Country of Residence
Kenya
Age
20
Project title
CampusHive
Project Summary: Describe your project in one sentence
CampusHive is a one-stop campus platform that brings events, clubs, past papers, study tools, opportunities and anonymous peer support into one simple place, so every student can find what they need and never feel lost or alone.
Website URL(s) or social media handles.
https://campushive-jkuat.netlify.app/#home
Project Category
My project is an existing project that I started
Project Stage
Growth (We’ve moved past the very first activities and are beginning to have consistent weekly or monthly impact)
Founding Story: What was the spark that led you to start your project? What was the "Aha!" moment that led you to get started and see the potential for this to succeed?
CampusHive began with a simple awareness: on any campus, almost everything a student needs already exists, but it is scattered across group chats, shared folders and buried notices, so past papers, events, opportunities and support are hard to find. I realised the problem was not a lack of resources but a lack of one place to find them, and that this scattering leaves many students feeling lost and alone when they need help most. So I built CampusHive, a single hub for events and clubs, a study corner with past papers, unit tracking and a GPA calculator, and a safe space for peer support. I believed it could succeed because students tested it on their phones and laptops and told me what they needed, like easier past-paper search, which I then built. With their feedback and the guidance of the Millennium Fellowship, that awareness became a platform: everything on campus, in one hive.
The Problem: What problem are you helping to solve? Why does it matter to you and your community?
Campus life runs on scattered information: event posters sit in one group chat, past papers in someone’s shared folder, club notices get buried under hundreds of messages, and internship and hostel leads travel by word of mouth, so students who are not in the right place at the right time simply miss out. A concert goes unnoticed, a deadline passes, and a revision paper that exists somewhere cannot be found the night before an exam. The cost goes beyond inconvenience, because when information is hard to find, help is even harder to find, and many students carry academic pressure, money stress or homesickness quietly with no comfortable place to reach out. Those who are new, shy or off-campus are affected most, which makes the gap unfair as well as inefficient. This matters to me because I live it as a student, and I believe access to resources and support should never depend on who you know or which group chat you are in. CampusHive brings events, study resources, opportunities and peer support into one simple place, so every student can find what they need and know they are not alone.
Your Solution: How are you solving this problem? Share your specific solution.
CampusHive is a web platform that works on phones and laptops and brings everyday campus life into one place, organised around three core areas. In Events and Clubs, students see concerts, sports, parties and club activities in a single filterable feed, where they can tap “I’m going”, add an event to their calendar, share it to a group chat, and pay for tickets with mobile money. In the Study Corner, they choose their units for the semester, open past papers organised by year and course, get class and exam alerts, and use a built-in GPA calculator, so a revision paper is a few taps away instead of a hunt through group chats. In Peer Support, they can join a peer circle and post anonymously about exams, homesickness or money stress, send suggestions to student leaders through an anonymous box, browse wellbeing resources, and use a lost and found. Around these sit an internships board with deadline tracking, a student marketplace for textbooks and gear, a hostel finder, and a campus map with shuttle times. Everything is built to be easy to use: one search bar, Google sign-in with roles for students and administrators, and a Lite mode that keeps the site fast on slow connections. In practice, a student opens one link and sees what is happening this week, what is due, and where to go when things feel heavy. The platform is already live, and students who tested it on phones and laptops said it was simple, smooth to navigate and had everything in one place. Their feedback shapes what we build next; for example, requests for easier past-paper search led directly to search and filters.
Impact: How has your project created impact / made a difference so far? Or, if at an early stage, what will impact look like?
CampusHive is at an early stage, but it is already making a difference: the platform is live and has reached 300 students, who tested it on their phones and laptops. They described it as simple, easy to navigate and the first place where everything is in one place. Their input has already shaped the product, as requests for easier past-paper search led directly to search and filters. Going forward, impact will look like students spending less time hunting for information and more time using it: finding a revision paper in a few taps, never missing an event or internship deadline, and having a safe, anonymous place to reach out when they are struggling. I expect it to work because it solves a problem students already feel every day, it lives on the phones they already carry, and it is built around their feedback at every step. Our next goals are to grow from 300 early users to a full campus rollout, track how many students use it each week, and partner with student leaders and clubs so announcements, events and support all reach students in one place. If it works here, the same model can be adopted by any campus facing scattered information.
Your Innovation: What is different about your project compared to other programs or solutions already out there? How is your project new or innovative?
Most campuses try to solve this problem in pieces: a WhatsApp or Telegram group for each class and club, a notice board for events, a university portal for grades and timetables, and a separate counselling office for wellbeing. Each piece works on its own, but none of them talk to each other, so students still have to hunt across many places. CampusHive is different because it treats campus life as one connected experience instead of separate problems. A single web platform puts events and clubs, past papers and study tools, internships, a marketplace, a hostel finder, a campus map, and anonymous peer support in the same place, so a student can check what is on this week, find a revision paper and reach out for support without switching apps. The most distinctive part is pairing academic and social tools with a safe, anonymous peer space. Most campus tools ignore wellbeing, and most wellbeing services sit apart from daily student life, so CampusHive places support where students already go every day, which lowers the barrier to asking for help. It is also designed around how students actually use technology. It runs in the browser with no download, works on phones and laptops, and includes a Lite mode for slow connections. Because it is built by a student, tested with hundreds of students, and improved from their feedback, each feature answers a real need, such as the search and filters added after students asked for easier past-paper access. Finally, the model is not tied to one institution. Any campus can adopt it, with administrators and student leaders posting events and announcements so information reaches students in one reliable place.
How many people are on your team?
2
Your team: What role(s) do your team members play? How do you share leadership with them?
I lead CampusHive as founder, handling the product, design and development. I don’t work alone: the students who tested the platform act as an informal advisory group whose feedback sets what we build next, and the Millennium Fellowship provides mentorship and guidance. As we grow, I want to add student leaders as campus ambassadors, plus a designer and a developer, so ownership is shared and every campus has its own champion.
What’s Next: What are the next steps you plan to take to grow or strengthen your project over the next year? If your project is still in the idea stage, describe the steps you will take over the next three months to launch or begin developing it.
Over the next year, my priority is to move CampusHive from 300 early users to a full campus rollout. In the first three months, I will keep improving the platform from student feedback, starting with stronger search and filters for past papers, and add more courses and resources so the Study Corner is genuinely useful for every faculty. At the same time, I will partner with student leaders, clubs and campus administrators so they can post events and announcements directly, which keeps the content fresh and gives students a reason to check the platform every day. Over the following months, I will launch ticketing through mobile money, grow the internships board and marketplace, and train a small group of student ambassadors to onboard their peers and moderate the peer support space so it stays safe and kind. I will also track simple numbers, such as weekly active users, events posted and papers accessed, so I can see what is working and report real results. Once the model is proven on one campus, I want to adapt it for other campuses, with each one managed by its own student team, so the platform grows through shared leadership instead of depending on one person. My goal is simple: every student I reach should find what they need in one place and know they are not alone.
How do you encourage other people to join your project or learn about the problem you’re working on? If you have a new idea, tell us how you will do this in the future.
I encourage people to join by making it easy to take part and showing them that their input matters. So far, 300 students have engaged with CampusHive by testing it on their phones and laptops and sharing honest feedback, which has directly shaped the product, such as the search and filters added after requests for easier past-paper access. Telling students what changed because of their feedback is the strongest invitation I have, because it shows their voice counts. To help more people understand the problem, I created a short explainer video that shows the daily frustration of scattered information and how one hub fixes it, and I share the live link so anyone can try it in seconds. Going forward, I will recruit student leaders and club officials as campus ambassadors who post events, onboard classmates and help moderate the peer support space, giving them real ownership instead of just a user account. I will also run simple feedback sessions and short surveys, invite students to contribute past papers and resources, and use word of mouth through clubs, class groups and student events. Over time, I want every student who benefits from CampusHive to have an easy way to give back, whether by sharing a resource, hosting an event or supporting a peer.
