About 150 pupils drawn from across Lagos State participated in this year’s Olusegun Coding Class camp, organised by Oluwasegun Idowu Foundation in collaboration with Foster Prime schools, Obalende, Lagos. 
   
The school provided the pupils with electricity, solar power, accommodation, feeding, and sick bay, as a way of supporting the programme.

At the end of the two-week programme, participants were tested and winners of test organised in two categories, ages 6-10 and 10-16, were rewarded with laptops and cash gifts.
 
In age 6-10 category; Olivia Foster won brand-new HP laptop, Oluwaseyi Williams who was first runner up got N150, 000 cash prize, while Moyosore Adeboyejo was rewarded with N100, 000.

For the age 10-16 category, Bolatito Adebo emerged first and was rewarded with a brand new HP laptop, while the duo of Ernest Jephthah and Ajala Oluwaseun, who were first and second runners up got N150, 000 and N100, 000 respectively,
 
Certificates were also issued to all the participants in the free two-week coding training camp.

Addressing newsmen on the programme, Idowu said the initiative was his little way of giving back to the society.

He explained that the programme was to prepare the children for the future, since the future lies in technology.  

Idowu also called on the state government to introduce coding in public schools to enable the children learn the skills.

According to him, the participants were specifically taught how to develop apps, websites, programmes, animation, and language coding to prepare them for the future.
   
Idowu stressed that the mainstream of wealth, which has always been natural resources and oil, has shifted to tech- space.

Director of school, Foster Prime Schools, Patrick Foster, urged government to collaborate with school owners to make a positive impact on the younger generation.

“At Foster Prime Schools, we believe that learning should be fun in a way that children can easily remember what they are taught against conventional learning,” he stated.