STEM Africa Fest Empowers 3,000 Kids With Hands-on STEAM Learning In Lagos

STEM Africa Fest, Africa’s largest STEAM-focused lawsuit for children, has further reaffirmed its committedness to empowering young Africans done hands-on acquisition successful Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) and future-ready skills astatine its precocious concluded 2025 edition.

The festival held successful Lagos welcomed implicit 3,000 attendees, highlighting its pivotal relation successful nurturing the adjacent procreation of innovators and the value of STEAM acquisition successful shaping Africa’s future.

This year’s festival, themed ‘AI for Good’, showcased however artificial quality could beryllium leveraged arsenic a instrumentality for solving real-world challenges and the increasing interaction of hands-on subject and exertion acquisition successful Nigeria.

Speaking connected the interaction of the event, Co-founder of STEM Africa Fest and co-organiser, Mrs Jadesola Adedeji, highlighted the festival’s ngo to equip children with applicable skills and animate a passionateness for innovation.

She remarked, “Each year, STEM Africa Fest reminds america of what is imaginable erstwhile children are fixed the abstraction to explore, question, and build. This isn’t conscionable astir STEM, it’s astir unlocking imaginable and preparing a procreation of young Africans to pb boldly successful a tech-driven world. We are arrogant to make an acquisition that is some joyful and profoundly transformative.”

While the festival featured a wide array of STEM activities, tech vocation talks and hands-on STEAM labs, including sessions connected AI and Machine Learning, Coding, Robotics, Virtual Reality, Engineering, Craft, Drone Technology, Science experiments, amongst different activities. These interactive workshops provided children with an immersive experience, allowing them to research the wonders of exertion and its real-world applications.

Commenting connected the occurrence of this year’s festival successful Lagos, Co-founder of 9ijakids and co-organiser of the event, Titi Adewusi, said, “STEM Africa Fest is much than a one-day event, it’s a gateway to preparing Africa’s adjacent procreation of problem-solvers, innovators, and captious thinkers. The skills spread is simply a shared situation and we judge partnerships specified arsenic STEM Africa Fest are the mode guardant to code it.’’

A large item of the festival was a captivating unrecorded AI objection by Malik Afegbua, world-renowned Creative AI Technologist and creator of The Elder Series, who showed children however artificial quality tin beryllium a almighty instrumentality for creativity and storytelling. The time besides featured hands-on workshops successful robotics, coding, virtual reality, drone technology, subject experiments, and STEAM-based crafts, giving children a accidental to research exertion done real-world applications.

Adding to the excitement was the highly anticipated raffle draw, wherever 3 (3) fortunate attendees—Olayinka Samuel Favour, who won a tablet and Fisaju Joel Champion, who received a smartwatch each won breathtaking gifts. The raffle created a consciousness of excitement and solemnisation crossed the festival grounds and underscored the event’s committedness to accessibility, engagement, and joyful learning.

Organised by 9ijakids and STEM-METS successful concern with Argentil Capital Partners, Access Bank, First E & P, Oando, First Bank, Flour Mills, Dorman Long Engineering, and different dedicated partners, STEM Africa Fest continues to turn arsenic a almighty question committed to reimagining acquisition and empowering Africa’s aboriginal done STEAM.

Since its inception successful 2021, the festival has impacted implicit 20,000 children, students, parents and educators crossed Lagos, Abuja, Ghana, Zambia, Rwanda, Gambia, Kenya and Sierra Leone.