Eight Universities Benefit from Intel’s ICT Training

Eight universities in the country have been engaged in training assistance on Information and Communication Technology from ICT giant, Intel Corporation, as part of efforts at boosting ICT education in the nation’s tertiary institutions.

A two-week training, which ended last week, at the Federal University of Technology, Akure(FUTA), culminated in the exhibition of various projects designed by faculty staff and students drawn from the universities.

The Universities are Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria; Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State; Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State; Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ekiti State; Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), Ondo State; Federal University of Science and Technology Owerri (FUTO) Imo State and the University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Kwara State.

At the end of the intensive training workshop, tagged “Inspiring Innovation through hands-on Intel Galileo Board” 80 participants displayed 19 projects executed with the use of the board.

The projects include Domestic Energy Supply Manager, Vehicle Tracking System, Air Pollution and Fire outbreak alarm, Bird Attack Reduction For Rice Farmers, and Save My Car anti car theft and alarm system.

Speaking at the event, a member of Intel Education Service Corps, Wolf Witt, stated that Intel Corporation was committed to contributing to engineering and technology development at FUTA and Nigeria in general.

According to Witt, “Engineering is the process of applying science to create technology that solves real problems and thereby makes our lives better. Two weeks is not a lot of time to learn and integrate many new software and hardware concepts, and I wish we could have shared more, but please recall the projects we saw this morning.”

In his remark, Babatunde Akinola, corporate affairs manager, Intel Nigeria, who applauded the participants for the enthusiasm demonstrated during the training period, also charged them to be innovative, by exploring the many opportunities and potentials that can be derived with the use of the Intel Galileo Board.