Foremost fintech and human capital technology firm, SystemSpecs is set to kick start the Remita Summer Coding Camp for secondary school students in Nigeria.
The initiative stems from the company’s need to equip secondary school students with digital skills in an accelerated and practical learning environment that aims to improve access to technology education in Nigeria.
In a statement signed by the Executive Director, SystemSpecs, Deremi Atanda and made available to newsmen, SystemSpecs revealed that the inaugural edition will hold in Lagos and Abuja and offers twenty openings. It also said that admission opens between 2nd and 7th of August 2019, hence, students or their parents, teachers or friends are to apply for the 2-week IT training by submitting their details on the programme’s application site. Selected participants would be announced and contacted on August 9, 2019.
The 2-week Remita Summer Coding Camp will officially open from August 12 to 23, 2019 and would empower participants in various aspects of computer programming such as the fundamentals of the web, animation, robotics, game design, among others, using various tools and a curriculum that helps participants have an accelerated understanding of the concepts being taught. Also, It will open their minds to the limitless technology possibilities and actively prepares them for the innovations of the future.
“At SystemSpecs, we recognise the rising impact of technology in our world today and the even more significant place it would occupy in future. We are also aware of the importance of building ICT capacity across the technology ecosystem, not only for the present, but for the future,” the statement said.
It added, “with the Remita Summer Coding Camp, we continue to invest in the next big technology innovators from Africa to the rest of the world as we have done in the past, working with Lagos State on Code Lagos, and other partners on the Girls-in-ICT initiative, among many other indigenous capacity development initiatives on which we have chosen to focus.”
Also speaking on the initiative, Akor Akpenyi, SystemSpecs’ CSR programme administrator, noted that the fully hands-on Remita Summer Coding Camp promises to be an exciting time for young Nigerians of different backgrounds and experiences.