Congratulations to the university student winners of the East Africa Gadget Competition!
The award winners' gadgets are linked below. Or, check out the complete directory of gadgets for your Personalized Homepage.
List of winning gadgets
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Overall Winner
Antoine Nzeyimana
Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, RwandaIgisoro is a two player game in the Mancala family. This variant is played primarily in Rwanda. Igisoro, like Omweso, is played with an 8×4 board of pits and 64 seeds. Each player starts with 4 seeds in each pit in the back row of his/her territory. On his/her turn, a player chooses a pit containing seeds in their territory and sows them placing one seed in each pit as she/he moves counter-clockwise around his territory. After two introductory turns for each player (*Kuvuna/Kwivunura*), the player can start targeting his opponent seeds by counter-clockwise turns or sometimes clockwise turns (*Guteba/Kugarama*) around his own territory.
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Most Technically Sophisticated Gadget
Hussein Lightwalla
Strathmore University, KenyaA numbers game that tests basic arithmetic (addition) speed.
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Best Gadget UI
Murithi Borona
University of Nairobi, KenyaA wizard for generating charts using the Google Chart API. Implementing pie charts only, this gadget will shortly support most, if not all, of the charts exposed by the Google chart API.
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Best Local Content Gadget
Peter Munene Karunyu
Moi University, KenyaThis gadget displays a randomly selected African proverb in a native African language, an English translation and also offers an explanation.
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Best Education Specific Gadget
Jean Claude Nzayisenga
National University of Rwanda, RwandaThis gadget translates the Roman alphabet into Sign Language or Braille alphabets.
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Best Procrastination Gadget
Miano Njoka
JKUAT, KenyaThis sliding puzzle consists of a grid of jumbled up images with one square missing, which when arranged correctly form a recognisable image. You can get a hint if you get stuck, or even watch as an inbuilt algorithm solves it for you.