Meet Our Core Team | Eden Gosaye
Meet Eden Gosaye, our former Public Relations & Marketing Lead and, from now on, the Lead of ISHUB.
Eden has been a dedicated part of ISHUB, helping us build connections beyond our community through her outstanding communication, networking, and persuasion skills.
We are sincerely grateful for her dedication, energy, and contribution to ISHUB. We’re excited to see her lead us into the next chapter.
Thank you, Eden, and congratulations on your new role! Telegram|LinkedIn|YouTube | Tiktok

Meet Our Core Team | Eyerusalem Belay
Meet Eyerusalem Belay, our Social Media Lead and, from now on, Co-Lead of ISHUB.
Eyerusalem has been the person behind many of the posts, updates, and content that keep ISHUB connected with its community. Her energy, consistency, creativity, and fast execution have played a big role in building our social media presence.

Congratulations, Eyerusalem, on your new role! We’re excited to have you lead alongside us and take ISHUB to the next level. Telegram|LinkedIn|YouTube | Tiktok

🌼 እንቁጣጣሽ is here! 🇪🇹✨ New year, new memories, new connections! Come celebrate with the ALX community, bring a friend, meet someone new, and enjoy the culture, laughter, and good vibes. 💛

If you are new to ALX, there’ll be an Info Session to help you get to know the community and all it has to offer.

🤍 Dress Code: Any Cultural Outfit (የባህል ልብስ) or Any White Clothing

🗓 Saturday, September 5 | ነሐሴ 30, 2018 ዓ.ም.
⏰ 1:00 PM | ከቀኑ 7:00 ሰዓት ጀምሮ
📍 ALX Tech Hub, Lideta

🎟 Save your spot & bring a friend: https://luma.com/gxiuxtfp

#ALXEthiopia #ALXAfrica #EthiopianNewYear #Enkutatash #ALXCommunity #LifeAtALX #ALXFamily #DoHardThings

Last night, on my way home, I ended up having one of those unexpected conversations with a ride driver.

I usually prefer not to talk during rides. I like the quiet. But he was easy to talk to, so we started talking about work and how he became a mechanic.

He told me he dropped out of school when he was in 7th grade.

Apparently, he had gotten a very low mark in biology but a very good mark in physics. His biology and physics teachers were friends, and after seeing his grades, one of them basically told him, “You’re a stupid student.”

But the physics teacher disagreed. He told his friend, “He’s not stupid. He’s actually very smart. He understands things when he can experiment with them and work with his hands.”

Then the biology teacher told him something along the lines of, “Then go learn it. You shouldn’t be here.”

He was around 11 years old.

And he never went back to school.

He started working as a mechanic at a very young age, learned different crafts, earned his own money, and eventually built a life around practical work.

What surprised me most wasn't even the story.

It was what he said at the end.

He said he was grateful to that teacher.

I was honestly shocked.

Because from the outside, what that teacher did was completely wrong. An 11-year-old child struggling with a subject should not be labelled stupid or pushed out of school. There are children who learn differently, children with learning difficulties, children who need different methods, and children who simply haven't discovered what they're good at yet.

And this made me think about our education system.

A lot of our schooling rewards remembering information more than actually understanding it. I remember realizing this myself when I was young: if I memorized something well enough, I could get a good grade, and then forget most of it a few weeks later.

I don't think that's learning.

But there's another part of his story that stayed with me.

Something that was meant to put him down ended up pushing him toward something he genuinely loves.

The teacher wasn't right for the reason he thought he was right. The method was cruel, and the words were damaging. But somehow, that moment redirected this child's life toward something he turned out to be exceptionally good at.

And that's complicated.

Sometimes life gives us things that were meant to break us, and somehow we build something beautiful with them.

That doesn't make the thing that hurt us good.

It just means we can sometimes turn even the things that were weaponized against us into something that belongs to us.

His story made me think about how many children we've called “stupid” simply because they weren't good at the things our education system decided were important.

And how many of them might actually be brilliant at something we never gave them the chance to discover.

At ALX ETHIOPIA

ደግነቱ እግዚአብሔር አለ

Registration is open for the STARK Official Hackathon.

Start with an idea. End with something real.

Teams of 2–5. Sep 09 → Oct 02. Free to enter. 11 prize packs.

Grab a teammate, bring an idea you actually believe in, and ship it.

Register here : https://stark-hackathon.vercel.app/register


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Venture Meda Incubator — Cohort 4 is now open!

Are you building an e-commerce business and ready to scale your startup?

The Venture Meda Incubator is accepting applications for its fourth cohort, offering entrepreneurs access to:

Market opportunities

Investor linkages

Expert industry advisory

Seed funding

Support and connections to help grow your business


If you're building an e-commerce venture and looking for the right support to take it to the next level, this opportunity is worth checking out.

Apply here:
https://www.venturemeda.com/apply?program=Incubator

#Opportunities

Happy New Year 🎊

Our slack agents are now telling each other to back tf off 😂

Credit: Sarah Wooders

The question isn't whether AI can fully automate a job, it's about what parts of a job can be automated.

Find out how the nature of your work could change here: mcp-expertise-article.vercel.app

Has anyone tried making a website/web app responsive for these 👀?

📢 Are you dreaming of a meaningful international career? 🌍

The Young Administrators Programme (YPP) can pave the way toward a career at the United Nations.

📅 Applications starting in mid-October. Start preparing now!

🔗 Learn more: tr.ee/ypp_main

9th to 11th graders, apply to the (free!) AddisCoder 2027 4-week summer camp by the December 31st deadline to learn algorithms and programming.

Teaching assistant volunteers can also apply.

Camp dates: to be determined, 4 weeks in summer 2026. Link: addiscoder.com/#apply