Nigeria has once again been named among the beneficiary countries in the continent for SAP Africa Code Week 2016.
The enterprise application software company planned to continue this project to train more secondary school students and their teachers in software coding beyond Nigeria.
NewswatchNIgeria gathered that the Train-The-Trainer (TTT) workshops in Lagos and Abuja will seek to train in excess of 200 participants in the Code Week 2016 project.
Recall that in 2015 when the project started a team of SAP Africa, led the President of SAP Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Mr. Franck Cohen, were in Lagos for the project and visited Ojodu Grammar School in Lagos state where the team commenced the training.
With over 1,500 educators trained in 2015, all of whom have gone on to positively impact the lives of thousands of young people, SAP’s long-term goal is to empower more than 200,000 teachers reaching in excess of five million children and youth over the next ten years in the continent.
Africa’s working-age population is growing rapidly, but it’s estimated that less than one percent of African children leave school with basic coding skills. ACW helps shape the future workforce by sparking interest in software coding with participating youth receiving not only basic skills but also invaluable hands-on experience.
The initiative provides learners from the ages of 8 – 17 with coding basics and the opportunity to program their own animations, quizzes and games. Older learners, aged 18-24, are provided an introduction to web technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and SQL in order to provide them with a basic understanding of website architecture, teaching them how to develop a fully operational and mobile-friendly website.
The project is designed to train students and teachers in software coding. SAP has a free online course known as Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for students and teachers who register for the programme.
The Nigeria TTT workshops will take place in Lagos on Tuesday, 27 September at the recently constructed Digital Village and Abuja on Thursday, 29 September in partnership with National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS).
TTT workshops are open to all school teachers and any other parties interested in becoming part of ACW, and all attendees will receive 90 minutes of training, a USB with course notes and Scratch (coding programme) pre-loaded, T-shirts and a training certificate upon completion.
To reward the efforts of the teachers involved in this initiative, the school that teaches coding to the most students will win a laptop and data projector valued at more than 176,000 NGN.
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