THE four female students from Nigeria who developed an android application named AgriConnect, meant to deal with hunger issues in the country, will be attending this year’s World Technovation Girls Challenge held in Silicon Valley, California, in the United States of America.
The JSS2 students; Oghenemaro Tejiri,12, from Delta State, Salome Akhabhau,11, Excel Barile-Nwika,11 and Goodness Nwonanne-Chima,12, are students of a Port- Harcourt based private secondary school, Jacob’s Well High School, who developed an android application called AgriConnect to combat hunger in Nigeria.
The girls were under the tutelage of Code Ambassadors, the consultants engaged to groom students in the school to become shining stars in the evolving tech world
The AgriConnect was among the 3,200 android applications developed by about 11,000 girls from 69 countries, including the USA, UK, Japan, China, Canada, and Spain. The four girls who call themselves the Smart Elite, fell into the beginners division of the contest, whose age bracket falls between eight and 12 years; the other categories being the junior division (ages 13-17) and Senior Division (ages 18 and above).
After a series of assessments by several judges drawn from various disciplines, 15 android applications were selected as finalists (five android applications for each division), while three android applications were selected for special awards, which virtual ceremony took place on July 9.
For their outstanding app, the young Nigerian female developers who were given special recognition, are being invited to the all-expenses paid technovation summit where the grand awardees would be selected.
Coordinator and proprietor of the school, Mrs. Egondu Jacob, told newsmen that it was not surprising that her students were putting the Niger Delta and Nigeria on the list of nations of the world whose students are outstanding in app developments at a very young age.
