The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) recently partnered with South Africa-based Mzansi Web3 to hold the learning institution’s first hackathon. About 175 students from different faculties and stages of their courses registered to participate in the Dec. 8 and 9 hackathon. Taurayi Rupere, the chairman of the institution’s computer science department, told Bitcoin.com News that the hackathon’s goal is to produce “open-minded” developers who “think outside the box.” While organizers of the two-day event were initially targeting students from the computer science faculty, Rupere said the excitement sparked by the hackathon eventually forced his department to extend the invitation to students from other fields.