The fellowship program is a training event organized by Olotu Square and our partners to educate community members in certain areas of computer programming, design and digital marketing, giving them a chance to practice what they’ve learned until they become skilled.
Most people dive into the ambiguous or rather complex world of computer programming without proper guidance only to get stuck in the middle of it. They follow certain signs that say “learn ‘This and that in one week’ ” and sometimes they pay a huge amount of money but get low quality training or in some case quality training but left to find a way with the knowledge.
Solution: In Olotu Square we hold high personal development as our number one priority, so we don’t just train people but we also provide them with tools and all the mentorship on career choice they might need. At the end of the program, the participants automatically become a part of the community where they can benefit from anyone within, so the learning never stops.
Cost: The program is entirely free for the participants. However, in the background, sponsorship is needed to cover the cost of running the program.
Become an Olotu Square Fellow
Pitch Day & Free Consultancy
Pitch Day
A pitch day is simply a roster of days we appoint different members of the community to pitch on their skills or award to any startup looking to get feedback on their startup ideas, product, brand design, A/B Test concept, approach to market, pricing, and more. Members of the square and the public are invited to hear the startup pitch after which all necessary feedbacks or support needed is offered. This is also a recruitment pipeline for our Incubation programme.
Consultancy
In a vain to continuously encourage newbies in startup & tech, we deliberately have sessions where we provide free consultancy services to these techies or to founders looking to start, grow, access funds, seek mentorship, or be featured on our regular radio show.
Annual Community Events
Our Community Yearly Events
From time to time, we hold events… From competitions, to career advancement/development and some for relaxation and fun. We try as much as possible to strike a balance between work and life in general. Here’s a list of activities that we are involved in.
TensorFlow Dev Summit (April)
TensorFlow Dev Summit is an event that brings together a diverse mix of machine learning users from around the world for a full day of highly technical talks, demos, and conversation with the TensorFlow team and community and also provide mentorship to using this technology.
Gifts offered for Registering includes:
T Shirt Swags, Google Glasses, Stickers, Refreshment and One-on-One meeting with our Tech Mentors.
TechFest Port Harcourt (December)
This is a festival of fun for tech communities in Nigeria.
Picnic styled group talks, Food, Games, Music, Face painting, Drama, Comedy, Tech Rap battle, etc
Techfest is where all the tech communities, tech companies, tech hubs, etc gather to have fun and network for the new year.
Games include: Table tennis, Ludo, Scrabble, Chess, Snooker, Table soccer, Canta Ball, Tug Of War, Whot, Monopoly, Eating Competition (The biggest Bugger ever made by BIG Kitchen, Port Harcourt).
Google Hash Code (February)
Hash Code is a team programming competition organized by Google for students and industry professionals across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Food in Tech (April)
Food in Tech is an Olotu Square themed event where we bring diverse techies together to relax and have fun around a nice meal table full of African delicacies. The aim is to create an atmosphere where techies who never have the time to take a step back and relax can find the time to.
TechStars Startup Weekend Port Harcourt (November)
Startup Weekend is Techstars Global premier event where companies are built in 54 hours. In
this event attendees get immersed in the ideal environment surrounded by smart, passionate people and with the best tools, by taking giant leaps toward creating a business, becoming a founder, and connecting with the right people and resources.
ForloopPH
The Port Harcourt chapter of forLoop Africa: A community of passionate software developers and enthusiasts across Africa.
Google Cloud Next 2017 ( March )
Google cloud is an event created to get new ideas. Learn from industry experts and engage with peers. This event aims at bringing together executives, customers, partners, developers, IT decision makers, and Google Engineers to build the future of the cloud.
Awards given out and how to get them.
Invite 5 friends, send the names & email to [email protected] and win a FREE Google Cloud T-shirt, Google Buttons and Google UV glasses.
Opentalk GIT day (May)
GIT, Github and version control systems in software development.
The training is held to equip more developers on how to maximise the use of GIT while we have fun coding and building better collaborative projects.
Price paid to be a part of the event is N1000 (one thousand naira only) .
We are Opentalk-Techies and we loved to take you on this ride.
Radio Show – (Every Tuesday 9:30am)
Being heard is critical to businesses and in these times and region of operations, it is most crucial that we contribute to the advertising ambitions of startups. Hence, we have a radio show on Rhythm 93.7 Port Harcourt every Tuesday at 9:30 to discuss startups and technology. At the end of every show we announce a startup for the day and market the startup to the public for patronage. Reach out to us for more information
