MakeHer Space project is an initiative by W.TEC, designed to teach 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 STEAM.
Objectives:
•Teach the students to create technology and engineering-based solutions that solve problems in their communities.
•Help the young women hone their abilities to work in teams, as they will work in teams on technology and engineering-centered projects
•Help the young women develop marketable and practical skills in and an appreciation of technology, art design, engineering, maths and critical thinking.
•Connect the girls with and prepare them for further education and career opportunities in STEAM and/or entrepreneurship.

The project was initially planned to run as a face to face programme but was transformed to run in an online setting due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pilot programme which ran from May till November 2020 saw 88 girls through intensive training on Website Design, 3D Modelling, Video Marketing and Market Research and Analysis. Training held in 6 cohorts, 4 times a week with wonderful success stories from participants.

https://wtec.org.ng/make-her-space/

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We are currently working with educational institutions also whose staff are trained to work with us and also deliver it to their own students as time goes on. Also our trainned staff will be delivering similar sessions in other similar programmes of W.TEC

The programme is sustainable due to our technical capacity access to technology and it fits into other programmes we have been running for years.

The MakeHER Space program resonates with the WSIS values of promoting access to ICT skills towards socio economic development of the society. The programmes’ training session also serves as potentials for sources of income with the tech skills participant acquire eg website development. Finally, the programme provides equal opportunity to low income members of the community who wouldn’t have been able to afford similar expensive tech training sessions, in other words MakeHER Space by W.TEC is creating equal opportunity for many in the less privileged social class.