The Honorable Minister Of State For Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, Commissioner, has flagged off the STEM Project programme in the North East. The Federal Commissioner For The National Commission For Refugees, Migrants And Internally Displaced Persons(NCFRMI) Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim , others accompanied the Honorable Minister Of Humanitarian Affairs Disaster Management And Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq joined him to flag off the North-East Zonal Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) project of the National Social Investment Programme.
STEM 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 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, while also developing their ICT skills including the use of the Internet for various purposes.
The STEM project has two components, the set-up of the centers in the carefully selected government-owned secondary schools and the training of the teachers in the schools so selected. While STEM centers are established to allow students of secondary schools 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. The programme is designed to equip and transform STEM teachers to deliver digital literacy through training, mentoring, and the provision of devices to aid teaching.
Each STEM center is equipped with modern digital equipment and a total of 218 such schools all over the 36 States and FCT are equipped with these digital gadgets. Each center is equipped with the following:
25 All In One Desktop PC 24inch Screen Intel 2.8 GHz quad-core.
25 Desktop tables and Chairs
1 Projector of 5000 lumens
1 magnetic whiteboard for learning
1 WiFi Routers multi-SIM
18 Elegoo Robotics set.
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