SAN FRANCISCO, May 16, (THEWILL) – Microsoft Nigeria, in collaboration with the Future Project and The Zariah Elizabeth Foundation (TZE Foundation), has revealed that it will empower 6000 public school students in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, with basic skills in Kodu, Minecraft, HTML and CSS.
According to Akindayo Akindolani, TZE Foundation Executive Director, the training of the students will last for 10 days while further training will be provided for teachers of schools at the foundation’s HUB and through the Microsoft Youthworks portal Aiki Nigeria.
The initiative, dubbed Code2Create, seeks to introduce students to the world of coding at an early stage and start a code club in the schools with support from partners.
“We believe that learning programming skills will benefit children in other ways, whatever their ultimate career – almost akin to the reasoning for giving children the chance to learn a musical instrument or foreign language,” Akindolani said.
“One of our major objective is towards building the next set of developers that will eventually emerged as the next Bill Gate, Mark Zuckerberg that Nigeria and Africa will be proud of.”
“At Microsoft, we believe if we can inspire, enable and provide a conducive environment through digital literacy and coding skills, we are securing the nation’s future,” Olusola Amusan, Citizenship Manager, Microsoft Nigeria, said.
“The ‘Code2Create’ initiative is part of the #1millionFingersCoding campaign of Microsoft and will empower 6000 youths in the FCT among which there might be the leaders of tomorrow’s technology empires, adding to GDP and providing limitless opportunities.”
Story by David Oputah
