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THE 2023 DIGITAL SKILL-UP BOOTCAMP (DSB)

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iKapture Centre for Development welcomes you to the 2023 Digital Skill-Up Bootcamp (DSB). The DSB is a four-week intensive and immersive tech program designed for kids and teenagers (between the ages of 5 and 18) who seek to enhance their digital skills. Participants will be exposed to not just coding and mobile app building but to drone technology, whiteboard animation, soft skills (such as self-awareness, communication, public speaking, and teamwork), and much more.

After completing the program, students join a growing alumni network for career support and community. They have access to mentors to further develop their skills. The following will be covered by our digital programs:

  • Basic Computer Literacy
  • Programming: HTML
  • Graphics Design
  • Mobile App Development
  • Web Creation and Management
  • Copywriting/Content writing
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Drone Technology
  • Whiteboard Animation
  • Digital Illustration
  • Soft Skills

The 2023 DSB programme is scheduled as follows:

Duration:      1st to 31st August 2023

Time:             10.00 am to 2:00 pm (daily from Monday to Friday)

Venue:           iKapture Centre for Development, 3 Victory Way, Unical Satellite Town, Calabar, CRS, Nigeria.

Enrollment Fee: NGN 30,000 Only (This covers facilitation, training kits, and certificates)

Discounted rate for ‘Early Birds’: NGN 25,000 (This expires on the 21st of July 2023)

Please note that the DSB programme will be conducted both in-person and virtually.

Do not miss out on this golden opportunity to engage, equip, and educate your wards!!!

Click here to register for the programme.

You can also keep in touch with iKapture’s progress of events through our social media handles stated below:

Facebook:  ikaptureCentreforDevelopment

Instagram: : ikapturecentre

LinkedIn:   iKapture Centre for Development

Stay tuned for our latest update.

TECHNOVATION SOUTH-SOUTH NIGERIA REGIONAL PITCH EVENT 2023

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Following the launch workshop and code-girls meet-ups that spanned for four months (i.e. from January to April 2023), Technovation South-South Nigeria organizes her Regional Pitch Event on the 19th and 20th of May, 2023 at the University of Calabar International Conference Centre, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. This event hosted about 300 attendees including contestants, parents, mentors, volunteers, staff and management of the respective schools from Calabar and Uyo.

47 teams of girls ages 8-18 took the stage on the 19th and 20th of May, 2023 at the University of Calabar International Conference Center, to talk about their problems and the solution they found. These young girls have spent the last 4 months identifying a global technology entrepreneurship program that challenges girls to develop a mobile application to solve an issue they have identified in their community. Some of the problems addressed by their invented mobile apps included low student performances in high school, food waste, climate change, awareness of Asthma, skin diseases and insecurity of judges from the tech industry.

Amid the tough competition, 5 teams emerged as winners for the three respective divisions (i.e. 2 teams for the Beginner division, 2 teams for the Junior division, and a team for the Senior division). These 5 teams (representing South-South Nigeria) will now be advancing to the virtual semi-final round where judges from around the world will evaluate their submissions.
On this note, the iKapture-Technovation team announces the following 5 winning teams of the Technovation South-South Regional Pitch Events:

[ BEGINNER DIVISION]

1. Team  Samaritan

App name: SamaritanApp

SamaritanApp is a platform that creates a connection between those in need and those who can help.

2. Team Girls innovate

App name: AgroFund

Agrofund is an innovative platform empowering farmers and investors to collaborate and cultivate a sustainable agricultural sector that benefits all.

[ JUNIOR DIVISION]

1. Team  Aluno

App name: Alunno

Aluno is a peer-to-peer learning Based Mobile application for Collaborative Learning and student growth in high school. Aluno has three important dimensions of learning resources namely learning contents, learning collaborators and learning services.

2. Team ASPA

App name: Asthmalogic

Asthmalogic is a low data consuming app that is designed to help asthmatic patients. It gives information about the weather, diets, asthmatic patients should consume and the common allergies of an asthmatic patient. It links asthmatic patients, doctors and prescribes useful and helpful medications. 

[SENIOR DIVISION]

1. Team S-Care

App name: DermaDoc

DermaDoc helps reduce the rate of skin disease in our immediate environment and the world or society at large. It helps to link up the mass to dermatologists. Their AI takes a photograph of the affected part of your skin, reads it and explains to you its causes, symptoms, preventive measures and cure [if any] .It will also show you similar diseases in order to widen your knowledge about skin diseases.

Of all the participating teams in this year’s global Technovation Girls program, 15 will be invited to attend the global Technovation World Pitch Summit in October and pitch their mobile app ideas to industry experts and advocates in the United States. In addition to educational experiences during the trip, winning teams receive scholarships to advance their education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects. 

In her keynote address speaker -Justina Ovat (founder of JO Foundation) admonishes all the contestants with the following words:

You have all shown that abilities and intelligence can be developed through effort and learning. This mindset encourages resilience, a willingness to learn from failure, and the motivation to continuously improve”.

The 2023 Technovation Girls challenge has been eye-opening especially for the debuts in the event to brace up for future challenges. This event is but one of the programmes anchored by the iKapture Centre for Development.

Kindly keep up with our latest updates on our websites https://ikapturenetworks.org/ and on our respective social media handles:

  1. Instagram: ikapturecentre
  2. LinkedIn: iKapture Centre for Development
  3. Facebook: ikapture Centre for Development


TECHNOVATION GIRLS CHALLENGE NIGERIA – 2023

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Technovation is a global tech education nonprofit that empowers girls to become more confident leaders, creators, and problem solvers. Since 2010, the organization has engaged over 32,000 girls between the ages of 8 and 18 from over 100 countries in creating mobile applications (using AI and app-based technologies) to solve communal problems. To learn more about the organization, kindly visit technovation.org.

In collaboration with the iKapture Centre for Development, the 2023 Technovation Girls Challenge Program was brought to Calabar in Cross River State, a south-south region of Nigeria.

 Activities for the Technovation Girls Challenge 2023 commenced in earnest on the second week of January 2023 with the visitation of schools (including nursery, primary, and secondary) and the submission of invitation letters to such schools by the iKapture-Technovation Team for permission to sensitize the girls about Technovation, as most schools were debuts to this challenge.

This year’s Technovation challenge involved schools in remote areas in both Calabar and Uyo as well as a special education centre in Calabar. From these schools emerged a total of over 600 registered participants with some 200 established teams that engaged in this global competition which proceeded with a launch workshop and several code-girls meet-ups.

Parents and guardians of these girls really appreciated this global competition. Notice the statement from one of the parents:
“I am very grateful to iKapture Centre for Development for bringing in this great program (Technovation Girls Challenge), which has helped boost my daughter’s intellect in terms of technology/technical skills, team building & critical thinking. This is my first time seeing her being committed to a task in competition and standing a chance of winning.” – A grateful parent.
The first two phases of this global competition (i.e. the launch workshop and the code-girls meet-ups) whetted the appetite of the parents and management of some schools for the next phase of this challenge – the Regional Pitch Event.
Kindly keep up with our latest updates on our websites https://ikapturenetworks.org/ and on our respective social media handles:

  1. Instagram: ikapturecentre
  2. LinkedIn: iKapture Centre for Development
  3. Facebook: ikapture Centre for Development

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