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Finland partners firm to train pupils on coding

By Chuka Odittah, Abuja
02 March 2017   |   2:15 am
At least one hundred and sixty secondary school pupils drawn across the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja have been trained in computer coding technique by Finland...

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At least one hundred and sixty secondary school pupils drawn across the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja have been trained in computer coding technique by Finland government in partnership with Ventures platform, a Nigerian technology innovation company.

The project, sponsored by Finnish global telecoms company, Nokia, in association with Aalto University is designed to produce a new generation of technologists especially with more female participation in technology driven inventions.

Finland Ambassador to Nigeria, Pirjo Suomela Chowdhury who hosted the students after the training stressed the importance of technology in future development adding that the world needs increased participation of women in technology alongside the men folk.

The Finland ambassador explained that the training is part of activities lined up to commemorate the 100 years anniversary of Finland while pointing out that various training events would hold in other African countries over the next 100 days under a program titled ‘Code Bus Africa’.

She noted that participating students have shown enthusiasm and willingness to further learn more about coding.

“Code Bus Africa is organized in Nigeria by the Embassy of Finland, in partnership with the Finnish Aalto University and an Abuja based innovation hub ventures platform. We are pleased with the readiness of the students invited to learn more about coding. Its very encouraging.

“The project focuses primarily on young people. This innovative activity consists of creating coding training through a workshop where students pair up to learn coding and to produce their own song with free source platform Sonic Pi. And the program has been designed in such a way that half of the participants in the workshops were female. The aim is to boost grassroots level teaching of computer programming, and to contribute to long-term efforts to promote quality technology driven education for male and female students with global skills” she said.

In her remarks, Obioha Mimshach, one of the facilitators of the event from Ventures Platform, said the local company involved in global standard technology business was selected to provide content and logistics for the training as well as liaise with government authorities for selection of participating schools.

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