The BEMORE girls 2018 summer camp in Owerri, was our very first project in Eastern Nigeria. During the project which lasted for a week, we trained 50 girls in computer Appreciation, use of office productivity tools, elementary computer programming with scratch, creative publishing and graphics design with Corel Draw. We had an amazing time working with the girls and they were able to learn so much during the one week boot camp in Owerri, Imo state, Nigeria. They found the graphics design class to be the most interesting as they were all taught to design their camp name tags during the class.

If we don’t talk about it, we may never know how we can work together to get it done. Our round table on the Future of Skills and Education in Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria, had a cross section of participants and partners from several organizations in attendance. The conversations were driven towards assessing the current state of the educational system in Nigeria and coming with ideas around structures and policy to be put in place to ensure that the system is improved to cater for the future skill requirements. Our Sincere appreciation to all our partners who contributed towards making the event a success; as we champion solution driven actions towards building a skilled Africa. The round table was proudly sponsored by Microsoft Nigeria.

While the 2017 "Girl Child I.C.T empowerment Initiative" trained a 100 girls, the 2018 version of the project trained 400 girls. The project is organized annually in partnership with the office of the first lady of Ondo State to help empower young girls with digital and technological skills. During the 2018 summer boot camp we helped the students acquaint themselves with working with the computer, understanding the computer components, their individual functions and how they work together, we also trained the girls on the effective use of office productivity tools, such as power point, excel and Microsoft word. Also the girls were introduced to elementary computer programming, problem solving and game design with Kodu game Lab and Scratch Programming. The camp was a great success with a lot positive impact on the girls.

"Hour of Code " is global initiative created to sensitize kids, teenagers and young adults about technology, digital literacy and computer programming. It is usually a week long project with events organized globally to commemorate the computer science education week. For the 2017 edition of "Hour of Code", we partnered with "KidsnTech" and Microsoft Nigeria, to train 800 students in 8 schools in Akure Ondo State, Nigeria. The events started with the team touring round the participating schools on Monday 4th of December 2017, the training session started on the following day. Each day we visited two schools and trained the students using scratch and Minecraft. The project was a great success and a good experience for the team.

Our Next stop over during the project was at L.A Primary School, Araromi in Ondo State Nigeria. Also in this school 30 students were trained and introduced to computing and coding using the SeedDEV learning application which introduces these kids to programming. For most schools in this area visited, kids growing here do not have access to computers hence,our next project is to plant a SeedBOX ( Solar Powered, Internet Enabled, Air conditioned, computer facility). Which would serve as computer facility where these kids would continue to learn even after the training.

During the Project, we also visited Mega Primary School, Kurugbene, where we also trained 30 students in the school using the SeedDEV Learning Application that helps to introduce students to programming with Python, Java, C#, Javascript, Php. The kids were very excited to be a part of the training as most of them have not seen or worked with a computer system before the visit.