JAN Newsletter | June 2018 - Junior Achievement Nigeria

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INSIDE JAN: JUNE 2018.

Features

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S LETTER

JAN SPECIAL PROGRAMS

STUDENT COMPETITIONS

MONTH HIGHLIGHTS

JANewsThe Junior Achievement Nigeria

Newsletter

COVER PHOTO: Simi Nwogugu, pictured with

students of Aunty Ayo Girls Secondary School, Ikoyi.

Source: HBS Alumni Bulletin, June 2018

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Events and Programs

3 E D ' S L E T T E RExecutive Director 's Opening Message

9 O R A C L E S T E M C A M PSponsored Annual Tech Event

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12 R C O Y J O S 2 0 1 8Highl ights

13 C O N T A C T U SContact and Active Links

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S LETTER

By Simi Nwogugu

the Regional Company ofthe Year (RCOY)competitions also happeningthis month and next. Speaking of RCOYcompetitions, I’m writing thisletter from the Abuja airport,where I’m waiting to boardthe plane back to Lagos afterwitnessing another excitinggroup of studententrepreneurs battle torepresent their region as thebest student company at theupcoming National Companyof the Year competition. Iwas blown away by theinnovative products andservices on display, rangingfrom a group of students whohad used Zobo to develop anindicator paper that workedeven better than litmus paperin their science classes toanother group who haddeveloped a websiteconnecting farmers toconsumers across the countryand made over twelve millionnaira (yes, N12, 000,000) inrevenues in less than ninemonths!!!

JAN, in partnership withTechQuest, held fourhackathons in Ife, Nsukka,Kaduna and Uyo to findyoung tech talent to help usbuild out some major digitalinitiatives we are embarkingon ahead of our 20thanniversary next year. Over 170 teams applied, outof which 61 teams wereshortlisted, from whichemerged four winning teamsthat received cash prizes andswag from our sponsors. Theoverall winner will beselected from the final four inearly July at a ceremony inLagos and I can’t wait tobegin working with theseyoung geniuses who will helptransform JAN over the nextyear! Thank you so much toour partners for making ithappen. Earlier this month, BunmiBanjo, who heads the DigitalSkills for Africa program atGoogle reached out to ask ifwe would like to incorporatedigital skills training in ourentrepreneurial programs atsecondary schools acrossNigeria and we said aresounding “YEAH!!!”. Now we have JAN staff andGoogle trainers going fromschool to school, city to city,to conduct digital skillstraining just in time tohelp our Company Programstudents develop andimplement their digitalmarketing strategy ahead of

I AM ALSO IMMENSELY

GRATEFUL TO ALL THE

VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE

BEEN WORKING HARD TO

TEACH JAN PROGRAMS IN

SCHOOLS.

June has been such anationwide-activity-packed month that weare just giddy withexcitement – andpossibly a little dizzy! Three projects had mycolleagues and me goingaround the country thismonth in unprecedentedfashion: hackathons,youth entrepreneurshipcompetitions and digitalskills training!

DEAR FRIENDS,

RCOY ABUJA 2018

T h a n k y o u f o rp a r t n e r i n gw i t h u s t o

i m p r o v e t h el i v e s o f

N i g e r i a ’ sy o u t h .

Finally, I would like to thankthe writers of the HarvardBusiness School (HBS)Alumni Office who featuredmy work with JuniorAchievement Nigeria in thismonth’s issue of their alumnimagazine. I spent a week in June on theHBS campus at an executiveeducation program for MBAalumni and it was reallyspecial to be presented with acopy of the magazine withthe 2-page spread (see photoabove). One of our most popularprograms, the Venture inManagement Program, isfrom HBS so I look forwardto working with the school todevelop more programs forour young entrepreneurs inNigeria. Thank you for partneringwith us to improve the livesof Nigeria’s youth.

We have had three RCOYs so far, in Lagos, Abuja and Jos, allcities in which Citi sponsors the Company Program. Next up,Ebonyi, Abia and Anambra, cities in which FirstBank sponsorsthe Company Program. Did I already mention that #WeHaveTheBestBoardMembers???In July, we will also have RCOYs in Port Harcourt (also sponsoredby Citi) and in Osogbo and Ibadan, sponsored by our newestPartner-in-Development, the ACT Foundation, the high-impactfoundation set up by Access Bank. To say we are grateful forthese high-impact partnerships would be the biggestunderstatement of the century! I am also immensely grateful to all the volunteers who have beenworking hard to teach JAN programs in schools this month –from the various alumni paying it forward as volunteers andjudges at our RCOY competitions to the corporate volunteersfrom IFC and UPS, who have partnered with us to conduct the JABe Entrepreneurial program in public secondary schools acrossLagos. I was particularly impressed by the passion displayed bythe IFC Country Manager, Eme Essien, who first served as a JAvolunteer when she worked in the United States. The girls atGbara Secondary School, Jakande, Lekki, could not bear to let goof her by the end of the program and she couldn’t let go of them!

Warm Regards,

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GIVING BACK IFC NIGERIA STAFF TEACH JAN PROGRAM IN SECONDARY SCHOOL

JAN SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Staff of International Finance

Corporation (IFC) Nigeria were at a JAN

partner school, Gbara Community

Secondary School, Lekki on the 6th of

June, 2018, where they taught the JA Be

Entrepreneurial program as part of their

Volunteers Day activity.

Led by the Country Manager, Mrs. Eme

Essien, twenty members of IFC staff

interacted with over 300 students,

empowering them with practical

business skills as well as motivating

them with their own individual stories.

In addition to teaching the JA program,

the staff committed to adopting the

school and providing infrastructural

support for the students’ learning. We

thank IFC for partnering with JAN to

prepare our youth for a successful

future.


PARTNERSHIPJAN AND GOOGLE

IMPLEMENT DIGITAL

SKILLS TRAINING IN

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Junior Achievement Nigeria has partneredwith Google to implement the Google“Digital Skills for Africa” program recentlyexpanded to include secondary schools.The goal of the program is in line withJAN’s goal of providing its studentcompanies with digital marketing skills topromote their products and services tocustomers. Trainings are currently being conducted inmultiple schools in over ten cities acrossNigeria. Following from this, studentcompanies would also compete for the“Best Digital Marketing Campaign Award”at the National Company of the Yearcompetition in October. We thank Googlefor empowering our students with digitalskills and working with us to raise ageneration of digitally savvy youth.

HACKATHONS: JAN CONCLUDESNATIONWIDE HACKATHON INPARTNERSHIP WITH TECHQUESTLast month, JAN in partnership with TechQuest Nigeriaset out to organize four hackathons for young developersto identify young tech talent to join the JAN team inbuilding digital solutions for scaling impact. The nationwide hackathons took place in Ife, Kaduna,Nsukka and Uyo, with Ife kicking off in May and Kaduna,Nsukka and Uyo taking place in June. From Kaduna, thewinning team of Nafiu Garba and Ibrahim Isa, presenteda mobile app that featured current technologies likeChatbots and Artificial Intelligence, displaying a knack forresearch and team work.

The duo of AniEmmanuel Linus andOfoegbu UgochukwuValentine emergedwinners at the Nsukkahackathon. Their softwareapplication met allrequirements and had thebest User Interface. Thefinal hackathon whichtook place in Uyo sawEnya Emmanuel andNsikak Emmanuelemerge winners after 48hours of programming.Their solution remainedthe best out of otherparticipants, featuringgreat app features, and auser friendly interface.

We remaingrateful to

TechQuest forthe partnership.

Following thesehackathons, the bestteams would be selectedand invited to Lagos forinduction into the JANworkforce followingwhich they will beginimplementation of theirsolutions. We remain grateful toTechQuest for thepartnership.


United Parcel Service (UPS) has sponsoredthe delivery of “JA Be Entrepreneurial”program in five secondary schools acrossLagos State. The program is currentlybeing taught by dedicated volunteers whohave been trained by JAN staff on theprogram delivery. Through the help of these volunteers, thisprogram has been completed in FalomoHigh School, Ikoyi Lagos, KuramoSecondary School, Victoria Island Lagos,Herbert Macaulay Girls School, Yaba,Lagos and Government College, WaziriIbrahim, Victoria Island, Lagos reachingover 200 public school students to date.We thank UPS for being a partner in thedevelopment of our youth.

PARTNER IN DEVELOPMENTUPS SPONSORS JA BE

ENTREPRENEURIAL

PROGRAM IN FIVE

SCHOOLS


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On the 13th and 14th of June, 2018,

about 50 students from the JAN

school network participated in a 2-

day STEM Innovation Camp

organized in partnership with

Oracle and the Co-Creation Hub

(CCHub).

The camp was designed to increase

digital literacy and coding skills in

young students and is a partnership

that has run for the past three years.

This year, students were trained on

how to use SQL programming

databases to store information,

which can be used for solving

crimes and creating solutions to

problems. The students were

divided into teams and tasked with

designing frameworks for software

applications using the SQL

programming language.

The third place winners designed an

application that can help eradicate the

diversion of funds intended for

agricultural purposes. The second place

winners designed an application through

which potential JAN volunteers could sign

up and get assigned to schools to teach.

The first place winners designed a software

application that can be used by the

government and security agencies to keep

track of homeless people in the country.

With the application, families can also

track their lost family members, or adopt a

new person into their home. Facilitators

from Oracle were very impressed with the

students who in two days were able design

such brilliant solutions. We thank the

Oracle Academy for this partnership which

is in line with our goal of raising more

digitally savvy youth.



RCOY 2018 LAGOS HIGHLIGHTS

Students displayed very innovativeproducts from headphones that can beshared simultaneously by four peoplefrom Vibz Naija, a student companyfrom Victoria Island Secondary School,to a flash drive + lighting phonecharger from Voltage, a studentcompany from Day Waterman College,to a mobile, rechargeable traffic lightfor road wardens from InventiveExplorers, a student company fromCaro Favored Schools, Ajegunle. It was really a great sight to behold andfilled us all with hope for Nigeria’sfuture. Special thanks to our awesomejudges for doing a great job and wecongratulate all winners especially thefirst place winner, Inventive Explorersfrom Caro Favored Schools.

The search for the best studentcompany to represent Nigeria at theJunior Achievement Africa Companyof the Year competitions kicked offthis month with the Lagos regionalcompetition. The event took place onthe 7th of June, 2018 with twelvestudent companies from elevenschools presenting their products andservices to judges Mrs. Leila Fowler-Amba of Vivian Fowler MemorialCollege, our Executive Director Mrs.Simi Nwogugu, and Mr. BoyeOshinaga of Riby Finance (an alum ofthe Company Program). The students were so amazing that ourjudges could not pick only one winnerto advance to the Nationalcompetition so they picked three!


JAN STUDENT COMPETITIONS

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The JAN Regional Company of the

Year Competition took place in

Abuja on the 29th of June, 2018 with

about 20 student companies

participating. The judges: Mr. John

Ede, Miss Chidinma Obi, Mrs.

Rahila Aborisade and Mr. Joseph

Otaru watched as each student

company presented their products

and services and were impressed at

the level of creativity and

innovation they displayed.

The first place winners were

students from Government Girls

Secondary School, Abaji Abuja who

also won the award for best CSR

project. They created an online

market where they sold farm

produce from local farmers directly

to customers. They also developed

an app which is currently live on

the Google Play Store: Farmers

Market.

The second place winners were students

from Government Science Secondary

School Abaji Abuja who produced a Vacuum

Cleaner as well as interior decoration

designs, made from periwinkle shells, which

could be used in homes and offices.

Students of Community Staff Secondary

School Asokoro Abuja emerged third place

winners. Their products included Lamps,

Eggs Crates, a Flower Vase made from

plastic materials and Table Mats made from

Ankara materials.

The prize for Most Innovative Student

Company went to students from

Government Science Secondary School,

Pyakasa, Maitama. They produced an

indicator that can be used in science based

experiments from dried Roselle (Hibiscus

Sabdariffa) leaves.

We are proud of our Abuja students and look

forward to welcoming them to Lagos for the

National Company of the Year Competition

set to take place in October.


http://www.therealfarmersmarket.com.ng/


RCOY 2018 JOS HIGHLIGHTS

The JAN Regional Company ofthe Year Competition tookplace in Jos on the 21st of June,2018 with about 16 studentcompanies participating. Thejudges: Mr. Iliya Vongjen, Mr.Kamsen Mordecai Dapim, andMr. Dakadieng Ayuba Adams,watched as each studentcompany presented theirproducts and services and wereimpressed at the level ofcreativity and innovation theydisplayed. The third place winners werestudents from FederalGovernment College, Jos whoproduced an electric blowingmachine and a light stand. Thesecond place winners werestudents from St. Louis College,Jos who developed a powergenerating device from carbatteries. The winning studentcompany was the team fromGovernment Secondary School,Tudun Wada, who producedcooking gas made from cowdung and a fruits dryerpowered by solar energy. We are proud of our Josstudents and look forward towelcoming them to Lagos forthe National Company of theYear Competition set to takeplace in October.


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