Five school girls from Regina Pacis Secondary School, Onitsha, Anambra State Nigeria who represented Nigeria and Africa at the World Technovation Challenge in the Silicon Valley in San Francisco, US last night won the Gold Medal in the contest.

The team, led by Uchenna Onwuamaegbu Ugwu defeated representatives of other technological giants including the USA, Spain, Turkey, Uzbekistan and China to clinch the gold medal.

The Anambra girls include:

1 Promise Nnalue
2 Jessica Osita
3 Nwabuaku Ossai
4 Adaeze Onuigbo
5 Vivian Okoye

They won the Challenge with a mobile application called the FD-Detector which they developed to help tackle the Challenge of fake pharmaceutical products in Nigeria.

Under the tutelage of Uchenna Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu the CEO of Edufun Technik STEM, the Golden Girls spent five months researching and developing FD-Detector which swept through over 2000 competing applications to get to the finals in San Francisco.

Technovation is a programme that offers girls around the world the opportunity to learn the programming skills they need to emerge as tech-entrepreneurs and leaders.

Every year, girls are invited to identify a problem in their communities, and then challenge them to solve them by developing Andriod applications that would address those problems.

115 countries participated in the qualifiers but only 12 teams from all over the world were selected as finalists for the pitch in Silicon Valley.

The girls will also be attending Field trips, life-changing workshops including a networking session during their one week stay in USA.

The Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano had personally sent them off to the US in a brief ceremony at the last Executive Council Meeting where he charged the girls to put Nigeria and Africa on the global technological map with their rare talent.

This goes to show that Nigeria can compete globally in eduction if the education sector receives adequate funding from the relevant authorities.

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I am are proud of them all.

Should I be the first to say IGBO AMAKA



NA DEM DEY RUSH US

This na the real developer..









Igbo amaka

IGBO KWENU!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to the brilliant girls.

Igbo Amaka.



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Sophisticated mourouns would have swarm upon this thread it was crime related to vent out their frustrations..

Imagine,since 2pm,still on one page!

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Lzaa immhotep shalomc onyeoga



Btw,coneheads now

Justiceleague1:
Congratulations to the brilliant girls.

Igbo Amaka.



Coneheads bad belle are nowhere to be found.
Sophisticated mourouns would have swarm upon this thread it was crime related to vent out their frustrations..

Imagine,since 2pm,still on one page!

Weekend owambe don spoil for coneheads be dat oo lolssss


Lzaa immhotep shalomc onyeoga



Btw,coneheads now

See dem again

It's actaully unfair to post on Nairaland. One got posted later (by 3.00pm) and was rushed to the front page. I don't really know how your front page posting policy works, but I'm off your threads.