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clubs, the girls learn to create and innovate with technology by building and making websites, web applications, video games, films, and other digital content. In the words of Adeola Akinyemiju, the Finance Director, W.TEC "is training girls on electronic and digital circuit technologies, web designs
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W.TEC's work includes technology-training programmes for girls through intensive girls-only camps and technology clubs in W.TEC academy. During the camps and
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to bridge the gender gap in the engineering space." The organisation advocates against and works to break down
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to write to a young person or group of young people of his own choosing. He chose the girls of W.TEC.
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Over the years, W.TEC has extended its scope, reaching over 26,000 participants and expanding into
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W.TEC Make Her Space Team Kwara during their Graduation Ceremony at Ilorin Kwara State.
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and other African countries. She founded the organization in 2008 in
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Letters to Young People Who Inspire Us, By Six Prominent People
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Gender Equality Mainstreaming – Technology (GEM-TECH) Award
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that provides technology education for women and girls in
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A picture of W.TEC Make Her Space Team Kwara during their Graduation Ceremony at Ilorin Kwara State.
non-profit organization
Nigeria
camps
Oreoluwa Lesi
gender gap
Information and communications technology
Nigeria
Lagos
Kwara
Anambra
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Internet safety
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gender stereotypes
Tim Berners-Lee
World Wide Web
Time
Tim Berners-Lee
Plan International
International Telecommunication Union

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