Giiyo Tech

We asked our students one question: what problem in your community do you want to solve?
One young girl did not hesitate.
She wrote about the harassment that girls in her community face every day. On the way to school. In the market. Online. She wrote about the silence around it, and how girls often do not know their rights or who to tell.
Then she did something remarkable. She decided to build a solution.
Together with her team, she is creating Girls Security, a digital platform that teaches young girls what harassment is, what their rights are under the law, and what to do if they are targeted.
She is 16 years old. She is building this because she refused to accept that nothing could be done.
This is what happens when you give young people the tools and the permission to solve their own problems.

68 days ago, we walked into Olive Bilingual School in Bonaberi with a question.
What if we stopped teaching children to use technology and started teaching them to build it?
51 students said yes. They had never written code. Most had never touched a robotics kit. Some had never thought of themselves as "tech people" at all.
Today, those same students are building apps, designing solutions to real problems in their community, and preparing to present their work to the public.
This is the Giiyo Tech STEM Club. And what we have watched happen over these weeks has reminded us why we started.
African children are not waiting to be saved by technology. They are ready to create it.
On June 20, you will see what they built.

We are officially opening registrations for the Giiyo Tech Summer Bootcamp 2026. 🚀
This year, students ages 8 to 17 will spend 8 weeks learning how to actually build with technology. Not just “computer classes.”
They will:
• Build and deploy real websites
• Explore AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot
• Create graphic design projects
• Design and print 3D objects
• Build and program robots
• Present a final capstone project at our public showcase
At Giiyo Tech, we believe African children should be creators of technology, not just consumers of it. Over the years, we’ve reached 500+ children across 15+ schools in Cameroon, and this summer we’re going even bigger.

📍 Olive Bilingual School, Bonaberi, Douala
📅 June 29 – August 29, 2026
🕚 Mondays & Wednesdays • 11AM – 2PM

Every student leaves with:
✅ Real projects they built themselves
✅ A portfolio of work
✅ An official certificate of participation
✅ Skills they can continue growing long after the bootcamp ends
Complete beginners are welcome.
Registration is now open.

🌐 giiyotech.com
📧 [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
📞 +237 670 199 687

Today, we introduced robotics to students as part of our ongoing STEM activities.
Not as theory, but as something they could see, touch, and begin to understand for themselves.
For many of them, this was their first real interaction with robotics. And you could feel it. The curiosity, the questions, the moment when things started to click.
These moments matter. Because this is how confidence begins. This is how students move from simply using technology to understanding it.
And from there, to building.
We’re just getting started. 💃🏿🕺🏿

Session 1 is done. ✅
13 young innovators. One classroom in Bonaberi. And a question that started everything:
“What problem do you see every day that nobody is fixing?”
That was Day 1 of the Giiyo Tech STEM Club pilot at Olive Bilingual School yesterday and these kids did not disappoint. They came ready to think, debate, and challenge every assumption in the room.
Shoutout to Dzubang Mermoz who led the session and refused to let them take the easy answers. When someone proposed a solution he’d ask “but do you actually have the power to fix that?” By the end of the session they understood the difference between complaining about a problem and owning one.
This is what we came to do. Not just teach technology. Teach them how to think like the people who build it.
Next Wednesday we go deeper. Digital literacy, design, and their first real output as a team.
Stay tuned for more updates 🔥
📍 Bonaberi, Douala — Cameroon

We’re expanding.
Since launching the Giiyo STEM Clubs last year, we’ve run successful programs in Limbe and Yaoundé. Now, we’re bringing it to Bonaberi, Douala. Yesterday, we signed a partnership with Olive Bilingual School to make this happen. On Monday, the program begins.
For the next 8 weeks, students will take part in hands-on STEM sessions. Not just theory, but practical learning through clubs, workshops, and real projects. The goal is simple. Help them think, build, and see problems around them as things they can solve.

Wilco, an industrial engineer from Germany, will be working with us as a facilitator. Mermoz, founder of Sizo and a mechatronics engineer from Dschang, has been part of this from the beginning and helped shape what this program is becoming.
This initiative is driven by our founder, Wepngong Maureen, a software engineer focused on building access to technology and innovation for young people.

We’re not a big organisation and we don’t have unlimited resources. What we have is a clear mission, a strong team, and young people who deserve access to this kind of opportunity.
Olive Bilingual School has trusted us with their students. We take that seriously.
This is just the beginning. 🥂
If you believe in what we’re building and want to support, collaborate, or get involved, reach out to us at [email protected].
Follow the journey. The next few weeks will show you exactly why this matters.

Giiyo Tech | Safety, Health and Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

As Cameroon begins the 2025–2026 academic year under the theme “Safety, Health and Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” Giiyo Tech proudly aligns with this national vision through meaningful actions that place children, technology, and responsible innovation at the center of learning.

Over the past month, Giiyo Tech successfully organized a one-month Coding Boot Camp that brought together 25 young learners eager to discover the world of technology. This initiative was designed not only to introduce children to coding and digital skills, but also to ensure they learned in a safe, healthy, and supportive environment.

Throughout the boot camp, participants were guided through the basics of programming, computational thinking, and simple AI-inspired concepts using age-appropriate tools. Through hands-on activities and practical exercises, the children developed problem-solving skills while learning how technology can be used creatively, responsibly, and ethically to address real-life challenges.

In line with the academic year’s theme, Giiyo Tech placed strong emphasis on digital safety and health awareness. Learners were taught how to protect their personal information online, recognize digital risks, and adopt responsible digital behaviors. Sessions on healthy screen time, proper posture, and maintaining a balance between digital learning and physical well-being were also an integral part of the program.

By combining learning, safety, and health, Giiyo Tech continues to empower young minds with the skills and values needed to thrive in an AI-driven world. This boot camp reflects our commitment to raising a new generation of confident, informed, and responsible digital citizens.

At Giiyo Tech, we believe that the future of education lies in safe innovation, healthy learning environments, and inclusive access to technology for every child.

Last Friday we handed out certificates to our GIIYO TECH Holiday Bootcamp graduates.
Four weeks from HTML beginners to learning Scratch programming and seeing traffic light demonstrations with Raspberry Pi. These kids absorbed everything from web development basics to embedded systems concepts.
Certificates well earned after completing the full curriculum.
Proud of how much they learned in such a short time.

Monday was one of those days that reminded me why I love what we do at GIIYO TECH.
While our bootcamp kids were deep into their HTML and CSS lessons in the morning, we switched gears completely in the afternoon and taught them how to make liquid soap from scratch.
You should have seen their faces when they realized they could literally create something they use every day with just a few ingredients and the right process. The same kids who were debugging code in the morning were measuring caustic soda and mixing oils in the afternoon.
They are naturally seeing the patterns between different types of creation whether it's building a website or formulating soap. They're understanding that innovation isn't just about computers; it's about applying logical thinking to solve real problems.
By the end of the day, they had working websites AND bottles of soap to take home. Their parents are going to be so confused when they show up with both code and cleaning products! 😂

This is what real education looks like… teaching kids that they can create anything, whether it's digital or physical. The mindset is the same: learn the process, follow the logic, and build something useful.