C-C Pro holds Teen-Tech Nigeria Mentorship Program in Abuja

The Child Cyber Protection (C-C Pro) is holding the Teen-Tech Nigeria Mentorship Program and also launch its Young Cybersecurity Ambassador Award.

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The Teen-Tech Nigeria Mentorship Program is part of Nigeria’s participation in the World Creativity and Innovation Day, a global UN day annually to raise awareness around the importance of creativity and innovation in problem solving with respect to advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The Teen-Tech Nigeria Mentorship Program aims to provide secondary school students with mentorship, guidance, and resources to harness their creativity and innovation in the field of information technology. Through this program, students will participate in workshops, hands-on activities and mentorship sessions designed to enhance their digital literacy, problem-solving skills, a higher sense of cybersecurity awareness, and develop an entrepreneurial mind-set.

Guest-mentors include Prof Nentawe Yilwatda, technocrat and politician; and Dr Chuks Ekwueme, founder and chairman of Uniccon Group, creators of Omeife, Africa’s first humanoid robot

“Designed to promote Creativity and Innovation in our education system, will host 200 ICT students from secondary and higher education centres of learning and teens from Orphanages within Abuja, Nasarawa and Niger States. It is a gathering of subject-matter experts and stakeholders to further anchor the management of young Nigerians in cyberspace,” said Delmwa Gogwim, Co-Founder and CEO of C-C Pro, an organisation promoting healthy interaction of young people and technology,

Adding: “Teen-Tech Nigeria Mentorship Program is part of the build-up programmes to our flagship annual event: Nigerian Teen Cyber Festival (ngTeenCyberFest 2024). The 2024 edition is riding on the success of that of 2023 and will hold inside Baze University, Thursday 26^th, September as part of this year’s global celebration of the International Day for Access to Universal Information.”