WAAW receives 2019 ACT Grant Award
Working to Advance STEM Education for African Women (WAAW) Foundation was awarded a grant of $21,000 from the Aspire Coronation Trust (ACT) Foundation for the expansion of the She Hacks Africa Coding Bootcamp program in Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria. This grant will be used specifically to train 300 Nigerian youth on Software Programming, Entrepreneurship […]
Gaining Visibility in the Tech Space: Putting Yourself Out There by Mary Abiodun
Have you ever been in a gathering of people you’ve never met in your life, only for you to introduce yourself to them with just your name and nothing more and they go, “Oh, so you are Mary Abiodun. Wow!”. That was the exact experience I had at a hackathon. I was very surprised to […]
#givingtuesday Donate to WAAW foundation and empower girls in Africa through STEM Education
Join the movement and donate to WAAW foundation cause #givingtuesday “Everyone has something to give. You can give time or expertise, monetary donations large or small, simple acts of kindness, food or clothing. We hear and see firsthand the challenges African girls face when it comes to learning Science and Technology, but we are equally […]
Team-Illuminat Shared its experience at She Hacks Africa Week 1
GROUP 5: THE ILLUMINANT ARTICLE TITLE: BRIEF REPORT OF THE SHA COHORT 7 ACTIVITIES (WEEK 1) The She Hacks Africa, SHA is a 4-week intensive coding programme organized by the African Women Engineering and Leadership Entrepreneurship (AWELE) Academy. The aim of the programme is to introduce, encourage and train youths most especially girls, into the […]
2018 Abuja and Lagos STEM-ICT Teachers Training
2018 STEM – ICT TEACHERS TRAINING In line with the WAAW Foundation’s vision to empower African women to become impactful leaders, change agents and technology innovators through STEM engagement, WAAW integrates and promotes hands-on experiential learning into classrooms in private and public schools by organizing a FREE STEM-ICT Teachers’ Training/Workshop in Abuja and Lagos this […]
Discover how we have been working to promote STEM Education for girls in Africa
Discover How we have been working to promote STEM Education for girls in Africa Our Annual reports give us the opportunity to report to you — the people who support us and make our work possible — on our recent achievements. But the work we do far exceeds the capacity of this report to tell […]
Encouraging Women In STEM Industries
Historically, gender imbalance has been a cancer that has plagued almost every aspect of life. In the education sector, nowhere is this more evident than in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, collectively known as STEM. The STEM fields have always experienced a woman problem all across the world, but more so in […]
The WAAW foundation 4th STEM camp program was another huge success!
Recently, The Working to Advance STEM education for African Women (WAAW) foundation in partnership with ETSD foundation and AFRITEX initiative organized a 6-day Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) camp, designed to create opportunity for secondary school girls to explore STEM as well as Computer Science training through technology-rich demonstrations, classroom presentations, hands-on activities and […]
Application for our 2016 STEM teachers training is open!
We invite secondary school teachers from Government or Public secondary schools across Nigeria to apply for our new and unique training module on Computer programming and STEM hands-on activities. The training workshop will take place in Abuja, Nigeria from August 6-10, 2016. During the 5-day workshop, teachers will learn how to build a robot, […]
Application is open for Summer STEM Camp for girls in Abuja, Nigeria
The application period for 2016 WAAW foundation Summer camp, a week-long, fun, hands-on STEM immersion program for secondary school girls, is now open. This summer, The Working to Advance STEM Education for African Women (WAAW) foundation is hosting 40 Secondary school girls for a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) camp designed to inspire African […]