Five teenage girls from Regina Pacies Secondary School Onitsha, Anambra State in Nigeria were crowned world champions at the World Technovation Challenge in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, United States, last night. The girls beat teams from USA, Spain, Turkey, Uzbekistan and China to clinch the gold medal.
The girls namely Promise Nnalue, Jessica Osita, Nwabuaku Ossai, Adaeze Onuigbo and Vivian Okoye are reported to be attracting a lot of attention in the world's greatest technological hub.
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| The Nigerian team at the event |
The team representing Nigeria won the Challenge with a mobile application called the FD-Detector which they developed to help tackle the challenge of fake pharmaceutical products in Nigeria.
Under the tutelage of Uchenna Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu the CEO of Edufun Technik STEM, the Golden Girls spent five months researching and developing FD-Detector which swept through over 2,000 competing applications to get to the finals in San Francisco.
Technovation is a programme that offers girls around the world the opportunity to learn the programming skills they need to emerge as tech-entrepreneurs and leaders.
Every year, girls are invited to identify a problem in their communities, and then challenge them to solve them by developing Andriod applications that would address those problems.
115 countries participated in the qualifiers but only 12 teams from all over the world were selected as finalists for the pitch in Silicon Valley.
The girls will also be attending field trips, life-changing workshops including a networking session during their one week stay in America.
115 countries participated in the qualifiers but only 12 teams from all over the world were selected as finalists for the pitch in Silicon Valley.
The girls will also be attending field trips, life-changing workshops including a networking session during their one week stay in America.
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