Five female students from the Regina Pacies Secondary School
Onitsha who represented Nigeria and Africa at the World Technovation Challenge
which held in the Silicon Valley in San Francisco, US, won the Gold Medal in
the contest.
The girls namely Promise Nnalue, Jessica Osita, Nwabuaku
Ossai, Adaeze Onuigbo and Vivian Okoye, defeated representatives of other
technological giants including the USA, Spain, Turkey, Uzbekistan and China to
clinch the gold medal.
These young ladies in Junior Secondary School, developed a
mobile application called 'FD Detector' to tackle the problems of fake pharmaceutical
products in Nigeria.
Every year, girls are invited to identify a problem in their
communities, and then challenge them to solve them by developing Andriod
applications that would address those problems.
115 countries participated in the qualifiers but only 12
teams from all over the world were selected as finalists for the pitch in
Silicon Valley.
