Babcock Launches ₦10 million Hackathon At 2nd Tech Week
Babcock College’s second annual Babcock Tech Week (BTW) will maintain from March 22 to twenty-eight, 2026, underneath the theme “Tethered — Related Throughout Disciplines.”
The occasion organised by the Babcock College Pc Membership (BUCC) in collaboration with the Finance College students Affiliation (FINSA), Google Developer {Groups} Babcock (GDG on Campus, Babcock) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Babcock (IEEE, Babcock), is designed to attract college students from each college throughout the college — and this yr, its flagship competitors opens its doorways even wider.
The Tethered Hackathon and Pitchathon can be opened to individuals from inside and outdoors Babcock College, making BTW 2026 probably the most accessible scholar innovation occasions within the nation.
On the centre of the week is the Tethered Hackathon , based on the Convener, Dunmade Majuyi is a ₦10 million competitors that has generated important anticipation forward of its launch.
He defined that the hackathon carries a grand prize of ₦4,000,000 for first place, ₦2,000,000 for second, and ₦1,000,000 for third, alongside a set of vertical and technical excellence awards.
“Each competing staff should embody no less than one scholar from outdoors the Faculty of Computing — a structural requirement that ensures the competitors rewards real cross-disciplinary pondering, not simply technical execution”, he added.
The week, which might additionally includes a full-day Profession Honest on Tuesday, twenty fourth March 2026, can be opened to college students throughout all disciplines, and people outdoors the college as effectively, giving organisations direct entry to Babcock’s scholar expertise pool and giving college students a direct line to internship and employment alternatives.
Majuyi described the theme as “a deliberate acknowledgement that probably the most consequential work taking place on the intersection of expertise, finance, well being, and society can’t be achieved by any single self-discipline alone.”
“There’s a technology of builders at Babcock that the trade hasn’t absolutely met but,” mentioned Obata Onyelukachukwu, Head of Partnerships and Exterior Relations, BTW 2026.
“BTW is the place that assembly occurs. The organisations that can present up aren’t simply doing college students a favour — they’re getting early entry to probably the most thrilling expertise pipeline on this nation, earlier than it belongs to anybody else,” Onyelukachukwu said.
The BTW 2026 options panel discussions on Africa’s Digital Future, Funding Innovation, and Capital Markets & Enterprise Ecosystems, amongst others.
Confirmed audio system embody Ayotunde Coker, CEO, Open Entry Knowledge Centres, Digital Infrastructure Professional; Ayo Adegboye, CEO, Arravo; Ifeoluwa Sobogun, Technical Lead, Paystack; and Fatumata Coker, Chairman, CreditRegistry.
Business companions for the BTW embody Arravo Know-how, Open Entry Knowledge Centres, Blue Marina Asset Administration, Entry Holdings, CreditRegistry, and Cordros Securities, with additional confirmations pending.