e-Business Life Communication Limited and New Horizons

5/2/2018

Africa, Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria

20 participants

As part of the events preceding the 2018 International Girls in ICT Day celebration, eBusiness Life Communication, publishers of eBusiness Life Magazine, in partnership with foremost IT training institute in Nigeria, New Horizons, hosted participating students to a one-day free training on Coding, which was followed by a competition among the students.

The training was a hands-on, practical tutoring on the basics in Scratch, a segment of Coding. The instructor, a seasoned ICT lecturer, took the students through the basic principles of creating an active environment using tools from the relevant App.

The competition was meant to select the best schools after the training and award them commendation plaques and prizes.

Two Senior Secondary School 1 (SS1, an equivalent of Grade 10) students each from 9 schools participated in the training/Competition. The Schools were chosen randomly from both private and public schools within Lagos State and environ. The schools include Wahab Folawiyo Senior High School; Baptist Girls Academy; Victoria Island Senior Secondary School; Kuramo Senior College and Faith Academy, Canaanland. Others are Peaklane College; Grace High School; Lagoon Secondary School and Reagan Memorial Baptist College.

At the end of the competition, Grace High School (a private school) came tops, while Victoria Island Senior Secondary School (a public school) and Peaklane College (private school) came second and third respectively.

The six (6) students that represented the three (3) winning schools received their gifts on the D-Day of the event.

The students were also treated to refreshments and a pep talk on the need to equip themselves on relevant ICT skills by the convener of the event, Mrs Ufuoma Emuophedaro.

According to some of the accompanying teachers from the schools, the training exercise has further exposed the students on some of the skills they need as they choose a carrier in ICT.

 The training/competition was held on Wednesday, May 2, 2018, in the training room of New Horizons institute, fully equipped with ICT training infrastructure.