Women's Technology Empowerment Centre – W.TEC

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W.TEC Inaugurates MentorHER 2020 – 2021

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (WTEC) recently held the inauguration for her MentorHER 2020 – 2021 pogramme which is slated for 6 months is featuring and Mentees majorly from across Nigeria and Mentors from all over world. W.TEC’s MentorHER Programme is aimed at supporting young women studying STEM courses at the tertiary level, sharing important technical …

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W.TEC Selected as WSIS 2020 Champion

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] W.TEC is pleased to have been selected as a 2020 WSIS Champion in Category 3 (Access to Information and Knowledge). The WSIS Prizes contest was developed in response to requests from the WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society) stakeholders to create an effective mechanism to evaluate projects and activities that leverage the power …

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Meet Our New Girls Advisory Council

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The W.TEC Girls Advisory Council comprises of a group of select girls (alumnae of W.TEC programmes) nominated to work as an advisory group to partner with W.TEC staff members on activities ranging from programme development to research and publicity. The GAC members will also have the opportunity to make recommendations to and share their …

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Covid transforming offline into online – W.TEC DGY Project

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]  Digital Generation Youth project consortium members from Nigeria, South Africa, Lithuania and The Netherlands gathered for an open online webinar. This time the concept of maker space was at the core of this webinar. Maker Spaces from Lithuania and Nigeria shared their tips and tricks on how to motivate children and young people to go hands-on and …

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Digital Open Badges & W.TEC Programmes

 In 2019, W.TEC joined the Digital Generation Youth (DGY) project, which is aimed at developing new content, methods and activities to improve the quality of youth non-formal learning programmes. Through this project, organisations that work with young people in Nigeria, South Africa, Lithuania and the Netherlands will develop competences in delivering non-formal digital literacy and …

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W.TEC Holds Her first Virtual Camp for Girls – She Creates Next Camp

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Press Release Lagos, Nigeria – 10th August, 2020: The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre – W.TEC recently held her first virtual camp tagged She Creates Next. The camp is the 13th edition of the She Creates Camp – a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Maths) summer Camp for secondary school girls. The camp was …

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The Return of W.TEC Academy

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The W.TEC Academy makes a big comeback with a series of new online classes. W.TEC Academy is an afterschool computer club for girls currently held in select secondary schools across Kwara and Ogun States. The programme, sponsored by Oracle had 500 girls enrolled for its weekly classes before the outbreak of the pandemic. The …

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Our Executive Director – Mrs Oreoluwa Somolu Lesi shared her presentation on Leveraging STEM for Development in Lagos State at a recently held virtual event hosted by Lagos State Science Research and Innovation Council (LASRIC). She was panelist on the virtual event alongside other highly esteemed intellectuals like Prof. Peter Okebukola, Peter Bamkole of Pan …

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