One last thing, make sure to bring lunch (or lunch money).

Thank you for your participation in todays workshop. We hope you enjoyed interacting with the instructors as much as they did interacting with you. Don't hesitate to reach out to us if you have any comments, concerns, or suggestions. Great turn out today!

After sending the above announcement, we've been getting an overwhelming number of messages asking if we can do the registration on your behalf. The reason we provided option 3 is for extreme circumstances where you tried the link using your phone and a computer and both fails. Once again, please only revert to the Telegram registration if you tried the link using a computer and it does not work (which it should). We would still need to go through Google Forms to complete your registration and it gets overwhelming when 50 people send messages in a matter of an hour. So please only send us messages asking to register you if it's impossible for you to register otherwise. Good night y'all!

Hello everyone!

As you know, we offer two more workshops on March 3 and March 10 that will cover different aspects of the application process. So far, we have more than 75 students registered for the March 3 workshop. So if you plan to attend the Saturdays workshop, make sure to register in the next two days to be guaranteed a spot. The March 10 workshop still has more openings so please prioritize that if there is no schedule conflict.

Last but not least, we want to reiterate that the Telegram registration is for extreme circumstances. More than 100 students registered using the link so there is no reason it shouldn’t work for you. Reasons like “there is no Internet cafe near me,” “I tried it using my phone but it didn’t work” are not valid reasons. If you can’t go to an Internet cafe and complete a 2 minute form, then how do you expect to apply to a dozen of universities which require you to visit the Internet cafe several times for several hours? So please resort to the Telegram registration if it’s impossible for you to register otherwise.

We’re available to answer any questions if need be.

Much love!

We're excited to see those of you who registered for tomorrow's workshop. To reiterate a few things:
Location: Cathedral School (Piassa)
Room: Library
Time: 9am - 4pm (tewat 3 se'at eske ke'seat 10 se'at)
Try to bring lunch or lunch money and arrive promptly at 9am. And don't forget to bring a flash drive so that you can take important application materials.

Have a blessed night!

Huge turnout yesterday! Thank you for coming out everyone. We hope you found the workshop very useful. Feel free to reach out to us for questions, suggestions, or comments. For those of you who didn’t get a chance to attend our past two workshops, make sure you register for the last one on March 10 (the coming Saturday) as soon as possible.

Melkam mishit!

We look forward to seeing those of you who registered for our last workshop tomorow at 9am in Cathedral. Since it's our last spring workshop, if you weren't able to attend any of our sessions so far due to registration issues, DM me at @Amanuel_ML with your info and I'll get you registred. Don't forget to bring a flashdrive tomorrow so that you can take important application materials. Night!

Massive thank you to all of you who participated in our workshops. We hope you enjoyed the workshops and got some important information about what the application process entails. As you may have recognized by now, college applications are very demanding so make sure you plan things in advance if you decide to go that route.

Even though yesterday’s event concludes our spring workshops, we will be back with a more intensive 6 week program somewhere between late June and August that delves deep into what you were introduced to during the workshops. Keep an eye out for announcements about that! We suggest that you prepare a personal statement (or essay about who you are and why you want to attend the 6 week session) in advance as it will be an important part of admittance to the program. We will provide more information about that when we release the application.

Once again, our instructors enjoyed interacting with you all and we hope to see you again at the summer sessions! The whole team will introduce ourselves in the coming weeks so that you can forward any questions about CTP and the application process directly to the us. Thank you and መልካም እሁድ!

As promised, in the days to follow, members of the CTP Team will introduce themselves one by one so that you can get to know us a little better. To get us started, the one and only Amanuel will make his intro.

Amanuel, known to most as Aman, is a senior at Columbia GS. He has been part of the CTP team since he transferred to Columbia in 2016. He currently serves as co-president--alongside the amazing Mahlet Lulseged. Aman is passionate about education and sees himself doing something that's an intersection of technology and education somewhere in Africa. Aman is happiest and most satisfied when he helps others. He gives his heart and soul to CTP and does his best to see it become the best that it can be. In his spare time, Aman follows everything there is to follow about football (the real football!) Oh and he is up for a FIFA challenge any day of the week. Bring your A game so that the score line is a bit respectable.

Reach out to me @Amanuel_ML. I’ll be happy to chat with you or answer your questions anytime!

Herma is a freshman at Columbia University, thinking of pursuing a career in Chemical Engineering. She joined CTP in August 2017 and will be working towards finding sponsorship this summer to fund the cause. Three interesting things about her: she has the unfortunate ability to down 2 jars of Nutella in 2 days, she dabs way too much, and you can count on finding her dancing at 1am. She will be returning to Addis to teach and coordinate the CTP summer sessions, so don’t be shy to say hello!

Rediet is a freshman at Columbia University currently exploring Economics and Computer Science majors. She is an alum of CTP both as a student and an instructor. Rediet currently serves as head of education and mentorship on the CTP board and is passionate about anything related to academia and teaching. Fun facts: the first thing you would notice about Rediet is her out of the world laugh that will probably scare the living day light out of you. She is known for devouring 4 kilos of shimbera kolo in less than a month and she can quote every line from any episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
She is always happy to assist you with anything you need and feel free to reach out with any questions you may have.

Mahlet is a sophomore at Columbia University studying computer science and also hoping to minor in political science. She attended the 2015 CTP summer session and joined the CTP Addis Team as an instructor in 2016. She currently serves as the co-president of CTP alongside the remarkable Aman. Three fun facts about Mahlet. When Mahlet was a little girl she wanted to a prime Minister and she still cares a lot about Ethiopian politics. She is a “self-proclaimed” Marxist, even though she still has not read the communist manifesto yet(don’t worry it is on her summer reading list) and when she is not busy thinking about the evils of Capitalism and the class struggle , she can be found cramming for midterms on the 4th floor of Butler. (Columbia’s largest library) Mahlet also enjoys stalking her old classmates on social media and finding out what they have been up to since graduation. (She misses Nazareth school, her old high school a lot  ). She hopes to have her own blog one day.

But wait, there's more!

Yishak is currently a sophomore at Columbia College majoring in something cool. He joined CTP as a freshman at Columbia and has been helping out as CTP's Vice President since the past September. Because he majors in something cool, he spends what time he has to spare on cool things. He doesn't like uncool things, obviously. He also doesn't say much until he does. Ask him questions and see what happens.

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You can reach him with @yitzhaqm.