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.
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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.
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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.
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2022 is over. Another year, another infographic!
Our solar powered computers is the achievement we are most proud of this year. It solves a critical issue we have around courses being interrupted due to lack of power and it is great for the environment!
Thank you all for your support and donations. We couldn’t do this without you!
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Our trustees performed our first (self-funded) monitoring trip to Nigeria and had the pleasure of meeting Daniel the teacher from Otukpo Tech Academy in Abuja. We reflected on the past year and made plans for 2023.
Unfortunately we were unable to visit Otukpo and see the school due to security advice from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.
We had a great time in Nigeria, and an amazingly warm welcome.
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Graduation Ceremony 8TH SEPTEMBER, 2022 Following the completion of an intense 14-week course, in which the students learnt the basics of C#, advanced topics such as databases (Entity framework & SQL) and webservers (.net web api) the students finally graduated in a ceremony held on 8th September 2022. The students were able to complete the course thanks to the outstanding teaching provided by Daniel, a teacher employed through our Nigerian entity (The Otukpo Tech Academy).
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