Urbe Campus Devconnect Edition: 5-Day Bootcamp Powered by Arbitrum in Buenos Aires
Hello Arbitrum DAO community,
After the success of the Urbe Campus in Rome during Urbe Village, We’re excited to announce the upcoming Urbe Campus Devconnect Edition, a 5-day bootcamp designed to mentor new web3 builders with hands-on workshops and skill-building sessions.
This event is powered by Arbitrum and co-hosted with Dev3Pack, taking place right before the ETHGlobal hackathon during Devconnect in Buenos Aires.
Event Details
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Dates: November 10th - 14th, 2025
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Location: Huerta Coworking, Av. Dorrego 2133, C1414, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Format: Daily workshops covering key topics such as Privacy, DeFi, MiniApps, and more. Each day focuses on upgrading your dev skills to prepare you for real-world building and hacking.
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Highlights:
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Perfect prep for the ETHGlobal hackathon.
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$2,000 in bounties available for participants who submit their projects during the hackathon.
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Networking opportunities with fellow builders, organizers from ETHRome, and the broader Web3 community.
This bootcamp is an excellent chance people that want to get closer to blockchain and developers to dive deeper into the ecosystem, learn from experts, and contribute to innovative projects.
Registration
This is Lu.ma calendar: https://lu.ma/urbecampusdevconnect
For more details, check out the announcement on X: https://x.com/urbeEth/status/1980305445530014069.
We’re actively promoting this over the next days and we would love to see strong participation from the Arbitrum community.
Anyone posting on X/Farcaster about the campus, tagging @urbeEth (on X)/ @urbe-eth (on Farcaster) is extremely welcomed!
If you have questions or need more info, feel free to reply here or reach out to @urbeEth on X or just comment below"!.
Let’s build together in Buenos Aires! 
Best,
Fabri
Developer Engagement @ Urbe.eth
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Posting here the report of the bootcamp held in Bueno Aires:
TL;DR
Urbe Campus @ Devconnect Buenos Aires
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Event Overview: First Urbe Campus in Latin America – a free 5-day hands-on Web3 bootcamp during Devconnect Buenos Aires, onboarding 70+ beginner developers with 20+ hours of workshops on Solidity, smart contracts, dApps, DeFi, privacy, and a dedicated Arbitrum Stylus/Scaffold session.
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Impact & Outcomes: Exceeded KPIs; bridged European mentors with LATAM builders. Participants built & deployed projects, with 4 teams (Seed Vault, Hoomanify, Entropy Wheel, Gota Gota) winning prizes for Arbitrum deployments at the following ETHGlobal hackathon.
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Feedback: Overwhelmingly positive – praised high-quality speakers, interactive IRL format, and accessible teaching (especially Stylus workshop lowering barriers).
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Finances: Budget respected overall; minor shift from branding to cover higher venue costs.
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Future: Plans to expand Urbe Campus in Europe/Italy in 2026, continue supporting alumni on Arbitrum, and deepen ecosystem partnerships.
Posting the content of that document here:
1. Executive Summary
Urbe Campus is an international educational initiative designed to help Web2 developers take their first steps into Web3 through an intensive, hands-on bootcamp combined with guided building sessions. For the Devconnect edition in Buenos Aires, we delivered a full week of activities that included more than 20 hours of workshops, 5 consecutive days of training, and over 70 attendees who participated throughout the week.
Thanks to Arbitrum’s support, this became the first-ever Urbe Campus held in Latin America, allowing us to reach an entirely new community of builders. The funding enabled us to host all workshops free of charge, support mentors, and guide participants through hands-on sessions that resulted in multiple on-chain projects, including four winning teams from the final hackathon.
Arbitrum’s contribution directly improved the accessibility, scale, and educational quality of this edition, helping new builders discover and experiment with Ethereum and L2 ecosystems, including first deployments, contract interactions, and developer tooling. Moreover, thanks to Arbitrum’s coordination, we partnered with other aligned communities such as Dev3Pack and Web3Compass, allowing us to reach and engage an even broader group of builders and amplify the impact of the Campus across multiple ecosystems.
2. Performance Against KPIs
The Campus achieved important goals. Participation exceeded expectations with more than 70 registered attendees, and the full 20-hour curriculum was delivered across five days of workshops.
A significant number of participants continued into project building during the hackathon preparation days. Four projects were developed and deployed on Arbitrum during the ETHGlobal hackathon that followed the Campus and has been awarded with a $2k bounties. In addition to these Arbitrum-based submissions, several more projects were created by students during the hackathon.
3. Qualitative Impact & Community Feedback
The most meaningful outcome of this edition was the creation of a bridge between European educators and the Latin American developer ecosystem. Many participants expressed that this was their first time receiving hands-on guidance from international mentors, and the interactive format proved particularly engaging.
Student feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Participants emphasized the value of in-person (IRL) workshops, noting their significant impact on fostering relationships among builders and helping them feel less isolated in their work. The majority of attendees went on to participate in ETHGlobal, with many forming teams during the Urbe Campus.
Another common point of praise was the exceptionally high quality of the speakers and their ability to communicate clearly in English. Several students compared the Urbe Campus favorably to other in-person bootcamps, highlighting its superior teaching quality. Speakers, including Sarah Thiam, KevinJones, Solene, Fabriziogianni7, and more, excelled at explaining complex concepts in simple, accessible terms through interactive, practical, and engaging teaching methods.
During the bootcamp, the Scaffold-Stylus team, led by Ivan and Nadai, delivered a highly appreciated workshop on quickly creating and deploying smart contracts using Scaffold-Stylus on Arbitrum Stylus.
Attendees showed strong interest in the topic, and the Arbitrum Stylus team demonstrated impressive expertise. They successfully explained this technically complex technology in a clear and accessible way, even for complete beginners. Student feedback consistently highlighted how Scaffold-Stylus dramatically lowers the entry barrier to building on Arbitrum Stylus, making the process feel straightforward and approachable.
Social Media Impact
Prior to the event, Urbe.eth published frequent updates introducing the Campus, agenda, speakers, and themes. Page 8 of the final report shows an active campaign of more than ten posts announcing the event and engaging the Devconnect audience.
Here some of the example of the posts published on X by the students:
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During and after the event, real-time updates, photos, and short videos were shared daily, showcasing the workshops and documenting progress. These posts captured strong engagement and helped highlight the presence of Arbitrum within the Campus experience.
A closing completion thread on X will it has also been published: https://x.com/urbeEth/status/1999516010299183128?s=20
4. Financial Summary
The initial budget breakdown was fully respected and followed as planned, in line with the structure shared in our application and internal budget sheet. The allocation of funds toward teaching hours, operational support, coordination, and hackathon incentives remained consistent with the original proposal.
The only meaningful variation from the initial plan was related to the venue cost, which ended up being higher than estimated. To compensate for this increase without altering the overall spending target, we reduced the amount allocated to branding and visual materials.
You can see the budget breakdown here:
https:// docs.google .com/ spreadsheets/d/11GUygE93L-xVS7j19DF34wpj8RRS9hE6tyzabCzMiQY/edit?usp=sharing
5. Future Plans & Ecosystem Alignment
Following the completion of this grant, Urbe Campus will continue expanding across Italy and Europe throughout 2026, bringing hands-on developer education to both emerging and established Ethereum communities. New editions are already in planning around major Ethereum events and in collaboration with local builder ecosystems, allowing us to replicate and scale the Campus format while adapting it to different regional contexts.
Our long-term mission remains unchanged: onboarding the next generation of web3 builders, equipping them with practical engineering skills, and preparing them to build meaningful applications within the Ethereum ecosystem. Each Urbe Campus will continue to emphasize real development workflows, mentorship from active builders, and direct exposure to production-ready tools and best practices.
In alignment with Arbitrum, we plan to actively follow and support builders who choose to continue building on Arbitrum after the Campus. This includes maintaining relationships with alumni, connecting them with ecosystem opportunities, encouraging participation in hackathons, and supporting early experimentation and project iteration on Arbitrum.
This grant played a key role in strengthening our relationships with other builder communities and ecosystem actors (Like Dev3Pack, Web3Compass, BuildGuidl, Mimic, Scaffold-Stylus). Overall, the grant not only supported the execution of this specific edition but also laid the foundation for future collaborations, ecosystem alignment, and sustainable growth of the Urbe Campus initiative.
Appendix: Hackathon Outcomes and Partnerships
The Campus resulted in four winning hackathon teams: Seed Vault, Hoomanify, Entropy Wheel, and Gota Gota, each receiving $500 in prizes. Relevant code repositories were shared on GitHub and ETHGlobal links were provided.
Speakers and contributors included members from Dev3Pack, Web3Compass, Mimic, BuidlGuidl, Unlink, and Gemina Labs, Scaffold-stylus, demonstrating strong multi-community collaboration.
Hello everyone, I had to post the content of the google doc in chunks, the platform didn’t allow me to post the full document. I also had to disable links.
Thank you very much, Fabri