Tag: Miss.Africa Seed Fund

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Wrapping 2021 with SEED-FUND AWARD?

Holiday Greetings! Whether we’ve been under a lockdown or limited to socially isolated outings, 2021 has been unlike any other year in history. It has taught us to never take anything for granted again. It’s important to recognize and celebrate your wins. The problem with not doing so is that we lose motivation, and motivation is what keeps us on track…

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Taking on IoT field alone, I can venture into all aspects of life – Rosemary Agbozo, Miss.Africa Digital, Kumasi Hive Trainee

Ms. Rosemary Agbozo a recent graduate at the Kumasi Hive Miss.Africa Digital sponsored training speaks to us about her experience learning how to do coding and programming Give a general experience with Miss.Africa Digital sponsored, Kumasi Hive training & how your digital skills were enhanced. What was most challenging? I am Rosemary Agbozo, a second-year computer engineering student in Kwame…

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My perception of involvement of #WomenInTech has been enhanced, after Miss.Africa Sponsored Training- Edem Gadabor

Miss.Africa Voices spoke to Gadabor Afua Marian Edem about her experience during the Miss.Africa Digital sponsored training at Kumasi Hive; Give a general experience with Miss. Africa Digital Sponsored, Kumasi Hive training and how your digital skills were enhanced. What was most challenging? All I had in common with graphic design before I started training with Kumasi Hive was interest.…

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Women in technology within Africa is reason why tech skills trainings are important- Trainer, Ecosol Seychelles

Zach Kafuko speaks of his experience of teaching the session on the “hardware hackathon at the Eco-Sol Miss.Africa Digital sponsored training. Ecosol runs the ‘Full STEM Ahead!’ project for girls in Seychelles. Below is the conversation Highlight your general experience with the program? The program was well organised and perhaps long overdue. This could be seen from  the enthusiastic participation…

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Mobile App Coding: ”Women, don’t bend to threats”- Maurine

Miss.Africa Voices spoke to Ms. Mwaniki about her mobile App training experience at Miss.Africa.  She was among the top 3 women who’s Apps won the Mobile App Training. 1. Give us your general experience with Miss.Africa sponsored, eMobilis training basing a bias on women in tech in Kenya & how your digital skills were enhanced. I am a third year…

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WomeninTech: “If you can dream it, you can have it…”- Bukola Gbadamosi, Project Officer, The AboCoders

Bukola Gbadamosi speaks of her experience of teaching  how to code using Python, JavaScript, CSS & HTML Python at AboCoders Q1: How did the Miss Africa Seed Fund enhance AboCoders’ initiatives and activities of supporting girls in STEM? Bukola: The Miss.Africa Seed Fund has enhanced AboCoders initiatives and activities of supporting girls in STEM by financially enabling us to introduce,…

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“The Miss.Africa Sponsored, AboCoders training has boosted my interest in computers .”- ONWUDIWE God’sfavour

  Q1: Give us a general experience with Miss Africa sponsored AboCoders training and how your digital skills were enhanced ONWUDIWE: Before I became a beneficiary and started training here at AboCoders, my previous knowledge of the computer was very little (basically primary school knowledge) and I didn’t know how to handle a computer or what to do with it.…

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“The digital world is not only a man’s world…” – Rejoice Aikohi, Project Officer, The Abocoders

Rejoice Aikohi, one of the trainers at Abocoders highlights how the Miss.Africa Seed Funding has been of great help in enhancing her digital skills through training. Q1: How did the Miss Africa Seed Fund enhance AboCoders’ initiatives and activities of supporting girls in STEM? Rejoice: The Miss Africa Seed Funding made provision for the AboCoders team to attend trainings that…

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“Computer programming skills is a set of knowledge that can be learnt by anyone…”- Fateh Nguemo, Mentor, Abocoders

 Miss.Africa Voices spoke to Fateh Nguemo about her experience during the Miss.Africa sponsored training at Abocoders Q1: How did the Miss Africa Seed Fund enhance Abocoders’ initiatives and activities of supporting girls in STEM? Fateh: The Miss Africa Seed Fund made provision for the purchase of better equipment to create a better learning environment for the girls in STEM being…

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“Women must encourage themselves to seek digital knowledge and use it to solve societal problems”- Amina

Question 1: Give a general experience with Miss.Africa sponsored AboCoders training and how your digital skills were enhanced Amina: I have learnt how to code in HTML, CSS and JS and my typing has improved tremendously. Before, I didn’t have any form of information about computers but am greatly I can now easily embrace the digital novelty with the acquired skills…

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