Women's Technology Empowerment Centre – W.TEC
Back To SchooL: W.TEC Academy It’s back to school season and the Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) is also ready to resume classes for W. TEC Academy, an ICT support programme for secondary school girls. This term, the Academy would be taking place across the country in over 15 secondary schools based in Lagos and …
More About W.TEC’s DGY Programme For the last year and a half, W.TEC has been working as part of the Digital Generation Youth project.This is a 2-year project aimed at developing new content, methods and activities to improve the quality of youth non-formal learning programmes. A key aspect of this project is the use of badges …
Press Release: Friday, September 10th 2021 – Lagos, Nigeria. The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) in collaboration with Aspire Coronation Trust (ACT) Foundation, is proud to announce the launch of ‘’SHE CAN WITH ICT’’ Programme. The Sustaining Her Enterprise Career and Network (SHE CAN WITH ICT), is a W.TEC Initiative designed to improve the …
W.TEC Alumnae Stories: Emmanuella Omonigho Ogbeide-Okoh Omonighbo is an alumnae of W.TEC’s Technology Camp for Girls now called SheCreates Camp, she found the camp so inspiring she and impactful she was able to design and build a website for her mum’s business. Fast – forward to today she using technology in a big way to …
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MORE ABOUT W.TEC’S MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME BY MARYAM ABDUSALAM Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is the key driving force in today’s economic development. The Future success of every nation depends on their scientific and technological capabilities. In today’s world, the basic knowledge of STEM is now among the generic skills for survival in every fast …
MakerHER-Space Expands to Northern Nigeria Lesley Tarabina our Curiculum Development Officer was recently in Abuja to facilitate our train the trainer TOT workshop for instructors of the programme in Northern-Nigeria which is part of the next expansion phase of the programme. Lesley pens down for us how the programme progressed. The Makeher Space training of …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] W.TEC’s 13th Anniversary Message In 2008, W.TEC opened its doors and committed to a journey of raising the next generation of women technology creators, entrepreneurs and leaders. Our programmes have encompassed intensive technology camps for girls, after-school technology clubs situated in secondary schools, technology workshops for female entrepreneurs, mentorship for female STEM undergraduates and …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Children’s Development Centre (CDC) in Lagos and the Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) has commenced their special partnership programme – Inclusive Technology for All (IT4All) for the 2021 calendar year. The programme is an ICT inclusion scheme tailored for young people with developmental disabilities and special needs, such as Autism and Down’s syndrome. …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The W.TEC after school programme girls (W.TEC Academy) in Kwara State has commenced classes for the 2021 session. The programme is held in public secondary schools at Offa and Ilorin in Kwara State. The intervention initiative for girls which has enrolled 328 students from 13 schools across the state is sponsored by Oracle. The …
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Women’s Technology Empowerment Center (W.TEC) celebrated the International Women’s Day (IWD) with a virtual panelist session in collaboration with United Nations Information Centres (UNIC), Lagos on March 8, 2021 by 12pm. The virtual event which was held on zoom was flagged off with the International Women’s Day (IWD) address of UN Secretary General, …
