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

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Milestone 4 Report - The Arbitrum University Event 3.0 at the University of Port Harcourt - UNIPORT, Nigeria

Here’s a report of the web3 Warri @Arbitrum University event that held yesterday July 16, 2025 at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.

The event originally scheduled for Tuesday July 15, 2025 was moved to Wednesday July 16, 2025 due to the sudden demise of the former president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari. This led to a declaration by the government of Nigeria for Tuesday, 15 July, 2025 as a Public Holiday In Honour Of Late Former President Muhammadu Buhari.

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

The Event had 189 people in attendance, including representatives from the Dean of the Faculty of Computing, the Head of the Department of Computer Science, Senior Lecturers from the Faculty of Sciences, and a strong representation of faculty members from the University of Port Harcourt.

Pre-Event Campaigns

To hit the goal we set out for ourselves - a minimum of 150 attendees and a maximum of 200 attendees, we had to strategically run an intensive onsite publicity camoaign. Printing and distrubiting 1,500 phyiscal fliers in classrooms, including a special onsite campaign at one of the University of Port Harcourt fellowship.

Courtesy calls to the institution’s management and faculty members

We also made courtesy calls to some management members of the institution including but not limited to:

• The Dean of Student Affairs, University of Port Harcourt.
• The Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Port Harcourt
• The Dean of the Faculty of Computing, University of Port Harcourt
• The Head of the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing, University of Port Harcourt

Welcome and tour by the President of the Faculty of Science Student Association

On the day before the event, the web3 Warri team was received by the President of the Nigerian Association of Science Students, University of Port Harcourt Chapter.

He took the team on a tour of the University and shared the excitement of the students about the events.

Attendance

We recorded 189 attendance at the event.

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

Professors (and staff) of the University of Port Harcourt at the Event

We had a strong representation of the academic members and non-academic members of the university honoring our invitation and joining us for the event.

Some of the school’s staff attendees included:

1. The Dean of the Faculty of Computing, ably represented by Dr. H. Okparaji.
2. The Head of the Department of Computer Science, ably represented by Dr V. Onyinyechi.
3. Dr P.O. Onyagbodor, of the Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, AEB
4. Dr Bunmi O., Health Department, University of Port Harcourt.
5. Mr Stephen Success, Information and Communication Technology, University of Port Harcourt.

Sessions covered

Being our first event at UNIPORT, we tailored 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
8. A speaker session on “what is a contract from the legal perspective” by the President of the Law Students Association, University of Port Harcourt.
9. Announcing of the upcoming hacker house - post Arbitrum University events.

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

References

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 the summary of the web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event.

Summary of the web3 Warri Arbitrum University Event 2025 at the University of Port Harcourt Nigeria

Next Stop

By this report, we have gone mid way into the milestones set out for this project. We have also reached a total of 586 people across three institutions so far.

Our next institution is the Petroleum Training Insistute - PTI, Warri, Delta State.