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Why hackathons are the fastest way to grow a local tech ecosystem

Thirty-six hours, a real problem and a room full of strangers — the best recruiting and learning tool we know.

Talent in Nepal is not the bottleneck. Connection is. Hackathons put students, working developers, designers and domain experts in one room with one deadline.

Real problems beat toy problems

We anchor every hackathon in a local challenge such as crop prices, rural clinics or school access. Teams that solve something real keep building after the weekend ends.

Mentors in the room

Our agency engineers mentor during the event. Participants see how production code gets written, and we meet the people we will hire and incubate next.

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