The Nigeria Association of Computing Students (NACOS) Obafemi Awolowo University on Saturday 30th of March, inaugurated an Innovation Hub – an initiative to facilitate more technological skills and development for students. The Innovation Hub is expected to be an avenue for students of the association and other students interested in learning about tech – giving them the space for free.
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The Innovation Hub will also cater for the mentorship of interested students including other programs as the hub has subset hubs such as: Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Product and Graphics Design. Students interested in any of these programs are expected to pick one and be mentored by students who are skilled in these areas and are already working with international organizations and brands.
According to the President of the NACOS, Olaniran Olarotimi in his welcome address, he stated that he reached out to these skilled students to dedicate their time to this program which will also serve as a way of them giving back to the society. He also noted that the skilled students are willing to teach anyone willing to learn, most especially NACOSites, however, the mentorship is not limited to the association alone as other interested students can join as well.
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This initiative is to build capacity and ensure that students learn skills for free and can easily reach out to their mentors whenever they have one issue or the other. The Director of Innovation, Abdulroheem Arogundade, while addressing the attendees at the inauguration, talked about the programs of the association which will later scale into conferences, seminars, workshops, and fundraising for students to get tools like laptops and other needed devices, and a hackathon at the end of the semester.
Also, at the innovation hub, an assessment will be done at the end of the semester, whereby the skills that have been acquired and the knowledge learnt will be used to solve societal problems and the idea will be pitched during the hackathon.
Five mentors were around at the inauguration and talked about the hub and how to make choices on each sub-hub easily. They also shared their journey and how they moved from being a beginner to becoming someone who has been able to carve a niche in the tech space and work for international brands and organizations.