Placed 3rd at the Tharaka University Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon, my first competition
When
- Feb 2026
Where
- Tharaka University
Role
- Team member (ISACA Tharaka University team)



- Situation: A two-day Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon at Tharaka University (19–20 Feb 2026), themed "Innovation for a Secure and Intelligent World". Teams came from several universities, including Machakos, Karatina, Murang'a University of Technology and MUST. The ISACA Tharaka University Student Group entered two teams.
- What I did: Competed in my first hackathon as part of an ISACA team. Our project tackled detecting AI-generated assignments, identifying deepfake content and flagging email spoofing attacks.
- Result: Placed 3rd overall (second runners-up).
AI-generated content detectionemail spoofing detection