Alumni Meetup

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Alumni Meetup On 30th December 2023, 13 of our alumni gathered in our training venue (kindly donated by a local businessman) to catchup. The teachers Michael and Daniel were also in attendance. It was encouraging to hear 8 of them have gone on to further education and the knowledge they’ve learnt with us has been put to good news. Some of their stories: Michael: “I have been working on couple of projects, my first project was a game app, I recently finished an e-commerce website for a client, of recent I’m working on a school management system, I’m also planning on developing a website for my department in school” – 2022 set Patrick: “Since I graduated, I got a system and I’ve been working on so many projects. Read more →

Summer 2023 Graduation

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Summer 2023 Graduation The Graduating students It’s officially the end of Summer (in the UK) and our 2nd batch of students this year graduated today. It was a truly uplifting event celebrating their achievements: The energy, enthusiasm and gratitude of the students is hard to to put into words. The Ceremony was led by Lt. Col Edward Mark (rtd.) and the local pastor who gave speeches about the importance of the skills the students have learnt in a tech driven world. Read more →

Summer 2023 Hackathon

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Summer 2023 Hackathon A website created by one of the teams Hackathon time again. The final hackathon is the culmination point of 14 weeks of training where our students are split into teams of 3 and have to create a fully functional e-commerce website using the skills they have learnt about javascript, html, css, php and sql. A tough challenge made even more harder due to nationwide power outages meaning that they had no power for two of the days. Read more →

Spring 2023 Graduation

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Spring 2023 Graduation The Graduating students Our latest batch of students graduated today. It was a truly uplifting event celebrating their achievements: The energy, enthusiasm and gratitude of the students is hard to to put into words. Daniel annoucing the winner of the best student award Our students got to share their experiences of the course. Some of the quotes from them included “I’m very grateful for opportunity to be part of this free program” “I’m happy to have learnt something profitable to do to help society world and self” “People think that there nothing is nothing good in Otukpo, you have to leave to develop yourself. Read more →

Spring 2023. Mid-course Hackathon

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Spring 2023 Mid Term Hackathon Briefing students on hackathon task Seeing that the projects made by our students were of high quality, we can say that the hackathon was a very successful and productive work. It was evident that our students applied everything they have learnt and applied it well, even more. Some even did much further research than the course level & implemented concepts into their projects which left the tutors stunned, such as being able to display pdfs on their websites. Read more →

Spring Bootcamp 2023. 1st Semster Complete!

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Spring Bootcamp First Semester The first semester of our training kicked off on a warm January morning with a palpable air of excitement from the 10 students that were starting the 12 week course. This was also our most diverse group so far with an amazing 50% of the course being female. The semester was characterized by mainly ups and few downs which made it altogether successful. For the ups we experienced great dedication and commitment by the students as regards the training. Read more →