Lagos, Nigeria – 9th February, 2018: The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) in conjunction with Facebook for the second time in a roll, marked 2018 Safer Internet Day on Wednesday, February 7th at New Era Girls’ Senior Secondary School,...
Picture of the best W.TEC Academy girls in the 10 schools Ibrahim Aishat is a 16-years-old SS1 student of Aiyetoro Senior Grammar School who lives with her dad (a business man) and her mother here in Lagos. Before joining the W.TEC Academy, she attended a...
Aaliyah Ovayoza Ibrahim (W.TEC Camp 2010)Very few experiences can one deem unforgettable. W-TEC Girls Technology Camp that held in the beautiful summer of 2010 is one of such experiences for me. In one word I would describe it as ‘unforgettable’, in two; it would be...
Cynthia Onyiye Nbani Life after the she can program has been pretty awesome for me. I was privileged to be one of the beneficiaries of the seed fund, which was given. I realized that the process of getting through all the classes was not just for my development but...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Lagos – Nigeria March 4, 2020: The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) is set to host a virtual panelist event to mark 2021 International Women’s Day. The event’s theme is in linewith the global theme for 2021...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Our #WCW this week is a Nigerian photojournalist, documentary photographer nurse and a humanitarian worker from Borno state. Her Instagram project @bitsofborno is a unique page which showcases the reality of life in some parts of...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] W.TEC is excited to announce her participation in the first-ever International Women’s Week campaign by GlobalGiving, the world’s biggest fund-raising platform for nonprofits. This campaign will run from Monday, March 8, at 0:00:00...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In February 2021, the Digital Generation Youth Project hosted an online training series titled 21st Century Skills and Recognition with Open Badges. The training lasted for 6 different days, from the 1st of February to the 17th of...
This factsheet depicts why we need more girls in Technology and related fields. A UNESCO report titled “Cracking the Code: Girls and Women in STEM”, highlights the fact that there are not enough girls in school and amongst the girls in school there is a...
Lagos, Nigeria – 1st September, 2020: W.TEC in making a case for more women in technology embarked on fact finding exercise to pool research findings facts to support the subject. Eventually a factsheet has been drawn up which clearly states why this is so. To this...
The Digital Generation Youth is a 2-year project aimed at developing new content, methods and activities to improve the quality of youth non-formal learning programmes. Through this project, organisations that work with young people in Nigeria, South Africa, Lithuania...
ABOUT THE MAKEHER SPACE: The MakeHer Spaces project will teach selected girls to create technology and engineering-based solutions that solve problems in their communities, provide information about career options and exposes them to women working successfully in...
Inclusive Technology for All Developmental disabilities affects many young people, impairing their experience in the classroom and hindering many aspects of their life. Increasingly; there is more focus on managing developmental disabilities through timely...
The MentorHER programme is a mentorship and leadership programme for female undergraduates studying Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) courses at Nigerian tertiary institutions. W.TEC’s MentorHer Programme is aimed at supporting young...
Past trainees and participants of W.TEC programmes graduate into the W.TEC Alumna Network. This network provides ongoing learning and mentoring opportunities, activities such as annual reunions and access to dedicated member-only mailing lists and social media...
The Staying Safe Online programme introduces and covers the foundation of digital security, where girls and young women learn strategies to stay safe online. This programme runs throughout the year, particularly during the: 1.) 16 Days of...
ABOUT THE ACADEMY: The W.TEC Academy is an afterschool technology club, which presents technology in an engaging way, with the aim of attracting more girls to pursue science and technology careers. The clubs target girls, aged 10 to 17 years, who attend public schools...
Early Innovators Camp (Tech Camp for Kids) The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) is now accepting application for the 2020 W.TEC Early Innovators Virtual Camp, a 4 weeks camp, opened to girls and boys aged 5 to 10 years old, which...
SHE CREATES NEXT (VIRTUAL CAMP FOR GIRLS) The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) is excited to present the 2020 edition of her She Creates Camp for girls. The award-winning girls STEAM – camp (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts &...
PRESS RELEASE The Women's Technology Empowerment Centre. 2 Babalola Gardens, off Freedom Way, Ikate - Lekki, Lagos. Tuesday February 16th 2021. W.TEC Announces the Return of W.TEC Academy to lagosW.TEC is excited to announce the return of her...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Press release The Women's Technology Empowerment Centre. 2 Babalola Gardens, off Freedom Way, Ikate - Lekki, Lagos. Tuesday February 16th 2021. W.TEC Announces the Appointment of New Advisory board Members The Women’s Technology...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]W.TEC’s Advisory Board serves as a critical community champion for the organisation. Members of the Advisory Board share their gifts in service to W.TEC’s mission by providing the organization with their professional expertise; their...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Press release Friday February 12th 2021 The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) collaborated with Lafarge Africa PLC to mark 2021 - International Day of Women and Girls in Science on Thursday February 11th with a virtual...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Proper and adequate guidance when choosing a career path has saved individuals from making wrong decisions or going into a professional sectors without essential information. As a means to propagate the career opportunities in STEM,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] On behalf of the partners of the international project Digital Generation Youth we are glad to invite you to participate in the international online training course ‘21ST CENTURY SKILLS AND RECOGNITION WITH OPEN BADGES’. Objectives:...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] W.TEC in 2020 supported the annual ‘’16 Days of Activism Against Violence Against Women’’ with a new campaign format which this time will be a continuous programme for W.TEC to put staying safe online on the front-burner. In the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Women's Technology Empowerment Center (W.TEC) via her MentorHer Programme held a webinar to help to further enlighten Mentees and other interested individuals. The December edition webinar was themed: Personal Development as a...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Our WCW this week is Yewande Sadiku, she is a distinguished investment banker from Nigeria and a Public Servant. She was appointed Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) in...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre(W.TEC) MentorHer programme2020 held her first monthly webinar for new set of Mentees on Thursday, November 19, 2020 which was centered on the topic: "THE CREATIVE ME - HOW TO DEVELOP THE...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The annual global campaign - “16 Days of Activism Against Violence Against Women” is here again. Slated for (November 25 – December 10) is set aside to create a sustained awareness for the fight against gender based violence. The 16...