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#STEM Careers Campaign: Identifying the Problem

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Over the last decade, several African countries has gained the world’s attention as emerging innovation hubs. We have seen technologies like M-Pesa, Mellowcabs electric minicabs and Saavyloo pedal-operated waterless toilets, created by STEM entrepreneurs to address some of the real challenges faced on the continent. To maintain this trend, there is a need, across the continent, for greater emphasis on hands-on STEM education that bridges the gap between theory, entrepreneurship and STEM innovation. Additionally, given the realities of global warming, natural resource depletion, energy crises, and environmental degradation, it is critical that STEM solutions to development challenges are sustainable. Innovations should not only create greater efficiencies to produce financial gains or simplify and improve our lives, but must also reduce and/or reverse environmental impacts, so future generations can continue to adequately provide for their needs. GE has excelled as a leader in thi...

Company Program Lagos 2015 Photos Continued...

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Girls Senior Secondary Grammar School, Obalende, Lagos. Liberty Bells College, Ajah, Lekki, Lagos. Fountain Heights Secondary School, Surulere, Lagos Kuramo College, Victoria Island, Lagos. Government College, Maroko, Lagos. Akande Dahunsi, Senior High School, Ikoyi, Lagos. Aunty Ayo Comprehensive, Secondary School Ikoyi, Lagos. Caro Favored College with Mr. Tunji Eleso     

JAN student Artwork and Progress: Brookstone College, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

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  DNA Strands made from used calendars By Miss. Sodueari Petrina Graham-Douglas Executive Director, Brook Designs Ltd Brookstone Secondary School, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria . This is the work of Miss. Sodueari Petrina Graham-Douglas. She is 16 years old, and hails from a family of seven. Her father is an Architect and her mother is a Legal Practitioner, and acknowledges how fortunate she is to have two parents with such unique professions. From a very young age, Sodueari followed her father to building sites at an early age where she was brought face to face with his profession.   As a person, everything she does comes from an Architectural and Interior Designer standpoint. With the support of her Father she gained a lot of experience in her chosen field as in Architecture by interning, while simultaneously building her University portfolio. Sodueari has found Art to be an invaluable part of her life as it enriches her mind and acts as ...

Tour of LBS

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Lagos Business School is undoubtedly one of the most tranquil learning environments in Nigeria. LBS could easily be mistaken for a Fine Art's institute with the architectural detail and artwork all over the campus.