Flagship · Annual
Hackathon Inter-Universitaire
48 hours, twelve campuses, one prompt. Mixed teams from every partner university ship a working prototype against a real Malagasy challenge — agriculture, fintech, civic tech, energy.
Mandray.Mivelona.Mizara.
A community in Madagascar for everyone who lives and breathes tech. We receive, live and share — from undergrads to senior engineers, from Antananarivo to Fianarantsoa.
1,400+
Active members
12
Partner universities
60+
Events delivered
8 yrs
Building together
// about the association
What it means to be Techzara
Three Malagasy verbs guide everything we do. They sound simple. In a growing tech ecosystem, they are everything.
01 / Receive
Mandray.Welcome every learner.
Whether you wrote your first hello-world yesterday or your first kernel patch last year — you belong here. No gatekeeping.
02 / Live
Mivelona.Practice the craft.
We don't talk about tech in theory. We build, ship, fail, debug, and ship again — together, every week of the year.
03 / Share
Mizara.Pass it on.
What you learn isn't yours alone. Talks, code reviews, mentorships — knowledge circulates so the whole island levels up.
// what we run
Where the community meets
Three flagship programs run year-round. Free, open to all, hosted across partner campuses and on the Techzara discord.
Quarterly meetup
IT Connect
Industry meets students. Engineers from local and global companies share what they actually work on — architectures, post-mortems, career paths.
Every Saturday
Weekly Coding Challenge
Sharpen the saw. A new problem drops every Saturday morning. Solo or in teams — share your solution, get reviewed, level up.
$ techzara challenge --week 113// Brief: parse SMS-money receipts, normalize amounts.✓ Test suite ready · 4 sample inputs · solutions due Sat 23:59
// say hello
Want in? Reach out.
Drop us a line — to join, to host a talk, to partner on the next hackathon, or just to say hi to the team.
Call us
+261 32 94 730 33
Facebook
fb.com/Techzara
Where we gather
Antananarivo, Madagascar — and every partner campus