Posted by Lucy Ikpesu on November 5, 2019
The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) celebrates Africa Science Week 2019 in Nigeria. The African Science Week was funded by Next Einstein Forum, an initiative of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in partnership with Robert Bosch Stiftung and Johnson & Johnson and hosted at the Nile University of Nigeria. In Nigeria, the event was coordinated by the African [...]
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Posted by Lucy Ikpesu on October 16, 2019
I (Alo Kingsley) have been exposed to pretty much everything on the tech world besides coding as I have had an affinity for it starting from my gaming days. As time went on, I found myself having a stronger affiliation with the disruptive impacts that some of these recent technologies (such as the Blockchain/cryptocurrencies, Artificial [...]
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Posted by Lucy Ikpesu on July 11, 2019
I am Rebecca Nanjala a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Nairobi Kenya, and an alumni chapter lead of the WAAW Foundation STEM outreach program at the University of Nairobi Kenya. I won the WAAW Foundation scholarship in 2015 when I was in my 3rd year of university. College was expensive, the scholarship [...]
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Posted by Obafemi on July 3, 2019
With the advent of technology and the societal penetration & acceptability of Social Media which is termed the New Media, the narrative behind Marketing has changed. Exposing your products and services to potential customers requires you meeting them where they are; Online. There are over 4,269,372,209 Internet Users in the world (source: https://www.internetlivestats.com/), out of [...]
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Posted by Obafemi on June 6, 2019
The WAAW Foundation STEM and Digital Literacy Teachers Training will train 100 trainers who are STEM and ICT secondary school teachers in Abuja, Lagos, and Imo states; Our aim is to develop the Teachers’ professional skills, introduce them to relevant STEM applications that could be adapted for use in the classroom and improve teaching pedagogy. As more [...]
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Posted by Obafemi on May 8, 2019
Enoch Jacob is an Alumni of the WAAW Foundation's Teacher training program. WAAW foundation Teachers training objective is to promote inquiry-based learning in secondary education. WAAW Foundation understands that training STEM Teachers is a critical component in ensuring that African girls are trained in STEM. We focus on giving teachers GENDER-SENSITIVE STEM curriculum so teachers can [...]
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Posted by Tolulope Owajoba on May 7, 2019
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 [...]
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Posted by Obafemi on May 2, 2019
It was all fun today when the WAAW Team hosted Ojolo Simileoluwa Johan, a "2019 WAAW Scholar" at the Lagos Office. Simileoluwa, a WAAW Scholarship awardee, is a 300 Level Student of the University of Lagos, studying Civil and Environmental Engineering. She is a high spirited individual, who has excelled through her studies up to the University with [...]
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Posted by Obafemi on April 17, 2019
After months of thorough search and difficult work done by some of our colleagues directly involved in organizing the whole process, we have finally moved into our new office. From now on you can find us at 3rd Floor, 117 Apapa Road, via Costain, Ebute Metta, Lagos. You will see this address updated in our [...]
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Posted by Funke on April 16, 2019
We are delighted to be a Grantee to the ACT Foundation once again in 2019. WAAW Foundation was at the ACT Foundation 2019 grantees on-boarding training on Thursday 11th and Friday 12th April 2019 at the Access Bank Head Office. We are collaborating with ACT Foundation to train 300 Nigerian youths from low income [...]
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