More Schools to Benefit from FG’s STEM Project

By Sodeinde Temidayo David

The federal government has assured that more schools will benefit from its Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) project in a bid to foster the technology atmosphere of the country.

This was made known by the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Ms Sadiya Farouq, at the launch of the North East STEM centre at the Federal Government College in Borno State.

She also revealed that the STEM Centre will be established in five other locations across the state.

The STEM centre is one of the two components of the FG’s STEM project under the national social investment programme, which includes the set-up of the centres in carefully selected government-owned secondary schools and the training of the teachers in the schools selected.

The project was strategically conceived to provide technical platforms that will aid modern teaching and learning on Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics to students in selected Federal and State-owned Science and Technical Secondary Schools nationwide.

STEM centres are set to give students of secondary school an opportunity to have practical experience in digital learning platforms, the training component focuses on building the capacity of teachers in secondary schools to significantly enhance the learning of STEM which is the foundation of the digital economy.

Also, STEM teachers are equipped and transformed to deliver digital literacy through training, mentoring and provision of devices to aid teaching.

According to Ms Farouq, a total of 218 of such schools located all over the 36 States and FCT are equipped with modern digital equipment in each centre including 25 all-In-one-desktop PC 24-inch screen Intel 2.8 GHz quad-core, 25 desktop tables and chairs, one projector of 5000 lumens, one magnetic whiteboard for learning, WiFi routers multi-SIM and 18 Elegoo Robotics sets.

The project aims at providing e-learning facilities through the establishment of a state-of-the-art Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure and modern teaching content, to serve as a one-stop-shop environment for students in public secondary schools, to have access to digital and updated learning materials in STEM while also developing their ICT skills including the use of the Internet for various purposes.