AddisCoder

አዲስ አበባ ዩኒቨርሲቲ እና አዲስኮደር ከ14 ዓመት በፊት የተጀመረውን ከመላው ኢትዮጲያ የከፍተኛ ውጤት በማግኘት ለተመረጡ የ2ኛ ደረጃ ተማሪዎች የሚሰጠውን የኮምፕዩተር መሠረተ ስልጠና ትብብራችንን አጠናክረን ለመቀጠል ስምምነት ላይ ደርሰናል ።

The AddisCoder 2025 dates have been set: July 28 to August 22, 2025 (with teaching assistants showing up a week early). Come learn programming algorithms!

Prospective teaching assistants and students, apply by the December 31st deadline: https://addiscoder.com/

Thanks to our sponsors, the program is 100% free, including lodging+meals. All Ethiopian high school students between grades 9 and 11 are eligible to apply.

It was an honor today to be visited by H.E. Prof. Berhanu Nega, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Minister of Education. The Ministry of Education Ethiopia has been one of AddisCoder’s close partners since 2016, and our impact would not be possible without this continued collaboration.

Congratulations to Michael Girma (AddisCoder 2018) for his admission to the Caltech Class of 2027!

The AddisCoder 2023 application portal is now live! Prospective students and teaching assistants, apply at https://addiscoder.com/ .

AddisCoder is a 4-week summer program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia that teaches algorithms and programming to high school students (100% free, including room and board). No prior programming experience required or expected from the high school participants.

TA deadline: Dec 31, 2022
Student deadline: Jan 25, 2023

Congrats to AddisCoder alum Michael Yitayew for having his joint work published in the Journal of the ACM, the top publication venue across all of computer science! The paper shows how to make boolean formulas resilient to faulty gates; a prelim version appeared in CCC 2019.

Optimal Short-Circuit Resilient Formulas | Journal of the ACM We consider fault-tolerant boolean formulas in which the output of a faulty gate is short-circuited to one of the gate’s inputs. A recent result by Kalai et al. [FOCS 2012] converts any boolean formula into a resilient formula of polynomial size that ...

AddisCoder alums Ykealo and Firaol ready to head to Harvard and MIT, respectively. Thank you Dr. Solomon Benor from the Ministry of Education for your support, and thank you also to the many others in government who have worked to support AddisCoder over the years (Dr. Shumete Gizaw, H.E. Prof. Getahun Mekuria, H.E. Prof. Afework Kassu, Dr. Samuel Kifle, and countless others).

Congratulations to Bereket Mehari Tadesse (AddisCoder’19 from Addis Ababa, and alumnus of Akaki Adventist School and the African Leadership Academy) for being admitted to Case Western’s Class of 2026, with a full ride scholarship!

Congratulations to Ykealo Ghide Misghina (AddisCoder'19 from Serejeka, Eritrea, and alumnus of Kallamino Special High School in Mek'ele) for being admitted to Harvard!

The AddisCoder organizers have been very eager to bring AddisCoder back in Summer 2022. Unfortunately, due to some logistical difficulties, we will have to delay the program again though we have already begun working on addressing the logistical issues for 2023. Please stay tuned. We know many students were looking forward to applying to and potentially participating in the program this summer, and we are likewise disappointed that we have not been able to resume the program in 2022.