Green Tech We’re going green!
We’re planning to start using renewable energy to power our computers. We’ll be taking advantage of the high levels of sunlight in Nigeria (Average mean temperature of 27.4°C in Otukpo where the school is based) and deploying solar powered computers that our students can code on.
You can support us by donating towards our solar powered computer kits here.
Our solar powered computer kits consists of:
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Students learning web development skills We’ve recently completed another set of weeklong courses. We ran 3 free week long courses on how to program in html, css and javascript over April and May 2022. Unfortunately, we didn’t have as much uptake on these courses as we were hoping due to them being held during term time but we still had a good turnout with 20 students participating across the 3 courses.
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Review Our 10 week course is complete!
Here’s some of the feedback we got:
“It [the hackathon] was AWESOME” “I enjoyed every single thing we did during project” “Actually I love and appreciate all that the organization has organized this far” About the food provided during the course:
“God’s answer to prayer” “I really appreciate the facilitator’s passion to help, my gratitudes are sincerely inexplicable.” “Lol that was exceptional considering the economic situation now plus Am really grateful to the facilitators and am happy about it”
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Hackathon The 10 week bootcamp ended with a bang. Or more precisely an intense 3 day hackathon.
It began on Wednesday morning with pitches of some problems in their local community. The students then self formed into 2 teams of roughly 8 students, picked a challenge each and got coding. The task was to come up with an idea to solve the problem, create a prototype then present and demo their prototype in front of a panel of judges.
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Bonsai Website Our students took their 6 weeks of web development skills knowledge and created an e-commerce website selling bonsai trees (of all things).
You can check out their results here:
AFTERNOON SESSION GROUP 2 MORNING SESSION GROUP 1 MORNING SESSION GROUP 3 MORNING SESSION GROUP 2
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The local church in otukpo When I think of Nigeria I think of community. We are part of a community and we contribute to that community. So let me tell you a story about community.
We were having problems with our venue. Then in stepped Pastor John. He was one of a few local dignitaries we invited to see the teaching at the start of the course. He was so impressed that upon hearing we were having venue problems he told us 4 words: “I’ll sort it out” (5 words if you want to be pedantic).
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