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W.TEC: Working towards bridging the gender gap in STEM

Dear friends,

Trust you are all doing great!

Happy New Year! We hope this year has been as wonderful for you as it has been for us, we appreciate your support towards our various projects and we are looking forward to great opportunities this year.

Please read below to see what we have been up to:

• 2022 W.TEC She Creates Camp
• W.TEC Academy concluded it first term and resumes it second term for 2022/2023 School Year
• W.TEC MakeHer Space Review Meeting and Graduation Ceremony
• SHE CAN WITH ICT programme continues its training in Kwara and Lagos State
• W.TEC She Talks Tech Radio Show
• W.TEC celebrated the international day of the girl child.

1. 2022 W.TEC She Creates Camp

W.TEC She Creates Camp is an initiative designed for girls to inspire them to be more enlightened about the importance of ICT, to know how to create digital contents and also to develop the skills that uses information communication technologies effectively and productively.

The 2022 W.TEC She Creates Camp was the 15th of its kind; it is an initiative of the Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) tagged ‘’Eco Innovators” the 2-weeks programme took place at Laureates College, Mafoluku, Lagos which commenced on Sunday 7^th August 2022 and ended on Saturday 20^th August 2022 with a graduation ceremony which was graced by partners, sponsors and parents/guardians of the students, and the media was not left out to cover the grand event.For the two weeks, the young women participated in technology workshops, career presentations, excursions and leadership activities. The She Creates Camp provides a high quality and exciting environment where the girls learn to create useful technologies for everyday living through computer programming, digital electronics, mobile application development, graphics and 3D design, electrical & electronic solution, filmmaking and digital animation programming. The camp ended with a graduation and exhibition of projects the girls worked on.            28 girls participated and graduated from the 2022 She Creates Camp. In line with the sustainability plan of the She Creates Camp, a courtesy visit was made to the Lagos State Ministry of Education, A post follow-up call which is done quarterly kicked off and a campaign (giving Tuesday) was launched in support towards the programme.

• Courtesy Visit to Lagos State Ministry of Education District IV:

W.TEC staff visited the Tutor General/Permanent Secretary of the Lagos state ministry of education district 4 in appreciation of their support towards our camp through the past years, the courtesy visit took place on the 23^rd of November 2022, we presented the camp report to him and went along with some students who participated in the camp to share their experience of the camp, it was an interesting visit as the TG/PS was elated to have us and to hear our success stories about how W.TEC offered the students scholarships to attend the camp and how the camp has helped a lot of the students in the government schools to be more conversant with the use of technology.

• W.TEC Giving Tuesday:

Giving Tuesday is our annual end of year campaign tagged “Make Her Great” which runs from November to December, it aims to build a sustainable support system that will enable us maintain a long-term pipeline for our W.TEC beneficiaries. Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea, a day that encourages people to contribute towards helping the society. Over the past decade, this idea has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of people to give and celebrate generosity. The movement also strives to build a world in which the catalytic power of generosity is at the heart of the society we build together, unlocking dignity, opportunity and equity around the globe.

• W.TEC She Creates Evaluation:

As part of a sustainability plan for the She Creates Alumni, W.TEC created a survey for all her camp alumni to evaluate them based on their STEAM skills and how they have been using technology they learnt at the She create camp in their day-to-day activities.

This evaluation helps us find out how they are using their ICT skills in their various career paths, we also give the alumni the opportunity to share innovative ideas on how to improve our curriculum for the next camp. This evaluation is done annually in order for us to maintain a relationship with all our alumni.

Plans are currently on the pipeline for the 2023 She Creates Camp while we seek for co-operate and individual donors & partners. Our target for 2023 is 50 participants from both private & public schools.

   2.  W.TEC Academy concluded its First term and resumes it second term for 2022/2023 School Year

The W.tec Academy running in Kwara and Lagos state concluded its first term in December 2022, the programme graduated a total of 256 & 499 in Kwara and Lagos respectively. The participants can now confidently build a simple website, create and edit videos, graphic designs, data analysis and work on various programming applications like mobile applications etc. Certificates were presented to the successful participants who completed the programme.

It’s back to school for the girls and it’s a New Year and new term for the students after the Christmas and New Year break. W.TEC is also set to resume classes for W. TEC Academy, our co-curricular technology programme for secondary school female students.

For the new term, the Academy will be taking place again in the 23 existing secondary schools in Lagos and Kwara states and we are planning to extend the academy to one additional state (Ondo State) and as well add to the existing schools in Lagos state.

The Academy has been carefully designed for students in these schools to help improve their digital technology skill and empower them with necessary information and skills to boost their academic, entrepreneurial and professional outcomes in the future.

The W.TEC Academy team members will continue to put in their best to make sure the participating schools have their facilities in good shape for a smooth sailing class for the girls. The new students selected for this term in Kwara state will be learning computer fundamentals, Website design using Mobirize, graphic design and Mobile Application. While the Lagos schools will be learning scratch programming, video game design and video editing.

W.TEC Academy is a co-curricular technology programme for public secondary school girls, which presents technology in a practical and engaging way, with the ultimate aim of encouraging more girls to pursue science and technology careers.

The Academy programme in Kwara State is implemented in collaboration with Oracle and the Kwara State Ministry of Education, while the Academy programme in Lagos State is implemented in collaboration with the Lagos State Ministry of Education.

    3.  W.TEC MakeHer Space Review Meeting and Graduation Ceremony

The W.TEC MakeHER Space programme was renewed and we have the opportunity to train More girls. We commenced this cycle in September with pre-evaluation session in Lagos State, Kwara State, Nasarawa, Abuja and Bauchi State and training is currently running in in cohorts in 21 centers across the states. Our team is set to train more girls on Renewable Energy to build projects like power bank, solar phone charger, rechargeable lamp and many more. Makeher Space is a programme by W.TEC designed to provide women and girls (ages 10-25 years) hands-on skills, to build technological and engineering-based solutions for their communities. 

Prior to the graduation ceremony, W.TEC held a review meeting for the project in all the states with facilitators, state coordinators, supervisors and partners in all the state to review the progress of the project and discussed what went well and areas that needs improvement in terms of mobilization, celebrations, supports, equipment, curriculum and many more. It was indeed a very productive meeting in all the states as we tackled all the topics. W. TEC also had a courtesy visit to some of the partners in Abuja on the 21^st of June 2022. W.TEC MakeHER Space Programme is done with support from Google

    4.  Sustaining Her Enterprise Career and Network (SHE CAN WITH ICT) programme wrap up and resumption for the next circle

 The SHE CAN WITH ICT programme continues its training for 2022/2023 grant circle and has equipped 101 existing and inspiring female entrepreneurs with technology skills and knowledge. The programme is proposed to reach 500 existing and aspiring business women in its in-person and online classes.

The Sustaining Her Enterprise Career and Network (SHE CAN WITH ICT), is a W.TEC Initiative designed to improve the productivity and profitability of women-owned businesses, by equipping them with in-depth practical digital technology skills and tools to catalyze their entrepreneurial growth in an increasingly technology-driven business environment. The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) is implementing the SHE CAN WITH ICT programme in collaboration with Aspire Coronation Trust (ACT) Foundation.

The programme has trained 97 participants in Lagos and this was done in partnership with International Women Society (IWS), Sickle Cell Advocacy and Management Initiative (SAMI). The participants trained so far were excited to be part of the training and the feedback was fantastic. Other trainings will follow up working these partners and other new partners we are having discussion with to bring the training to more women in the state.

The SHE CAN WITH ICT programme since it’s commencement in Kwara State has trained 202 business women and aspiring business women in the 4 cohorts out of the planned 6 cohorts. The feedback from the participants gave us the zeal and motivation to continue the training as participants who graduated from the programme refer other interested business women and aspiring business women to join the next cohort of the training.

The online version of the SHE CAN with ICT programme has also trained 49 participants in total. The online classes are organised to cater for interested women who cannot take part in the in-person training due to unavoidable reasons.

We look forward to equipping more existing and aspiring female entrepreneurs and impacting more lives in this new year.

    5.  W.TEC SHE TALKS TECH:

She talks tech is a women’s-focused show aimed at presenting technology in a fun, accessible and practical way. Research shows that digital technology has the potential to improve women’s quality of life, but much of this potential is unfulfilled due to structural factors like prohibitive cost of access. Our target audiences are women aged 18 to 40 years. The radio show focuses on Interviews with women working in technology careers covering their career journeys, mistakes they made, what their typical day is like, advice to other women building a successful career in technology, Technology tips and techniques for business, managing personal lives, building networks, managing health, education, etc

        6.   INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD WAS CELEBRATED AT OREGUN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, KUDIRAT ABIOLA WAY IKEJA:

International Day of the Girl Child is an annual event and internationally recognized on October 11, declared by the United Nations, to empower girls and amplify their voices, support more opportunities for them and increases awareness of gender inequality they face worldwide. The celebration of the day also "reflects the successful emergence of girls and young women as a distinct cohort in development policy, programming, campaigning and research.

To celebrate the international day of the Girl Child this year, the Women’s Technology
Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) marked the event at two centres in Lagos state. The first event was celebrated in collaboration with the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) on the 11^th October 2022 and the second event was celebrated in collaboration with Cummins West Africa at the Oregun Junior High school on the 12^th of October 2022.

The event featured well packed and interesting activities to mark the day. We had keynote speakers who gave a talk on the theme for this year “Our time is now our rights, our future “

Representatives from Cummins, Union Bank, the Ministry of Education and a host of some of our alumnae who are in the STEM field graced the occasion. The young STEM professionals spoke to the girls andhad a mentoring session with them in groups. They shared the story of their journey into STEMfield and also how they have succeeded and are succeeding in the STEM fields. The girls also had a practical workshop on electronics and renewable energy projects wherethe girls learnt how to build a solar phone charger and a power bank. The girls presented theirprojects and the best group were announced and given gifts. The girls shared their mentoring experience and asked some of the questions and concerns they have; these questions wereanswered and advise where also given to them when necessary.

Thank you for your continuous support towards our various projects, your contribution is significant and enables us reach out to more beneficiaries. We kindly solicit for your continuous donations towards our work.

Warm regards,

Diamond O. Oshomoji

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Visit W.TEC website: www.wtec.org.ng

Email W.TEC: info@wtec.org.ng

ABOUT W.TEC & SHE CREATES CAMP:

W.TEC She Creates camp is an annual programme, which started in 2008. It is an initiative of W.TEC which aims to mold young girls’psyche, give them a positive image of technology, related fields and opportunities while bridging the gender gap in STEM. The technology camp offers a variety of programmes and activities, which teaches students how tobuild and use technology in dynamic and innovative ways. The long-term goal is to increase the numbers of Nigerian girls and women using technology productively for learning, professional and leadership activities. As W.TEC works to achieve this mission, our programmes will focus increasingly on equipping girls and women to become technology creators who can develop content and build useful applications.

The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) is a Nigerian nonprofit organisation committed to building a more inclusive technology ecosystem, with the next generation of women technology creators, entrepreneurs and leaders.

Links:

• W.TEC website
• W.TEC She Create Camp

W.TEC: Working towards bridging the gender gap in STEM

Dear friends,

Trust you are all doing great!

The year 2022 has been engaging and interesting for us at W.TEC with lots of activities and impact filled projects.

Please read below to see what we have been up to: 

• 2022 She Creates Camp
• W.TEC received a National Recognition Award.
• W.TEC MakeHer Space Review Meeting and Graduation Ceremony
• W.TEC held her Early Innovators Camp for the Second Time in 2022
• W.TEC participated in the 2022 Accelium Olympics:
• W.TEC Academy resumes it First term for 2022/2023 School Year
• SHE CAN WITH ICT programme commence 2022/2023 grant circle

1. 2022 She Creates Camp

W.TEC SHE CREATES camp is an annual programme, which started in 2008. It is an initiative of W.TEC which aims to mould young girls’ psyche, give them a positive image of technology, related fields and opportunities while bridging the knowledge and skill gap between boys and girls in their career path. W.TEC She Creates Camp is an initiative designed for girls to inspire them to be more enlightened about the importance of ICT, to know how to create digital contents and also to develop the skills that uses information communication technologies effectively and productively.

Since 2008, W.TEC has run and greatly impacted 610girls through the She Creates camp initiative in Lagos, Oyo, Kwara and Anambra state (Anambra camp launched in 2018) with wonderful success stories.

The 2022 W.TEC She Creates Camp was the 15th of its kind; it is an initiative of the Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) tagged ‘’Eco Innovators”. The technology camp offers a variety of programmes and activities, which teaches students how to build and use technology in dynamic and innovative ways.

The 2-weeks programme took place at Laureates College, Mafoluku, Lagos which commenced on Sunday 7^th August 2022 and ended on Saturday 20^th August 2022 with a graduation ceremony which was graced by partners, sponsors and parents/guardians of the students, and the media was not left out to cover the grand event.For the two weeks, the young women participated in technology workshops, career presentations, excursions and leadership activities. The She Creates Camp provides a high quality and exciting environment where the girls learn to create useful technologies for everyday living through computer programming, digital electronics, mobile application development, graphics and 3D design, electrical & electronic solution, filmmaking and digital animation programming.

This year the camp focused on Software Innovations, Renewable energy & Electronics. the girls learnt computer programming, critical thinking, data types, program flow, computer programming paradigms, renewable energy, sematic diagrams, electronic symbols, solar system, tie & dye etc.

The students worked in groups using the computer systems provided to them at the start of each day. There were also extra-curricular activities, which made the camp stay more fun-filled. These are life skills that would help the girls’ live more balanced lives while building careers and having families. These life skills comprise of sessions such as Self-Defence, Team Building, Karaoke night, staying safe online, and emotional Intelligence. The entrepreneurship and skill acquisition session were exciting for the girls as they learnt how to make Tie & Dye as well as creative arts (Art & Craft), this was designed to enable girls start thinking of a business to venture into. Most of the girls have not had the opportunity of learning some of the skills taught prior to their stay at the camp and this made it a life-time experience for most of them, and a commitment to continue in the knowledge impacted to them. At the end of the camp the girls build different projects and did an exhibition on the different things they learnt during the graduation.

The students provided feedback on the camp sessions in their evaluation forms and some are included below:

The class was fun, I learnt new things I learnt how to build an app and many other things, the camp has helped me to choose what I want to be in future before the camp I had lots of options – Fareedah S.

I learnt how to create an app called classic clinic where you can chat with a doctor and the doctor can treat you   - Blessing C.

Choosing the right career

I will follow the advices in accomplishing my goals.

-          Monsurat A.

UI/UX Design

I enjoyed it because I got to explore so many ideas

-          Oreoluwa T.

Enlightens one knowledge and makes one creative

-          Ezinne O.

 Staying Safe online

I will use the knowledge I have gotten to keep myself and others safe online.

  -     Ogechi S.

 The event was featured by Media, below are some of the links:

• Press release:    https://wtec.org.ng/w-tec-holds-15th-edition-of-she-creates-camp-in-lagos-nigeria/
• Channels TV: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Aloyn-Vaw-U&list=PLl6IvhbhEqwyxS8ISpOr2UFm2bWEVqcM9&index=3
• TVC: https://youtu.be/KsL79afSoRQ
• Thisday: https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/08/22/w-tec-graduates-over-600-girls-in-ict-skills-in-14-years/
• The Independent: https://independent.ng/w-tec-holds-training-to-stir-girls-interest-in-computer/
• NNN.com: https://nnn.ng/ngo-trains-30-girls-on-digital-circuit-technologies/
• The NAN / Sun: https://t.co/SKlsp3GrjH
• Bella Naija: https://www.bellanaija.com/2022/07/she-creates-camp-2022/

2. W.TEC received a National Recognition Award.

W.TEC’s MakeHER Space project received a national recognition award from the honorable Minister of Communication and Digital Economy Nigeria.  The Minister also presented to W.TEC #WSIS2020 Championship certificate on behalf of the United Nations Agency for ICTs (@ITU) Secretary General. He commended the work W.TEC is doing to bridge the gender gap in ICT by inspiring, encouraging and equipping the female gender through their various trainings and programmes.

Our MakeHER Space project, - an initiative designed by W.TEC in collaboration with Google to teach girls to create technology and engineering-based solutions that solve problems in their communities, provide information about career options and expose them to women working successfully in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) technology and engineering empowerment programme for women. The project is supported by Google, and has trained over 3,551 women and girls in numerous tech skills across Nigeria since 2020 till date.

WSIS Prizes is a unique international contest developed in response to requests from the WSIS stakeholders to create an effective mechanism to evaluate and recognize individuals, governments, civil society, local, regional and international agencies, research institutions and private-sector companies for outstanding success in implementing development-oriented strategies that leverage the power of ICTs as an enabler of the development.

3. W.TEC MakeHer Space Review Meeting and Graduation Ceremony

The W.TEC MakeHer Space program came to an end in Nasarawa, Bauchi and Abuja with a graduation Ceremony in the different states, on the 2^nd of July 2022 in Bauchi and 9^th July 2022 in Abuja and Nasarawa to celebrate the various girls who participated 22 cohorts of the MakeHer Space programme and recognize their achievements throughout the program. The program also came to an end in the participating schools in Lagos state and Kwara State in June 2022 before the schools went on third term holiday.

Prior to the graduation ceremony in W.TEC held review meeting for the project in all the states with facilitators, state coordinators, supervisors and partners in all the state to review the progress of the project and discuss about what went well and areas that needs improvement in terms of mobilization, celebrations, supports, equipment, curriculum and many more. It was indeed a very productive meeting in all the states as we tackled all the topics.

4. W.TEC held her Early Innovators Camp for the second time in August 2022

The Early Innovators camp is a 2-week tech fun learning experience for kids between the ages of 7– 12 years. Our innovative STEM summer camp for kids in 2022 features lots of intelligence-building sessions with participants towards developing their skills, learnt in a fun-learning and safe environment. The camp features classes on the following: 

a)     Electronics

b)     Game design

c)      Computer programming

d)     Creative arts, and critical thinking sessions. 

The aim of the non-residential camp is to harness the innate curiosity of children by introducing them to computing and science concepts through play and exploration, there-by providing them with early inspiration to solving significant problems around them by exploring information and communication technology (ICTs).

The camp is designed to spark and awakened the ICT talents of participants which will become handy for them as they progress with their studies.

The W.TEC Early Innovators Camp is an initiative by W.TEC designed for boys and girls aged 5-12 years to create a generation of young programmers, designers, and entrepreneurs who can innovatively build amazing games, apps, and more. Over those past few years our STEAM camp has been described as memorable and educative by parents of alumni. Feedback from our last editions indicated a general improvement of the kids in their interest of computers and other internet-enabled devices.

5.  W.TEC participated in the 2022 Accelium Olympics:

The Accelium Olympics are challenging online tournaments of strategy games that will captivates students imagination and develop their strategic thinking skills, self-awareness, focus, and persistence. It allows participants to practically demonstrate critical thinking skills through games. This year Accelium training camp held from May 15^th-June 5^th 2022 and the tournament was from June 6^th- 8^th, 2022

W.TEC partnered with Simply Un4gettable to participate in this years’ global Accelium Olympics. We worked closely with the partner to coach and groom 50 girls in 5 Nigeria secondary school for tournament 3 and 4. 1 of our girls emerged champion in tournament 4 and another was recognised in tournament 3- both of them were invited and presented their gifts at the W.TEC Early Innovators Camp and She Creates Camp (W.TEC awarded Oreoluwa T. Full scholarship to the camp for her excellent participation during the Accelium Olympics) as schools were already on holidays when their gifts arrived.

 -          Oreoluwa emerged the African and national Champion, being 10^th in the world, out of425 participants who participated in Tournament 4. Oreoluwa was presented her gift during our W.TEC She Creates Camp on the 18^th of August, 2022. The W.TEC She Creates Camp is a residential science & technology education and mentoring programme designed to teach girls in secondary

Schools (ages 13 – 17) to learn to create useful solutions and technologies for everyday living through the application of engineering and scientific concepts, programming, mobile application development, and digital content development. 2022 She Creates Camp held from August 7 – 20, 2022. https://wtec.org.ng/she-creates-camp-2/

 -          Barakat B’s gift was presented to her at the W.TEC Early Innovators Camp on 16^th August 2022.

The W.TEC Early Innovators camp is a 2-week tech fun learning experience for kids between the ages of 5– 12 years. Our innovative STEM camp for kids in 2022 features lots of intelligence-building sessions with participants towards developing their much-needed skills, learnt in a fun-learning and safe environment. 2022 edition of the W.TEC Early Innovators camp held from August 7 – 19, 2022.

6. W.TEC Academy resumes it first term for 2022/2023 School Year

It’s back to school and new session in Nigeria after the long term break and resumption for the first term and new session in schools across the country. W.TEC is also set and has resumed classes for W. TEC Academy, our co-curricular technology programme for secondary school female students.

The third term 2021/2022 academic session was an interesting training session for the girls across the two states (Kwara and Lagos) as they went through a practical and engaging curriculum comprised of computer fundamentals, programming with scratch programming, video game design, video editing and graphic design. The academy took place in 23 schools across the two states with over1500 students. The term ended with a post evaluation test and graduation ceremony where we had STEM female professionals talk to the girls and certificate were issued to the participants of the programme

For the new session, the Academy will be taking place again in the 23 existing secondary schools in Lagos and Kwara states and we are planning to bring on board 2-3 additional schools. For this session, we plan to cover a target of 600 school girls per term across the 2 states.

The Academy has been carefully designed for students in these schools to help improve their digital technology skill and empower them with necessary information and skills to boost their academic, entrepreneurial and professional outcomes in the future. 

The W.TEC Academy team members will continue to put in their best to make sure the participating schools have their facilities in good shape for a smooth sailing class for the girls. The new students selected for this term in Kwara state will be learning computer fundamentals, Website design using Mobirize and Mobile Application. While the Lagos schools will be learning scratch programming, video game design and video editing. 

W.TEC Academy is a co-curricular technology programme for public secondary school girls, which presents technology in a practical and engaging way, with the ultimate aim of encouraging more girls to pursue science and technology careers.

The Academy programme in Kwara State is implemented in collaboration with Oracle and the Kwara State Ministry of Education, while the Academy programme in Lagos State is implemented in collaboration with the Lagos State Ministry of Education.

7. Sustaining Her Enterprise Career and Network (SHE CAN WITH ICT) programme wrap up and resumption for the next circle

 The SHE CAN WITH ICT programme launched its 2022/2023 grant circle in May 2022 and has equipped 101 existing and inspiring female entrepreneurs with technology skills and knowledge. For the 2022/2023 grand circle, the programme is proposed to reach 500 existing and aspiring business women in its in-person and online classes.

The Sustaining Her Enterprise Career and Network (SHE CAN WITH ICT), is a W.TEC Initiative designed to improve the productivity and profitability of women-owned businesses, by equipping them with in-depth practical digital technology skills and tools to catalyze their entrepreneurial growth in an increasingly technology-driven business environment. The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) is implementing the SHE CAN WITH ICT programme in collaboration with Aspire Coronation Trust (ACT) Foundation,

The first cohort of participants in Lagos were trained in partnership with International Women Society (IWS) one of our partners in Lagos, we will be working with other partners to bring the training to more women in the state.

The SHE CAN WITH ICT programme is extended to Kwara State due to the high demand and request and has commences training. We plan to have six (6) cohorts with 50 women per cohort which is to run concurrently. The first cohort of the training graduated 58 women and has commenced the second cohort.

 We look forward to equipping more existing and aspiring female entrepreneurs and impacting more lives.

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Thank you for supporting and sharing our work. Please continue to donate to our work. Also consider becoming a recurring donor and setting-up automatic monthly payments to us. We especially need your support at this time.

Together, we can keep working to build a pipeline that supports girls and women throughout their journeys from early engagement to a career in technology and sciences. We thank you and our girls thank you too.

Warm regards,

Folashade Braimoh

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• Follow W.TEC on Instagram,Twitter and Facebook
• Visit W.TEC website: www.wtec.org.ng
• Email W.TEC: info@wtec.org.ng

 ABOUT W.TEC & THE SHE CREATES CAMP:

The She Creates Camp is an initiative designed to help Nigerian secondary school girls develop an early interest in computer science, information technology and related careers. The She Creates Camp helps to intervene early, combat stereotypes and tackle the digital gender divide. We teach girls to create digital content, create software and develop skills that use information and communication technologies. Our two-week immersion programme empowers girls to contribute meaningfully to the digital economy and improve their economic opportunities.

The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) is a Nigerian nonprofit organization committed to building a more inclusive technology ecosystem, with the next generation of women technology creators, entrepreneurs and leaders.