Laureates Science Innovation and Education Initiative
Also known as Ebonyi Laureates. A community of Ebonyians bridging the human capital gap in Ebonyi.
Activities
Improving Ebonyi representation in STEM
Date: Dec 6, 2024
Resource Persons :Janet Colette-Okike and Matthew Renze
Webinar Link : Improving Ebonyi Representation in STEM _STEMEbonyi-20241206_170649-Meeting Recording.mp4
DataCamp Scholarship Winners Orientation
Date: October 28, 2023
Resource Persons : Bibian Pius-Urum and Eghosa Lucky Emunwen
Webinar Recording : Laureates SIE Meeting-20231028_170832-Meeting Recording.mp4
Scholar's Homecoming
In 2023 We launched the Scholars HomeComing
An initiative designed to equip emerging scholars with the insights necessary for professional advancement, featuring established academics as guest speakers.
2023 Scholars Home Coming
Theme: The Competitive Scholar; Research and Publications
Date: May 6 2023
Resource Persons : Prof Kingsley Ukwaja and Nnaemeka Phil Eke-Okocha
Webinar Link : The Competitive Scholar Research and Publications.mp4
2024 Scholars Home Coming
Theme Hacking Grad school
Date: June 8 2024
Resource Persons : Ngozi Nwebonyi and Samuel Akuma
Webinar Link : Hacking Grad School.mp4
STEM Club Meetings
STEM Club Meetings (Special editions)While our STEM Club meets for internal sessions, our Special Editions invite industry experts to share exclusive insights into their professional career paths. Internal meetings are not recorded but special editions are recorded. Their links are below:
Beyound Software
Date: Feb 3, 2024
Resource Persons : Ziko Abara
Webinar Recording: Recap: BEYOND SOFTWARE Saturday, February 3 | Meeting | Microsoft Teams
STEM Club Meeting: Graduation Edition
Date: May 27, 2023
Resource Person : Heather Renze
Webinar Link : Stem club meeting Graduation of DataCamp Scholars.mp4
Learning to Earning
Date: February 25, 2023
Resource Persons : DataCamp Social Impact Manager Nathaniel Taylor-Leach
Webinar Link : Laureates SIE Meeting-20230223_190135-Meeting Recording.mp4
STEM Club Meeting: First Anniversary Edition
Date: October 29 2022
Resource Persons : Chisom promise, Blessing Nwojiji, Abubakar Gbadamisi
Other Activities
In 2022, Laureates SIE became an official DataCamp donates partner. In the first year, we collaborated with the American-based tech giants to offer 70 free Datacamp licences to Ebonyians and Nigerians with disability. We are glad to announce that we have remained parners with DataCamp for the past four years, distributing over 400 licenses in the past three years. This year (2025), we have secured an additional 200 licenses to offer to Ebonyians, Nigerians with disabilities, and health researchers in Ebonyi State.
This partnership was borne out of the need to ameliorate the cost of online education to indigent Ebonyians and deserving Nigerians at large. We also hope it empowers the beneficiaries to develop world class tech skills capable of competing in the global marketplace.
To find out more on data camp donates, click here.
Laureates SIE (also known as Ebonyi laureates) has a free scholarship guidance group for Ebonyians where we share scholarship opportunities and resources for scholarships.
We acknowledge that Education is a way to combat poverty in Ebonyi state and yet education costs a fortune that the poor cannot afford. This is why we created a free scholarship guidance group for Ebonyians to aid them access free education.
We have a total of 122 members in our scholarship group
We have also held a total of two free scholarship webinars targeted at the Chevening, commonwealth and other scholarships.
On September 24 2021, Laureates science Innovation and Education Initiative- Laureates SIE, also known as Ebonyi Laureates had a maiden webinar titled “Bootstrapping Social Media for Professional Development”.
Our speakers were Mr Raymond Okpani and Dr Abanni Sampson
The webinar was aimed at mobilizing Ebonyians to take advantage of the numberous opportunities available via social media
In October 2022 to mark the 25th Anniversary of Ebonyi state, Laureates SIE (also known as Ebonyi Laureates) launched the #Ebonyi25MB movement.
This movement mobilized Ebonyians to apply for and amplify opportunities offered on the internet using just #25MB of Data.
We also shared various platforms for open access learning such as Freecodecamp, Solo learn and Harvard's CS50.
We launched our tech club(now renamed to our STEM club same month. The STEM club serves as an incubator for budding STEM talents in Ebonyi.
On December 6-12 2021, Laureates SIE (also known as Ebonyi laureates) marked the computer Science Education week where we shared open access resources for learning digital skilss and launched our second and largest learning cohort; A cohort of learners learning Web development/Javascript via a Larger cohort on class central using the Freecodecamp curriculum.
While our cohort members did not complete their tasks, we drew lessons from this and these lessons are currently powering our current learning cohorts in various tech scholarships.
In 2022, during the Ebonyi Social Media Of Social Good awards, Laureates SIE (als o known as Ebonyi laureates) was nominated for Most content reliable social media group/ page.
While we didn't win, our nomination is a pointer to our impact in Ebonyi state.
In 2021, we had a free smartphone bootcamp training for Ebonyians and Nigerians
This was done because a good number of Nigerians do not have access to laptops.
The training was aimed at teaching them how to utilize their mobile devices for economic empowerment.
Over 100 people benefitted from the training.
Laureates SIE (also known as Ebonyi laureates) launched our #Techfreely series (now renamed STEMfreely series) where we share resources for open access STEM Education on our social media pages.
We also launched our #Scholarfreely series where we share scholarship opportunities and resources for scholarships.
Through these series we aim to utilize the power of social media to promote open access education and learning opportunities for Ebonyians and Nigerians