Category: Science & Technology

Indigenous Labs have emerged first place winner of the 2021 Abuja Tech Friday Hackathon organised by Art Tech District (ATD) in collaboration with the Civic Innovation Lab (Civicilab).

This hackathon is an opportunity for Developers, Tech Startups, Tech enthusiasts and Undergraduates (in Universities across Nigeria) to propose and build software solutions to determine the best way to walk through museum exhibitions using AR (Augmented Reality) or VR (Virtual Reality) or a Web Application, with the aim of synchronizing Nigerian Art and History with digital solutions.

The maiden edition of the Abuja Tech Friday is a series of hackathons to create a platform for “Using Technology To Tell Nigerian History” and will be called the MUSEUMHACK.

Indigenous Labs – proud lovers of culture whose solution enabled uploads, updates, and registration processes; a full system in one. Their solution leverages on providing traction and no-contact experiences which enables navigation in, around and out of the museum-freely, truly built for times like this. They also demonstrated how museums can become the go-to for teaching kids history and empowering institutions. The fact that these things can be achieved using web links and not an application was another factor that distinguished this team of two.

Indigenous Labs receive the grand prize of ₦500,000 seed fund for further development of the solution.

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Ecobank Nigeria, First City Monument Bank Limited (FCMB) and Union Bank have won the Starsight Sustainability Award 2020, which recognises business enterprises for their efforts in renewable energy and energy efficiency.

The award was presented on April 6^th, 2021 in Lagos, by renewable energy provider Starsight Energy, which targets corporate clients that have installed solar systems in at least 100 of their branches.

A selection criterion far exceeded by Ecobank Nigeria, where Starsight Energy has deployed solar systems in 150 branches across the West African country, with an installed solar and hybrid capacity of 11 megawatts (MW).

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Polystar Electronics has emerged winner of the 2021 African Quality Achievement Awards as ‘Africa’s Best Quality Household Electronics Company of the Decade’.

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Team Queens’ Foris Labs, a team of seven Nigerian students has emerged overall winner of the Diamond Challenge Global Prize Award 2021.

Team Queens’ Foris Labs, a team of seven students from Queen of the Rosary College, Onitsha comprising of Chisom Iwuno, Amara Okechukwu, Okoye Chidinma, Nnaji Mmesoma, Mgbafulu Sandra, Anozie Stephanie and Iheator was led by their mentors – John Onuigbo and Kyrian Obikwelu.

The team won a $1,500 cash prize along with other prizes including further mentorship, etc.

Dyslexia Genius, a team of three students from China/USA emerged in second place.

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“Participatory Research For Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study In African Languages” has emerged winner of the Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year 2021.

The award was presented by Jimmy Wales, the Founder of Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation.

The 18-page research work published in November 2020 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics) was undertaken by a total of 47 authors and the Masakhane community with about 18 Nigerians directly involved.

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Stellamaris Onyegbule has been awarded the Most Innovative Optometry Student in Nigeria at the inaugural Damian Echendu award.

The award seeks to reward, encourage innovation and creativity among optometry students in the country by supporting solution-driven innovations relevant to the practice of optometry.

Stellamaris Onyegbule, a student of the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) received the award for her “Optoblink Innovation”, which is a spectacle mounted device, helps patients with dry eye due to computer vision syndrome.

Stellamaris expressed her sincere gratitude to God, her parents, brothers, her  Professors (Professor E.C Esenwah, Professor N.C Ikoro, Professor O.U Amaechi), her Head of Department – Dr. Y.C Azuamah, and the rest of her lecturers.

Team Foris Labs has been named winner of the Stanford Center on Longevity 2020-2021 Design Challenge competition receiving $10,000 prize after defeating 222 other entries from 37 countries over the course of the competition.

The Foris Labs team comprised of John Onuigbo from Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Nigeria (COOU) and Kyrian Obikwelu from Federal University of Technology Owerri, Nigeria (FUTO).

The team experienced the difficulty of trying to learn science lab skills while online schooling with poor internet connectivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. They presented their design for an offline platform that simulates a science lab for high school students, in which they can perform individual or group experiments.

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