Catherinemary Nneamaka Ugoji, a computer science graduate has emerged as the overall best graduating student 2017 also with a first class degree at Godfrey Okoye University during the convocation ceremony held on the 10th of February, 2018.
Catherinemary Nneamaka Ugoji has proved to be a top academic from her formative years. She attended Rose Bethel Primary school, Anambra State and further proceeded to Loretto Special Science school, Adazi-Nnukwu, Anambra State. She graduated as one of the best students from her secondary school; Loretto Special Science school, Adazi-Nnukwu, Anambra with 9 A’s (Distinction).
Catherinemary Nneamaka Ugoji whose ambition is to specialize in Artificial Intelligence also took part in pagentry with her emergence as Queen of her University, Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu in Nigeria at age 17 in 2014. She eventually won the Miss Coal City Nigeria Beauty Pageant in 2015 at age 18.
At the convocation ceremony, she gave her valedictory speech titled “The Romantic Face of Programming” where she explained her fascination with programming, encouraging women to embrace the beauty of programming and computing and to specialize on it.
She was awarded a number of prizes by the University for being the Overall best graduating student for the 2017 graduands, Best in her faculty (Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences), Best in her department (Department of Computer and Mathematics) and Best in her program (Computer Science).
