#Arduino Community Guatemala

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We are more than just an enthusiasts group.

Hi, my name is Oscar Leche and I am the co-founder of the Arduino Community in Guatemala. I managed to meet most of you guys in events (like the Makers Faire NYC) or in diverse activities or cities i visited.

I founded this community in 2012 as an effort to get in touch with technologists and hobbyists in Guatemala who were interested in Open Hardware, the makers movement and developing new technology.

Technology for a broken country

One of the main reasons why i started working in the community was because i’ve seen how for the last 18 years there has been so much talent wasted, as there is not an investment, innovation and entrepreneurship culture. We are working hard in changing this on the technology side.

We have been working by doing workshops, conferences, contests and meetups so people can feel supported, empowered and challenged in achieving higher levels of

In social media we have gain a native outreach of more than 1700 people where more than 300 are active members sharing ideas, projects and guides to the community.

We organized and took part in 16 major technology activities around the country. Such as workshops, conferences and contests.

By our digital outreach, we have gain the attention of more than the 75% of the country territory; where we have managed to get together groups and people.

Our Vision

We believe that the new technologies can be created in the country by its own citizens.

We also believe that the country can become as a reference point for technology in the region.

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The national robotics competition had an Arduino Category. In this event assisted more than 1000 students from around 50 schools

IoT workshop with University students from Chiquimula, eastern part of the country.

First Shown and Learn, activity for displaying creations and share knowledge

For our create your shield workshop, people with no knowledge in electronics learned how to build circuits.

For our Ardulete (Arduino powered kites) Challenge, we recevied multiple ideas for using kites with sensors

Huellitas de Proposito

Meiling is an engineer from the north east region of Guatemala, Huehuetenango. There she has been working with her community for the last year.

Huellitas de proposito helps girls that have been victims of abuse and violence in workshops for teaching them electronics, hardware and programming

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CREA Engine

During 2015 we took an effort into IoT. With CREA, we started the development of an IoT platform for local entrepreneurship as a free/low cost alternative to current platforms.

This year we are working in new improvements as part of this year goals.

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Further Steps

This year we are working in more activities in order to empower guatemalans into the maker movement and the hardware innovation

  • We have defined 14 different activities for this semester. 9 conferences and 5 workshops.
  • We will start a webminars series in order to leave all the knowledge reachable online
  • Will complete the development of our websice Arduinogt.com
  • We are working in becoming a proper association. The Guatemalan Open Hardware Association (AGHA)

Get in touch

We really want to keep in touch with you. We want to learn from experiences and are always willing to share with you ideas and project Email us: info@arduinogt.com

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