The annual Python programming conference for professionals, entrepreneurs, scientists, academics and students.

Education days at NUST and JMTC

We are repeating the successful collaborations we held in 2024, bringing our PyCon speakers and coaches directly to university students at  NUST and school pupils at Jakob Marengo Tutorial College in Katatura.

This is a draft programme, more sessions will be confirmed soon.

Monday
24th February

By invitation and registration only

Namibia University of Science and Technology

Morning - talks 09:00-12:30

NUST Namibia Business Innovation Centre (map)
1-3 Glueck Street

Empowering future coders: a robotics teacher’s journey in the classroom
Nyambe Felix Matongo (Namibia)

Maybe you'd like to be a product manager
Andreea Munteanu (Romania)

The adoption and role of open source software in schools
Robson Kanhalelo (Namibia)

A challenge
Daniele Procida (Italy)

Introduction to Web Scraping
Saurav Jain (India)

Build a modern frontend for your Django project the simple way
Sheena O'Connell (South Africa)

Responding to COVID
Kateřina Hroníková (Czech Republic)

Lunch 12:30-13:30

NUST Hotel School (map)
corner Beethoven and Brahms Street

Afternoon - hands-on workshops 13:30-16:30

NUST India Namibia Centre of Excellence in Technology (map)
Haydn Street

Physical computing with Python and BBC micro:bit

Job search and application workshop
With hiring leads from international companies

16:00 Students' presentations
Short talks by students from NUST

Student presentations at PyCon Namibia

NUST students: we want to hear from you.

We have six ten-minute slots for students to give a short talk at the end of the day.

We would like a presentation, with slides. Examples could be:

  • discussion of a technical topic
  • discussion of a problem solved
  • showing us something you have done or achieved, related to programming or your studies
  • presentation of an ambition for something that will have impact, with a plan for achieving it

Each one can be a maximum of ten minutes long. This is a strict limit.

There will be a prize for the best presentation.

Email the conference organisers (address below) if you would like to do a short presentation.

Tuesday
25th February

By invitation and registration only

JMTC
Mungunda Street

Morning - 09:00

Introduction - software learning opportunities for you
Jessica Upani (Namibia)

Physical computing workshop with Python and BBC micro:bit

Lunch 12:30-13:20

Afternoon - 13:30

Physical computing workshop with Python and BBC micro:bit (continued)