MakerHER-Space Expands to Northern Nigeria Lesley Tarabina our Curiculum Development Officer was recently in Abuja to facilitate our train the trainer TOT workshop for instructors of the programme in Northern-Nigeria which is part of the next expansion phase of...
ABRAHAM RAYMOND PENS DOWN HIS IT4ALL EXPERIENCE Abraham Raymond is our Instructor for IT4All an IT inclusive programme for special people with developmental learning disabilities at the Children’s Developmental Centre in Lagos (CDC). He shed more light on his work at...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] W.TEC’s 13th Anniversary Message In 2008, W.TEC opened its doors and committed to a journey of raising the next generation of women technology creators, entrepreneurs and leaders. Our programmes have encompassed intensive technology...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Children’s Development Centre (CDC) in Lagos and the Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) has commenced their special partnership programme - Inclusive Technology for All (IT4All) for the 2021 calendar year. The...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The W.TEC after school programme girls (W.TEC Academy) in Kwara State has commenced classes for the 2021 session. The programme is held in public secondary schools at Offa and Ilorin in Kwara State. The intervention initiative for...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Women's Technology Empowerment Center (W.TEC) celebrated the International Women's Day (IWD) with a virtual panelist session in collaboration with United Nations Information Centres (UNIC), Lagos on March 8, 2021 by 12pm. The...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We are glad to announce the nomination of W.TEC's MakeHER Space project for the coveted 2021 #WSISPrizes in the Capacity Building Category, the 4th category for the awards. Our MakeHER Space Project made the shortlist of 360...
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...
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 International Women’s Day: Women in leadership:...
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 Nigeria many won’t...
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 February....
Lagos – Nigeria Februrary 27, 2018: The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) hosted an event at the ongoing Social Media Week Lagos 2018 programme. The programme: DIY fundraising: all you need to know about online...
Lagos, Nigeria – 7th August, 2017: The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre – W.TEC recently held its 10th Girls Technology Camp from July 23 – August 5 in Lagos, Nigeria. The camp concluded with a graduation ceremony on Saturday,...
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...