A non-governmental organization, Wi- STEM Africa in collaboration with odyssey foundation has trained 30 young girls from different Schools in Abuja in coding and Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education targeting 1000 in Nigeria.
The National coordinator, Wi- STEM Africa, Dr. Felicia Agubata while speaking with newsmen at the workshop titled: Empowering Young Innovators; Building a Sustainable Future with Makecode stated that the training aims at teaching the girls on how to use coding to boost agriculture production and other social science materials.
Agubata explained that the training also help to empower young ones, ignite passion for stem education among the girls while increasing the awareness and enthusiasm for stem discipline, whilst providing essential resources and mentorship to cultivate the next generation of female stem leaders and building confidence fostering team work and making leaning a fun.
“That’s why we are empowering them with a coding tool and it’s called Makecode using circuit and orange to read code and generate sound for sustainable development in social science.
“We are targeting girls working with two junior secondary school in Abuja, we are doing this all over Nigeria, every quarter we go to different geopolitical zones and in a year we work with 1000 girls.”
In her remarks, the Abuja coordinator, Wi-STEM and founder odyssey foundation Engr .Stella Uzo-chukwu Dennis on her part stated that the training aims at encouraging young girls to become engineers hence organising experiment on how electricity and coding activities work, with demonstration that human body is also a conductor for electricity.
Engr. Dennis explained that coding can also help to solve intricacies in agricultural mechanism such as knowing timing for good planting on farmland, soil and water gauge and a host of others which if applied will increase food production, ensure food security and appropriate timing for planting.
A beneficiary of the training, Sumisola Olugbaye, a student of Government secondary school Gwarimpa, commended the organizers and promised to implement Makecode technique in her path to learning more in STEM education.
