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| L – R: Specialist, Products and Services Division, Etisalat Nigeria, Doubrapade Koroye; Associate Professor of Physics and STEM Education, St. Catherine University, Minnesota, Dr. Kaye Smith; Founder, WAAW Foundation, Dr. Unoma Okorafor; Team Lead of Yellow Team and student of Airforce Secondary School, Adesola Adegeye, and STEM Camp Director, WAAW Foundation, Frances Van Sloun, at the WAAW Foundation Award Ceremony for science and technology project. |
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Doubrapade Koroye of Etisalat; Founder, WAAW Foundation, Dr. Unoma Okorafor; Team Lead of Blue Team and student of Princeton College, Joy Olufemi, and STEM Camp Director, WAAW Foundation, Frances Van Sloun, at the WAAW Foundation Award Ceremony for science and technology project .
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Etisalat Nigeria supported the Working to Advance STEM
Education for African Women (WAAW) Foundation on the occasion of its 2013
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Camp for 30 high school
girls aged between 13 and 17 years.
Education for African Women (WAAW) Foundation on the occasion of its 2013
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Camp for 30 high school
girls aged between 13 and 17 years.
Titled ‘Robotics and Renewable Energy for Africa’, the
workshop which took place on Aug. 03, at the Laureates College, Lagos, was facilitated by some Nigerian and American
women, and it allowed the girls to experience hands-on activities, tutorials
and experiments.
workshop which took place on Aug. 03, at the Laureates College, Lagos, was facilitated by some Nigerian and American
women, and it allowed the girls to experience hands-on activities, tutorials
and experiments.
The founder of WAAW Foundation, Dr. Unoma Okorafor,
said the learning objective of the STEM camp was to ensure that girls thought
of science and technology as tools that could help them solve real problems in
their communities.
said the learning objective of the STEM camp was to ensure that girls thought
of science and technology as tools that could help them solve real problems in
their communities.
“The focus is
to encourage our girls to look around and use locally available materials for
innovation”, she said.
to encourage our girls to look around and use locally available materials for
innovation”, she said.
The facilitators included a special education teacher
from Honors Academy School in Texas, Ebele Agu; Associate Professor of Physics
and STEM Education at St. Catherine University in Minnesota, Dr. Kaye Smith and
Mechanical Engineer from St. Thomas University in Minnesota, Frances Van Sloun.
from Honors Academy School in Texas, Ebele Agu; Associate Professor of Physics
and STEM Education at St. Catherine University in Minnesota, Dr. Kaye Smith and
Mechanical Engineer from St. Thomas University in Minnesota, Frances Van Sloun.
The girls were selected from Airforce
Secondary School, Gbaja Girls’ High School, Clegg Girls’ High School, Top Grade
Secondary School, Bolade Senior Grammar School, Laureates College and Bosgram
College.
Secondary School, Gbaja Girls’ High School, Clegg Girls’ High School, Top Grade
Secondary School, Bolade Senior Grammar School, Laureates College and Bosgram
College.
They developed and presented
light-sensor robots to solve green energy challenges such as trash sorting,
water purification systems, and renewable energy systems; including solar cars
and windmill systems.
light-sensor robots to solve green energy challenges such as trash sorting,
water purification systems, and renewable energy systems; including solar cars
and windmill systems.
Head, Data & Mobile Internet
at Etisalat Nigeria, Okung Ebiefie says the company believes in grooming young
people to understand that they can be innovative solution providers when they
hone their skills.
at Etisalat Nigeria, Okung Ebiefie says the company believes in grooming young
people to understand that they can be innovative solution providers when they
hone their skills.
Etisalat
presented Easyblaze modems to winners at the Awards Ceremony.
presented Easyblaze modems to winners at the Awards Ceremony.
