The trio of Ayobami Kalesanwo and Oluwaferanmi Muraina, both 500-level Electrical Engineering students as well as Oluwapelumi Kolade, 500-level Civil Engineering student from the College of Engineering (COLENG), Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) have won a coveted prize for Nigeria at the recently concluded African Unilever Idea Competition held in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The FUNAAB students christened “Team Innovatus” represented Nigeria alongside “Team Adobe” from the University of Ibadan and competed against students of nine other African universities, including South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe among others at the final event, but Team Innovatus from Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) emerged First Runner-Up to Team Sparkle from South Africa, qualifying them to represent Nigeria alongside South Africa at global finals in London later this year.
According to Emi Alawode, Head, Directorate of Public Relations, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), the
University’s Team Innovatus was selected out of the over 2,000 entries to convert a written essay into a 40-second video advertisement at the African Unilever Idea Competition held in Johannesburg, South Africa.
She added, “The outstanding students were subsequently selected to be part of the 36 students from universities all over Nigeria to attend a boot camp session in Lagos. The 36 students comprise of 12 groups of three team members, each.”
The boot camp ran for a period of four days from August 23 to 26, last year and they were trained in marketing and sales techniques. Team Innovatus came out successful and proceeded to the semi-final round of six teams.
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