Web3 Warri Arbitrum Universities IRL Events 3.0 and Hacker House 2.0 Updates

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Greeting Arbinauts,

Introduction - web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event 3.0

I am excited to share that the web3 Warri will be hosting, for the third time, a series of Arbitrum focused university events - Event 3.0 and are expanding the knowledge and reach of Arbitrum to two new institutions (and states) in Nigeria: the University of Benin, Edo State and the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

I will be using this thread to share updates on behalf of the web3 Warri - a community of (and for) blockchain developers, smart contract developers, builders, technical writers, open-source contributors, and tech enthusiasts interested in building the next generation of the internet through collaborative learning, meetups, workshops, hackathons, and conferences.

In Phases 1 and 2 of the domain allocator program, the web3 Warri hosted a series of Arbitrum university events across three partnering institutions, reaching over 800 students, researchers, and developers.

You can catch up on our past reports and the impacts for phase 1 and phase 2.

The web3 Warri Arbitrum hacker house 2.0

We are also sharing here that we will be hosting the hacker house 2.0 devoted strictly to deep dive technical sessions and building of smart contracts on the Arbitrum chain.

This hacker house 2.0 will build on the gains and high impact we recorded in the last hacker house hosted.

We look forward to sharing the impact and updates with you.

Acknowlegdement

We are most thankful to the Arbitrum DAO and @SEEDGov team ( @JoJo ) for reviewing and approving our proposal.

What next?

Keep an eye on this thread as we will be using it to share updates and reports as we execute each milestone.

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Milestone 01 Update - Pre-event Onsite Campus Campaigns

Executive Summary

We are sharing here this week’s report and updates on the upcoming web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event 3.0 - the pre-event activation, and onsite campaigns across the higher institutions and universities.

We have commenced onsite campaigns across three of the five higher institutions where we will be hosting the Arbitrum University Event.

As mentioned last week, we published the blog post announcing the web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event 3.0. This announcement was also shared on X (formerly Twitter).

Full onsite campus campaigns across three institutions have began and ongoing. These institutions include:

1. The Petroleum Training Institute - PTI, Effurun-Warri, Delta State.
2. The Delta State University - DELSU, Abraka.
3. The University of Benin - UNIBEN, Edo State.

Implementation

Core Team and Volunteers Strategic Meeting and Retreat

The web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event 3.0 expands to two additional institutions (and states in Nigeria) - The University of Benin - UNIBEN - Edo State and the University of Port Harcourt - UNIPORT - Rivers State.

And as part of the general plans towards the success of the event (one of our major KPIs), the web3 Warri team organized a strategic core team and volunteers hybrid (onsite and remote for those in other states) retreat. The retreat was to ensure that we achieve an impactful Arbitrum University event, surpassing our previous records.

We had 20 members of the team join the meeting - 12 onsite and 8 virtual attendees. See the tweet here and here.

Meetings with the partnering institutions.

Also part of the KPI for this milestone was meetings with the partnering institutions.

Onsite Campus Campaign at the University of Benin - UNIBEN, Edo State

We began pre-event onsite campaign at the University of Benin on Monday May 5, 2025.

We made a courtesy call to the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, of the University of Benin, Professor Emmanuel A Ogujor, . Sharing our vision for the web3 Warri and the upcoming Arbitrum University Event with him.

We also shared Arbitrum’s goals for institutional initiatives - bridging the gap between academia and the industry via the Arbitrum University events and the opportunities for students of the institution to become Arbitrum Ambassadors.

In his remarks, he thanked us for bringing Arbitrum to the school and look forward to the Arbitrum University Event.

We also met the with other staff members of the University of Benin, including senior lecturers, Faculty members, and student course advisers.

Next, we began the onsite campaigns within the school, addressing students in their various classrooms, sharing the informational fliers, and finding out from some of the students who agreed to speak on camera about what they think or know about blockchain, web3, and Arbitrum. This was a fun and revealing campaign exercise.

See what some of them think about blockchain in this Video.

A summary video from the ongoing campaign at the University of Benin.

web3 Warri Live In UNIBEN

Onsite Campus Campaign at the Delta State University - DELSU, Abraka, Delta State.

The web3 Warri team was at DELSU to begin the onsite campaign.

Like we did in UNIBEN, we paid courtesy calls to the Dean of the Faculty of Science, Prof. Augustine O., the head of the department of Computer Science, the staff Adviser, and proceeded to campaign on campus.

Campaigns at the Petroleum Training Institute - PTI

We commenced campaigns on April 30, 2025 at the Petroleum Training Institute PTI. We also paid a courtesy call to the Head of the Department of Computer Science.

And began the onsite campaign at the institutions.

Summary

Team members in these institutions - UNIBEN, PTI, DELSU - are currently ongoing with the onsite campaigns.

The other campaigns in the remaining two institutions will commence later as they are currently writing exams. We will be proceeding at the point with the organizing of the first two Arbitrum IRL events - starting with UNIBEN on Friday May 23 and DELSU on June 6, 2025

And as mentioned in our proposal, these campaigns will run simultaneously across schools as we execute the next milestone - hosting the IRL university event.

We will continue to update this milestone until the end of the university’s IRL events.

Acknowlegdement

We are most thankful to the Arbitrum DAO and @SEEDGov team ( @JoJo ) for reviewing and approving our proposal.

What next?

Keep an eye on this thread as we will be using it to share updates and reports as we execute each milestone.

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Milestone 2 Report - The Arbitrum University Event 3.0 at the University of Benin, Nigeria

Here’s a report of the web3 Warri @Arbitrum University event that held on Friday, May 23, 2025 at the University of Benin - UNIBEN, Edo State, Nigeria.

Though our third in the series of IRL Arbitrum-focused universities event, this was our first event at UNIBEN. And by extension, our expansion into the University and bringing the knowledge of Arbitrum to the university and a new state in Nigeria.

The Event had 205 people in attendance, including some professors and faculty members of the university.

Attendance

Amongst some of the goals we set out to achieve at this event and in our proposal was to have a minimum attendance of 150 persons and a max of 200 persons comprising students, researchers, developers, and anyone interested in blockchain technology and Arbitrum.

We also set out to use this event to introduce Arbitrum and bridge the gap between the industry and academia - one of the key goals of the Arbitrum. We are thankful that we had a strong representation from the academic lecturing body at the event.

Not only did we surpass the number of 200 attendees. We had 205 in attendance.

We also had a strong representation of the academic lecturers and professors at the event.

In the run up to hitting this number, we printed and distributing 1000 fliers as part of an intense Arbitrum evangelism for the event across the institution. Including courtesy visits to the Dean of Faculty of Engineering and senior staff members of the institution.

You can see here, here and here, for some of the intense campaigns we ran in the institution.

Professors (and staff) of the University of Benin at the Event

One of the high point (and biggest wins for us and the Arbitrum ecosystem) was the presence of some professors and staff members of the University of Benin.

We had in attendance the following:

• Engr. Professor (Mrs) P. Orukpe. The Director of the Advanced Digital Engineering Centre - ADEC, of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Benin.
• Dr. E. G. Maju-Oyovwikowhe. Associate Professor and Assistant Dean, Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Benin.
• Engr. (Dr.) P.N. Ogbeifun. Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Benin
• And other staff members of the institution.

Sessions covered

We spoke to some of the attendees to know about their expectations and what they hope to learn in attending the event.

Hear some of the responses here.

Some Attendees share their expectations for the web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event at UNIBEN

Being our first event at UNIBEN, we tailored the sessions covered to by the speakers and facilitators at the event:

1. Blockchain technology
2. Ethereum
3. Arbitrum as the leading layer 2 scaling solution.
4. Everything you need to know about Arbitrum
5. Building on Arbitrum as a developer
6. Contributing to Arbitrum and the ecosystem
7. The Arbitrum ambassadors program
8. Announcing of the upcoming hacker house - post Arbitrum University events.

It is also worth noting that we had the most engagement from attendees in this University. They came in their numbers with notes, a curiosity and willingness to learn and ask questions.

And have even requested we come again.

Reference

You can find the link to the official event photos here. And so find some posts like this on our X handle.

You can also find here a 1 minute 15 seconds video of the summary of the web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event.

Thank You Arbitrum from UNIBEN

Acknowlegdement

We are most thankful to Engr (Prof.) E. A Ogujor, the Dean of the Faculty of Engineeing, Professor P. Orukpe, The Director of the Advanced Digital Engineering Centre, of the Faculty of Engineering, and the University of Benin community for making this a successful and eventful Arbitrum event.

Thanks to the Arbitrum DAO and @SEEDGov team ( @JoJo ) for reviewing and approving our proposal.

What Next?

The web3 Warri team will be hosting the second university event at the Delta State University Abraka, Nigeria on June 6, 2025.

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Milestone 3 Report - The Arbitrum University Event 3.0 at the Delta State University - DELSU, Nigeria

Here’s a report of the web3 Warri @Arbitrum University event that held yesterday June 18, 2025 at the Delta State University, DELSU, Nigeria.

The event originally scheduled for Friday June 6, 2025 was postponed as a result of the national public holiday of this year’s Eid-El-Kabir celebrations.

We had an amazing time at the DELSU event sharing and bridging the gap between academia and the industry as we shared the knowledge of Arbitrum with 196 attendees.

And like it was at the University of Benin, we also had some faculty members of the Delta State University in attendance.

Attendance

Amongst some of the goals we set out to achieve at this event and in our proposal was to have a minimum attendance of 150 persons and a maximum of 200 persons comprising students, researchers, developers, and anyone interested in blockchain technology and Arbitrum.

We intentionally set out to use this third edition of the Arbitrum event to reiterate Arbitrum’s commitment to bridging the gap between the industry and academia.

We are thankful that we had a strong representation from the academic lecturing body and students from different disciplines joining us at the event.

What was most striking for us at the event was the recording of a substanital percentage of female representation.

Sessions covered

The sessions covered by the speakers and facilitators at the event:

1. Blockchain technology
2. Ethereum
3. Arbitrum as the leading layer 2 scaling solution.
4. Everything you need to know about Arbitrum
5. Building on Arbitrum as a developer
6. Contributing to Arbitrum and the ecosystem
7. The Arbitrum Ambassadors program by Samuel from the Arbitrum Foundation.
8. Announcing the upcoming hacker house - post Arbitrum University events.

A recurring theme of the Arbitrum University event is the curiosity (they came with their writing materials and questions), and the engagement from the attendees of the institutions. They engaged us like we experienced at the UNIBEN event.

References

A summary of the web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event 3.0 at the Delta State University, DELSU

You can find the link to the official event photos here. And our thank you post on X to DELSU for turning up.

Enjpy this summary video of the event here

Next Stop?

The web3 Warri team will be hosting the third university event at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.