University of Nairobi's Team ABE Needs Your Vote

Four University of Nairobi engineering students are finalists in the biennial global Airbus Fly Your Ideas competition.

The students who are in their fourth year teamed up a couple of months ago to form A.B.E an acronym for Aero Bamboo Engineering.

The group of Marian Muthui, Alex Njira, Karl Heinz and Tony Kadiegu Mugita pitched their idea of using bamboo to make the interior cabin and flooring of aircraft as an alternative to conventional material.

The bamboo is styled into bamboo Honeycomb lattice which is lighter and stronger compared to wood. The innovation also comes with embedded thermal acoustic foam as a replacement for non-recyclable composite materials used in the manufacture of aircraft cabin items.

Doodle 4 Google 2013 Competition Launch

Wangari Maathai Google Doodle, 1st April 2013

As Kenya celebrates its 50th anniversary since independence in December, Google Kenya will launch the Doodle 4 Google 2013 competition, which will be open to all Kenyan school students aged between 6 years to 18 years.

The competition will encourage them to create their own doodles, allowing the students a chance to win a techie prize for himself/herself and for his/her school.

The theme for the 2013 contest is “My Kenya.”

Abass Kubaff, Wyre to conquer Nairobi, Mombasa in Pilsner Pool

After painting Meru and Kisumu red in the Pilsner League of Kings Pool Challenge after party, Abbas Kubaff and Wyre eye to conquer Nairobi and Island city of Mombasa.

With the Pilsner League of Kings Pool Challenge at its exciting regional stages, pool enthusiasts will be treated to a double-header pool action-cum music extravaganza at the KI and Yellow Ribbon in Nairobi and Mombasa on Saturday 27th, 2013.

Abbas, in Meru last week will be in Mombasa while Wyre will hope to replicate his Kisumu experience at Nairobi’s K1. They will be joined by celebrated hype-men DNG, Jalango and former DJ Mfalme winners DJ Ricky and Nelly.

In what the organisers are dubbing as the ‘two-in-one’ Pilsner experience, the both the  regional pool games kick off at 5pm and will be joined by the DJ’s and hypemen in a three part showdown program from 8pm. The performances start at midnight followed by more music till morning.

National Art Competition: 2013 MASK Art Prize

The 2013 MASK Art Prize annual national art competition in Kenya, is now open to

- any Kenyan school (state or private, polytechnics, colleges and universities), and

- any young person up to the age of 25 who lives in Kenya or is a member of the Kenya diaspora.

ENTER the artworks to win Prizes and exhibit at the Nairobi National Museum in June 2013 and the Saatchi Gallery in London in September 2013. 

Here are the prizes up for grabs:

The three best artists will be awarded a prize of Ksh55,000 each, and one of them – a trip to London.

One school, with the best and highest number of artworks entered, will be awarded a year’s supply of art materials worth Ksh100,000.