Year 2024 Lessons learnt last year

Umm, In all honesty I donot know how to start this I know there are things I wish i had done different last year but overall last year was the best year of my life I learnt so many things, It was my first year that I had done things that were succesfull.

I had some taste of success, if you are reading this i know you will find so many grammar errors but that’s me and i like to do things fast and break them and revise them again for some other time(pratically never).

I have always in my life been an outsider everywhere I go I feel like I don’t belong there, it has caused me so many suffering most of time I feel alone and emptiness.

I always ask myself a question: why me?, most of the time I think about creating something that can change people lives for better and make the world a better place.

I guess I have the answer to my question, I think and act different from most of my peers I am always learning something new and trying to find solutions for problems outside class.

2024

2024 started as other years I had nothing in my mind, I mean it literally nothing but gradually things changed slowly as the days passed by.

Let me explain…

Jan

If you remember I told I had a club called Morncast but 2023 I had done less to what i wished to do and this was a perfect time as Hack Club introduced pizza grant, you would draw a pizza and then you would get $100 for your next club meeting and buy some pizza so that’s the first thing I did.

This was my first time gathering people outside school in one place, I had to search for a venue I think we were about 30 people and luckily i convince someone to get us a place for free, it was super awesome, all this was my first time and things I wish i knew that

  • Perfect means nothing
  • If you ask you will be given(never be afraid)

and here are some pictures

that’s all for January!!

Feb

February was all about trying to get a visa to attend of one Hack Club event Summit for club leaders, long story short my visa was denied so that’s all about Feb.

Keep scrolling…

No way did you belive this was over no I had other things to cook up.

So here’s the list of things I did

  • I Volunteered in Wit google event at CMU (women in tech)
  • I become postman student expert
  • Again after becoming postamn student expert I become Student Leader Here I organinsed multiple online events. I don’t where the photos are but yeah it was a lot of fun.
  • Created my game using sprig a Hack club ysws (you ship we ship)
  • Made some business cards using NFC again it was a PCB ysws of Hack Club

Things I learnt this month:

  • Just do it, there is no perfect moment.
  • If you have time, learn something new.

Mar

Umm, now my mind is playing trickes on me. I believe I had done nothing this month, I might have to rethink about this.

Apr

This is was the month that would lead to a snowball effect, ok what did i do this month and why am i saying this?

Did you know the word that “hackathon” if not you in luck, so basically it is an event that programmer work together to build something in a very short amount of time like a marathon but a hackathon is not associated with hacking even if somemay I guess that would be a CTF(capture the flag).

Things I did in this month:

  • Bought a domain name for the hackathon website
  • My first meeting with Irembo, shout out to Jessica for helping out [irembo.com].
  • Met with I would say my mentor in HR things, shout out to Nina for all great advice and being a very integral part of planning and making this a reality [bktechouse.rw]

May, June and July

Continued planning the events and boarded some people to help to be co-organizers, worked every hard no my exams, Yoo! I closed the year in 10 top I would tell this in March I would have laughed at you.

Aug

The best month of my life at a till now, things I did this month were beyond me I swear, I read 5 books from back to back and organized the first high school hackathon in Rwanda and the largest a till now, it was insane the thing I am proud of is that I managed to moviated other people to do so now many high school students are doing that.

One last important thing here we being a journey to organize HackEA

Enough of words I need to see pictures wait let me tell you things we learnt.

  • A good team will help you do great stuff, a bad one opposite and I don’t want to point figures but I had a bad one very bad, I did everything myself so, choose wisely.
  • Read books you have time, please this will change you for better. ooh this is the list of those i read in this year (48 Laws of power, Richest man in babylon, Atomic Habits, 5 AM club and the last one Outliers)
  • Ask for help especialy when you think you know something and when you don’t.
  • Go a head do the thing you are most afraid of I did, you must ask what legacy do you need to leave behind you.

Sept, Oct, Nov

It was time for school again so nothing much other than failing my class as if it was my first time studying.

Dec

Nice one! what did you do I want to one for real. Aaa for me I study one of the hardest exams in networking yes you had me right I was still dealing with class but I literally ditch it and went all in for this exam and I passed it I wouldn’t let $1000+ go to waste.

Also during this time I become a SAD(Special Agent Division) which is responsible to make Hack Club more welcoming and also to connect people in general through organizing events, I enjoyed every event.

This month was filled with many stuff I participated in High Seas one of Hack Club events and oh boy did I do so many things and learnt a lot after every long time not programming, shout to to Bartsar for helping out and understanding me when I did stupid stuff.

List of things I did.

Things I learnt.

  • Put in the work, and donot focus on results
  • Take a break if needed, do not rush things
  • Sometimes you sacrifies something for another

Some photos now!