The Working to advance STEM Education for African women (WAAW) foundation’s She Hacks Africa Coding boot camp is a one month intensive in-person training workshop, where African youths learn software programming and then practice what they have learned in project-based exercises that aim to simulate the every-day work environment and build their self-confidence as community change makers and technology innovators and entrepreneurs. She Hacks Africa is a hands-on coding boot camp that aims to build self-confidence in African youths as change agents and technology innovators in their communities while giving them relevant skills to build technology enterprises.

The STEM Chapter project recruits, trains, equips and facilitates a chapter consisting of 9 – 12 African University students to provide STEM tutoring, computer science training and mentoring to 3 – 5 public secondary schools in their communities. WAAW currently operates 19 STEM chapters in 11 African countries, with over 200 fellows, 75% of our fellows are our African girls that was awarded scholarship through our STEM initiative.

Our STEM initiatives emphasized computer science and programming as well as how Technology will be used to solve energy problems and clean water problems in Africa, using integrated inquiry based learning heavily based to hands on learning experience. During our 2016 STEM camp, there was an in-class project to design a website describing a science experiment which was used to teach the HTML, they were introduced to website designing using “Yola”.  These are some of the sites developed by the girls. Over 40 applications were built and published to the store for users around the world to download them. 

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• Africa

• Youth
• Women

Yes aside from the main headquarters in Nigeria, WAAW currently operates 19 STEM chapters in 11 African countries, with over 200 fellows.

The project is sustainable in that it has an easily replicable model and impacts lives of hundreds in 11 African countries.

Our curriculum is focused on using technology as a tool for “”changing the world”.