Unlock your Entrepreneurial Potential. Shape your Community. And Maybe Even Change the World.
What You Will Learn
Join over 254,000+ learners across Kenya and Rwanda in the Wavumbuzi Entrepreneurship Challenge.
Explore exciting industry quests, solve real-world challenges, earn points and badges, climb national leaderboards, and discover what it takes to think like an entrepreneur.
What You’ll Gain:
- Real entrepreneurial skills
- Exposure to different industries
- National competition experience
- Recognition and awards
- Access to mentorship opportunities
- Confidence to turn ideas into action
What Are Quests?
Quests are the heart of the Wavumbuzi Challenge. Each Quest introduces a real industry such as healthcare, agriculture, fintech, or creative arts through the story of a real African innovator. From there, you will complete a series of practical tasks that encourage entrepreneurial thinking.
Through quests you will:
Explore different industries with each edition and see how entrepreneurs operate in each one.
Complete practical tasks that develop real entrepreneurial skills.
Earn points and badges as progress is made.
Compete on a national leaderboard.
Develop entrepreneurial thinking that continues to grow beyond school.
Learning Mechanism
Practical and Applied
In Wavumbuzi, you engage with gamified Quests that reflect real-world problems and opportunities across diverse industries. Each challenge provides a practical experience, such as identifying a community problem or developing a business solution, helping entrepreneurial concepts become easier to understand through practice.
Gamified Competition
Wavumbuzi uses gamification to support both internal and external motivation and keep you engaged. The Challenge is structured as a digital competition: you register on a platform and complete challenges to earn points, badges, and rankings, with your progress displayed on individual and school leaderboards. This game-based approach creates a sense of competition, reward, and immediate feedback throughout your learning journey.
Top performers are celebrated weekly and at the Wavumbuzi Awards Ceremony at the end of each edition.
The Power of Story
Peer Review System
At the end of each Quest, you answer an open-ended question and review responses from your peers. Guided scoring and feedback help you recognise your strengths and improve over time.
Top Learners Mentorship
Wavumbuzi Challenge World: How It Works
- Sign up through your school and create your Wavumbuzi profile
- Choose and complete quests in different industries.
- Earn points and badges for each challenge you complete.
- Track your progress on the leaderboard.
- Reflect and grow by seeing how your thinking changes over time.
- Compete nationally and stand a chance to be recognised as a top student or school.
Learner's toolkit
We provide all the resources you need to get started:
INFORMATION
BOOKLET
Overview of the programme and your role.
REGISTRATION
GUIDES
Follow the step-by-step guide.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions.
Registration
You can join the Challenge through your school when registration opens in your country. Participation is free; you only need access to a device and an internet connection to complete your quests.
Your data is safe. Wavumbuzi only collects the information needed to run the Challenge and does not share personal details with third parties. See our Privacy Policy.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
Learner Support
Resetting a Learner Password
(You may use ANY of the 3 methods provided)
On the Learner Login Page, Select the 3rd Option “I have taken part in Wavumbuzi before, but I do not remember my account details”
1. Security Question Method
Step 1: Enter the learner’s email address
Step 2: Select security question and answer (as provided by the learner) during registration
Step 3: Click ‘Reset Password’ to complete the reset
2. Email Reset Method
Step 1: Learner enters their registered email address on the login page
Step 2: Learner clicks the Reset Password button
Step 3: A password reset link is sent directly to the learner’s email inbox
The learner MUST have access to their registered email to use this method.
3. OTP (One-Time Pin) Method
Step 1: Learner must belong to your School i.e Approved and Verified
Step 2: Enter the learner’s email and set a new password
Step 3: Teacher Goes to: Go to Teacher Portal → My School → Learner Verification Codes to retrieve the OTP → Give OTP to the learner
Step 4: Learner enters the OTP code to complete the password reset
Highly Recommended
Contact your Regional Ambassador for further Support
Watch this guide for steps on how to register and update your profile
All challenges in Wavumbuzi Headquarters must be completed first. After that, any Quest can be selected.
To complete a Quest, all challenge questions must be submitted. These may include multiple-choice, multi-select, and a final open-text question. Once a Quest has started, it must be completed before another Quest can be selected.
The Learner Leaderboard shows the top learners and schools and updates every 2 hours. Learners can access it by selecting the trophy icon at the bottom of the homepage. Teachers can access it through the Teacher Portal by going to Dashboard, then Leaderboard.
Weekly prizes are awarded to top Wavumbuzi learners. Winners are announced on the Wavumbuzi social media channels, and a Wavumbuzi Ambassador contacts them by email or phone to arrange prize delivery.
At the end of the Challenge, top learners, teachers, and schools receive overall awards during the Wavumbuzi National Awards Ceremony. Top learners are then invited to join the Wavumbuzi Top Learners Mentorship Programme
For a learner to count as fully engaged, you will need a minimum of 40 submissions
The Wavumbuzi Entrepreneurship Challenge works as follows:
- Quests: Quests: Each Quest is a set of structured, practical challenges set in a specific industry or sector, such as AI, mechatronics, or trade, to broaden learners’ knowledge
- Pathways: Each Quest includes four Pathways, each built around a real entrepreneurship story.
- Challenges: Each Pathway has six questions, including multiple-choice questions, where one correct answer is selected, and multi-select questions, where several correct answers are chosen.
- The Final Pathway: The final Pathway in each Quest is an open-text business case, where learners apply what they have learned to develop a business idea. Submissions are peer reviewed, allowing learners to give and receive feedback.
- Points: Each completed challenge earns points. Challenge formats include multiple-choice questions, multi-select questions, and open-text questions.
Learners can complete up to five peer reviews each day. This helps learners build new ideas by reviewing final challenge submissions from each Quest.
Clear review guidelines and guiding questions are provided to support fair and thoughtful evaluation of peer submissions.
Thoughtful, high-quality reviews earn points as follows:
- 1st review: 20 points
- 2nd review: 18 points
- 3rd review: 16 points
- 4th review: 14 points
- 5th review: 12 points
Only high-quality reviews earn points. Careful reading and meaningful feedback help peers improve while strengthening each learner’s own learning journey.
The Learner Leaderboard gives an overview of the top learners and schools. The leaderboards update every 2 hours. Learners can access the leaderboard by clicking on the trophy at the bottom of the homepage.
Learners earn points for each submitted challenge, based on submission quality. After submitting a challenge, learners review and mark three peer submissions, earning additional points for accurate reviews. Points can also be earned through referrals, profile completion, and other platform activities. Each time points are earned, a notification appears in the Gameworld, and total points can be viewed in the learner profile.
Both the Baseline and Post Surveys are available on the Wavumbuzi Learner Portal, also known as the Gameworld.
- Baseline Survey: Earn 300 points upon completion.
- Post Survey: Earn 500 points upon completion.
- Weekly Surveys: Earn 150 points for each completed survey.
All learners who participate in Wavumbuzi and earn a minimum of 2,000 points will receive a certificate at the end of the challenge. Certificates can be accessed and downloaded via the Learner Portal and will also be sent to learners’ emails for easy access when the system is closed. Teachers can also download learner certificates from the Teacher Portal and will receive a notification once they are available.
Wavumbuzi Alumni Community
Through the Wavumbuzi Community, alumni stay connected as they continue into further study, employment, entrepreneurship, and other pathways.
The community helps turn the mindsets, competencies, aspirations, and confidence developed in school into pathways toward dignified and fulfilling work.
How Wavumbuzi Supports Alumni
Mentorship, peer learning, and leadership development
Opportunities to give back through school visits and mentoring younger learners
Networking and connections for alumni building businesses or exploring career pathways
Access to the Wavumbuzi Community Portal
Alumni Impact
A long-term study by Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) found that 64.3% of Wavumbuzi alumni had launched businesses or other entrepreneurial ventures, with strong scores in entrepreneurial commitment, attitudes, skills, and knowledge.
Are you a Wavumbuzi alumni?
Join the community and stay connected.
