Meet The 5 Nigerian Girls Who Won Gold At The World Technovation Challenge In The US
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- August 13, 2018
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Time and again Nigerians have proven that they are truly talented especially when outside the country and this is the case with the five female students from the Regina Pacies Secondary School, Onitsha who represented Nigeria at the World Technovation Challenge which held in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, USA.
Technovation is a programme that offers girls ages 10-18, around the world the opportunity to learn the programming skills they need to emerge as tech-entrepreneurs and leaders. The challenge is held in two categories the Senior Division and the Junior Division.
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The girls are invited to identify a problem in their communities, and then challenge them to solve them by developing Andriod applications that would address those problems.
115 countries participated in the qualifiers but only 12 teams from all over the world were selected as finalists for the pitch in Silicon Valley.
The Nigerian team, led by Uchenna Onwuamaegbu Ugwu defeated representatives of other technology giants including the USA, Spain, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and China to clinch the gold medal.
The girls, who have now become Africa’s Golden Girls is made up of five brilliant girls include Promise Nnalue, Jessica Osita, Nwabuaku Ossai, Adaeze Onuigbo and Vivian Okoye.
The world champions won the Challenge with a mobile application called the FD-Detector, which they developed to help tackle the Challenge of fake pharmaceutical products in Nigeria.
Honored to announce Junior Gold Scholarship winning team Save A Soul, whose app FD-Detector will prevent countless lives in Nigeria from being lost to fake pharmaceutical drugs. #WorldPitch ? pic.twitter.com/ayqg190Ms4
— Technovation (@technovation) August 10, 2018
Under the tutelage of Uchenna Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu the CEO of Edufun Technik STEM, the Golden Girls spent five months researching and developing FD-Detector which swept through over 2000 competing applications to get to the finals in San Francisco.
We’re super proud of them and we hope they bring the FD-Detector to life.
