UNIOSUN Awarded $10,000 USD Grant By Google

Osun State University, UNIOSU’s
Information Management and Technology
Centre (IMTC) gets $10,000 USD from
Search Engine Giant – Google. This is good one for the IMTC and the whole UNIOSUN
Community at large.
The Information Management and
Technology Centre (IMTC), Osun State
University has been awarded a Ten
Thousand Dollars ($10,000 USD) grant by
Google in the just concluded 2013 edition
of the CS4HS program.
The grant was awarded under the
Computer Science for High School (CS4HS)
program, which is an annual grant
program designed to increase awareness
of and interest in computer science
amongst high school and primary school
students through the help of their
teachers.
The program aims to connect teachers
with university academics and
educational institutions that provide them
with the training and resources they need
to teach computer science in fun and
relevant ways.
According to the Acting Director, IMTC Dr.
Caleb Akanbi, the proposal presented by
the IMTC was selected and announced as
one of the six (6) winners of the 2013
edition of the program in the Sub Saharan
Africa (SSA) region. Two winners
including Osun State University, were
actually selected from Nigeria.
The proposal is to train 36 secondary
school teachers, to be selected across the
six geo-political zones of The State of
Osun, on Computer and ICT related skills
during an intensive 5 days Training/
Workshop Programme in September, 2013.
News Via : UNIOSUN’s Official Website