Indigenous Fintech and human capital technology company, SystemSpecs, is offering IT training to secondary students to help prepare their minds for their future careers.
The fully funded camp training, which started August 12, 2019, is conceived to equip participants with digital skills in an accelerated and practical learning environment that aims to improve access to technology education in Nigeria.
The two-week Remita Summer Coding Camp, taking place in both Lagos and Abuja, is going to empower participants in various aspects of computer programming such as the fundamentals of the web, animation, robotics, and game design, among others.
According to the organisers, the use of various tools and a curriculum that helps participants have an accelerated understanding of the concepts being taught opens their minds to the limitless technology possibilities and actively prepares them for the innovations of the future.
“At SystemSpecs, we recognise the rising impact of technology in our world today and the even more significant place it would occupy in future. We also are aware of the importance of building ICT capacity across the technology ecosystem, not only for the present but for the future,” Deremi Atanda, executive director, SystemSpecs, said.
With each participants picked from the huge numbers that applied to represent different secondary school, the programme offers 20 openings for the inaugural edition. Parents, students, teachers or friends were given till August 7, 2019, to apply for the two-week IT training camp by submitting their details on the programme’s application site and selected participants were announced and contacted on August 9, 2019.
Commenting, Lawal Olajide, a parent of Lawal Temitope, one of the participants, said he saw the entry online and applied on behave of his daughter and few days later, “we got a mail that she has been selected. For long we have been looking for such opportunity that can help prepare our children to be competitive in the technology industry, so I am grateful to SystemSpecs.”
According to Atanda, through the Remita Summer Coding Camp, SystemSpecs continues to invest in the next big technology innovators from Africa to the rest of the world as it has done in the past; working with Lagos State on Code Lagos, and other partners on the Girls-in-ICT initiative, among many others.
“We know that technology is advancing at a very rapid pace, and every nation needs to be positioned today in way that they can provide solution tomorrow, and so we are equipping the young ones with IT skills that can help them make those decisions,” the CSR coordinator for SystemSpecs said.
Oduse Ilerioluwa, a 15-year-old student of Queens’ College, Yaba, who is also a participant, said she wants to become an Aerobotics engineer, “so this training is a good foundation for me. So far I have learnt how to code, and I realised I have to write the code for every step of any project I want to do.”
In his comment, Adgun Wareez, one of the participants, said through the programme, “I learnt how to design games and the training has been fun and interesting.”
