KIT’s “Octofin Project” Wins Second Place at UnipreneurCamp 2025

This year, the KIT team Synergy impressed judges with their innovative project call "Octofin", securing second place and winning a prize of 6,000,000 riels from the UnipreneurCamp 2025 program. The Octofin competes with the 300 students from cluster 4 of the various universities across Cambodia.

Otofin Project is an interactive, game-based simulation that teaches financial literacy to university students. It allows players to experience real-world scenarios such as budgeting, investing, and managing loans in a fun and risk-free environment through financial challenges. Students can gain practical money management skills and develop the confidence to apply them in real life. The interactive approach also helps improve engagement, retention, and financial decision-making skills. And by learning through active participation, students can gain practical money management skills and improve engagement and retention, which help build financial confidence that they can apply in real life.

The motivation behind Octofin Project came from the recognition of a pressing challenge, one that many universities quietly wrestle with yet seldom address head-on: the risk of graduates stepping into the real world without solid, practical financial literacy. Without these skills, young professionals can face personal financial instability, making it harder to thrive both in their careers and in life. This gap doesn’t just affect individual futures; it reflects on the institution itself. A lack of preparedness in such a fundamental area can cast doubt on a university’s commitment to equipping students with essential life skills, ultimately impacting student satisfaction, alumni success, and even the institution’s long-term

reputation.

UnipreneurCamp is a 3-day program from 9th to 11th August 2025, and the students from KIT took part in UnipreneurCamp, Cluster 4, a program hosted by Khmer Enterprise that brought together around 300 students from various universities across Cambodia. The program is a facilitated hackathon under the Unipreneur Program Season 3. It is designed to help students and first-time entrepreneurs form strong founding teams, identify meaningful startup problems, and develop problem-solution fits that could grow into real businesses.

After joining the UnipreneurCamp, the outstanding team of Octofin will be participating in the next step, which is the Unipreneur Sprint that focuses on customer discovery, MVP validation, and investor pitch preparation, and the National Challenge 2025, which would be the final pitches of mentorship and judging for cash prizes. For the next stage of the competition, KIT extends its best wishes to the Synergy team, hoping they achieve victory and make the institute proud.