Congrats to the Ethiopian teams at the Pan African Informatics Olympiad (Rwanda) and Pan African Math Olympiad (Ivory Coast). PAIO: 6/6 team members were AC alums, and the coach was an AC 2025 TA. PAMO: 2/6 team members were AC alums. The alums brought home 7 medals!

AddisCoder 2026 has officially begun! Week 1 is being kicked off by @AlexKrentsel.

Congratulations to Yordanose (SOS Bahir Dar->Lideta Catholic Cathedral School, AddisCoder'24) on her admission to Wellesley College, on a full ride scholarship.

Matei Zaharia, Professor at UC Berkeley and Cofounder/CTO of Databricks, has won the ACM Prize in Computing, donating the $250k Infosys prize to AddisCoder. We are extremely grateful for this gift, which we will use to advance our mission of increasing access in computer science.

Congratulations to Tewobistya (AddisCoder’23, Nazareth School->UWC), who will be starting her freshman year at Northwestern this Fall!

Congrats to Nathan (AddisCoder’25, @HaileManas) and Haile (AddisCoder’23, Asossa High School in Benishangul-Gumuz) on joining MIT’s freshman class this upcoming Fall, both on full rides.

Congrats to Merwan of Kotebe University Menelik I Science Shared campus (AddisCoder’25), who will head to Princeton this Fall on a full ride.

Congratulations to Ephrem (ODA Special Boarding School) and Mizan (Kallamino Special High School), both from AddisCoder'23, on being admitted to UC Berkeley. Mizan additionally won the Robinson scholarship, providing a 100% full ride.

Congratulations to Makda Tsegazeab (AddisCoder’19, Mekelle University’26) on her admission to KAIST to pursue a fully funded Master’s in Science and Technology Policy. (Photos from AddisCoder 2019 and now!)

Congrats to Akotet Yeshaw Tesema (AddisCoder'19) for graduating summa cum laude from KAIST with a degree in computer science. He is now continuing his MS at KAIST, working on ML/graph neural networks. Also excited that he's returning to AddisCoder 2026 as a teaching assistant!

Congrats Nafira Gebre Dedefo (AddisCoder’23) of the Oromia Development Association Special Boarding School on admission to UPenn with a full ride!

Congratulations Abinet Teshome (AddisCoder’25) of @HaileManas on admission to Harvard on a full ride!

Congratulations to Misgina Gebretsadik Kahsay (AddisCoder'16), who after completing his Bachelor's at Mekelle Institute of Technology has now just been accepted with a full @MastercardFdn scholarship to pursue a Master's at Arizona State. (2nd photo from AddisCoder 9 years ago!)

Also, after studying Python and algorithms in AddisCoder, he later created his own program ("BaroCoder-101") in Gambella to share the knowledge he learned with other fellow high schoolers.