Andrews Challenge for Student Scholarships
NIGERIA'S foremost online scholarly competition -
Andrews Challenge
has been developed by a cream of Engineers. According to Dr. O. S. Asaolu who is the Non-Executive Director, "Andrews Challenge" is an
online scholarly
competition developed to reward students who are both smart
and swift. The development was made by him in
conjunction with a former student of his named Tosin and Mr. J.Fayese - the CEO of True
Measures Limited.
He
explains that Andrews Challenge is a web based e-learning resource meant to
refocus the youths from Internet vices unto academic gains, even with free
participation. The mission is to award scholarship prizes to deserving Secondary and
Tertiary students. The vision is to stimulate the reading culture, better educational
performances and healthy academic rivalry across the nation. Seasonal Prizes for each category are; 1st Prize: N150,000.00; 2nd Prize: N75,000.00; 3rd Prize: N50,000.00
Seasonal winners would be invited to our computing laboratory to compete for a winner-take-all amount of at least N250,000.00 and Certificate of Excellence for the overall
best contestant in each category, he added.
The first season of the competition runs
from 24th November to 10th December 2012. On the eligibility for the contest, Asaolu highlighted
that "the competition is opened to SS1 - SS3 students; External students
at tutorial centers; and 100-300 level undergraduate students in tertiary institutions in
Nigeria. The website www.andrewschallenge.net
has detailed information," he said. Dr. Asaolu is a globally acclaimed
academician
at the Department of System Engineering, University of Lagos who has released award winning
software innovations starting with Lingua; a word processor for Nigerian
languages in 2001. He received the Young Scientist Award for 2009 from the IAP,
the international panel of over one hundred national science academies.
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