Calabar, Nigeria – iKapture Centre for Development invites professional men and women, students, parents, teachers and tech enthusiasts to attend the Technovation Girls South-South Regional Pitch Event 2023. The event welcomes up to 300 guests including registered teams from Cross River and Akwa-Ibom states.
Technovation Girls is a global competition that challenges girls (8 to18 years) to become problem-solvers through the development of mobile applications that tackle problems in their communities. Since inception, over 10,000 girls from 78 countries have participated in the program. Each season usually concludes with a World Pitch in the United States, where top teams compete for the grand prize. Participants have the opportunity to network with leaders in the tech industry. In 2015, Calabar team led by our Founder emerged as Global Winners and in 2021, another team made it to the Regional Finals. The girls received support and global recognition for their ideas.
This year, we look forward to a successful season with teams from Calabar and Uyo competing to represent Nigeria at the finals. Thus, your presence during the event will be a morale booster to the girls (including special students) who are determined to make it to the end of this challenge.
EVENT DETAILS:
DATE: 19th and 20th of May, 2023
TIME: 8am – 3pm daily
VENUE: University of Calabar International Conference center
We look forward to your participation.
This season, nearly 600 girls from across Cross River State and Akwa Ibom State registered and completed the program. Supported by more than 19 mentors, volunteers, Student/Club Ambassador and the Chapter Ambassador within the two states. Girls participating in both states were supported by the team atiKapture Centre for Development who volunteered their time to recruit and mentor teams as they planned, developed, and built a mobile app addressing societal problems they care about.
We look forward to your participation.
ABOUT IKAPTURE CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT
iKapture Centre for Development is a nonprofit youth organization providing solutions to the youth and educational challenges in Nigeria using innovative strategies and information and communication technology (ICT). The organization works with secondary and post-secondary students as well as graduates and youth between the ages of 15 and 25 years who require certain relevant skills to be outstanding in an increasingly competitive environment.
We provide high quality and intensive training, tutorials, engagement programs, internship and links to opportunities for development. Our emerging educational software will be the grand provider of e-learning platforms both on/offline to help students prepare for career and higher education and augment the educational learning system. The key tenets of our work are Leadership, Personal Development, Entrepreneurship, Academic Excellence and Employability. We work with individuals and companies to drive development.
ABOUT TECHNOVATION
Technovation is a global tech education nonprofit that empowers girls to become more confident leaders, creators and problem-solvers. Technovation offers engaging, student-centered learning programs in which girls ages 8-18 learn how to use AI and app-based technologies to solve real-world problems. Technovation partners with global organizations like UNICEF, UNESCO and UN Women, and with mentors from companies like Salesforce, Adobe, Shopify, IBM, Google, Oracle, Globant, Ericsson, Intel, HSBC and Microsoft to reach girls and families in more than 100 countries. To learn more, visit technovation.org.
