Anambra Secondary School Students Partake in a Technologically Oriented Competition.(Photos)

Anambra Secondary School Students Partake in a Technologically Oriented Competition.(Photos)

By Nancy Chidebe

Technovation’s Regional pitching competitions (Senior Category) for Girls took place on 31st May at Onitsha city.

You May also recall that the “Golden Girls” who clinched the gold while representing Nigeria at Silicon Valley in this same Competition were students from a school located in Onitsha , with the founder of Edufun Tecknik STEM centre , Mrs Onwuamaegbu Ugwu being their trainer .

The impressive outing featured more than 13 secondary schools from some states in South-Eastern Nigeria and 16 teams who took time to pitch their solution-oriented ideas, not minding their ages.

The ideas spanned around technologically-based solutions to the varied societal problems in their societies.

At the end of the Competition, Two teams came out tops and also won a cash prize.

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TEAM BLESSED, who Pitched for a Community Database Indicator App, an App that enables the community to be represented Geographically and Direction-wise, clinched the first position, while the Second position went to TEAM PIONEERS who pitched for a SMART VOTE app, an APP that ensures a secure and transparent voting system.

Speaking to Anaedoonline.com, Nonso Stanley Anene, the State Coordinator of YALI Anambra said “such initiative as this is a welcome development as it promotes problem-solving civic participation of young persons – especially the girls.”

“Truly, Nigeria and Africa are filled with many “golden girls” waiting to be harnessed and these are Golden Girls being nurtured”.

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Mrs Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu is a Mandela Washington Fellow with the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), an Obama Foundation Fellow, and is still a very active member of YALI Anambra Network.