of the Year: An organisation which has launched the best diversity and inclusion initiative over the last 12 months.

Diversity Employer of the Year: The diversity employer of the year is an industry-leading work in building an atmosphere in which a diverse workforce can thrive and prosper.

Entrepreneur of the Year: A woman who has created a new business unit or other group within a larger organisation. This award will be given to the woman who best demonstrates the success, both current and potential, of her idea.

Graduate of the Year: Awarded to a (personal, initiative, project) successful graduate working in technology in the earliest stages of her career.

Hero of the Year: Awarded to a woman who has demonstrated excellence in her support of others, or in going beyond the call of duty to achieve her goal.

IT Leader of the Year: This will be awarded to the female IT leader who best demonstrates excellence in leadership, communication and strategic vision.

Role Model of the Year: This award will go to the woman who most inspires her colleagues, and leads by example.

Security Leader of the Year: The award will be given to the industry’s most stand-out woman in IT security, with a demonstrable effect on the constant mission to keep networks, stakeholders, and end users safe from malicious outside or inside actors.

Software Engineer of the Year: Will be awarded to a woman who demonstrates excellence in the field of software engineering.

Team Leader of the Year: This will be awarded to the person who best demonstrates how her leadership inspired a team, and directly contributed to their success.

Woman of the Year: This award will go the woman most deserving of recognition for her achievements in the IT industry this year.

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