Activities

Laureates SIE (Ebonyi laureates) has a free scholarship guidance group for Ebonyians where we share scholarship opportunities and resources for scholarships.

We acknowledge that Education is a way to combat poverty in Ebonyi state and yet education costs a fortune that the poor cannot afford. This is why we created a free scholarship guidance group for Ebonyians to aid them access free education.

We have a total of 122 members in our scholarship group

We have also held a total of two free scholarship webinars targeted at the Chevening, commonwealth and other scholarships.

On September 24 2021, Laureates science Innovation and Education Initiative- Laureates SIE, formerly Ebonyi laureates had a maiden webinar titled “Bootstrapping Social Media for Professional Development”.

Our speakers were Mr Raymond Okpani and Dr Abanni Sampson

The webinar was aimed at mobilizing Ebonyians to take advantage of the numberous opportunities available via social media

In October 2022 to mark the 25th Anniversary of Ebonyi state, Laureates SIE (Ebonyi Laureates) launched the #Ebonyi25MB movement.

This movement mobilized Ebonyians to apply for and amplify opportunities offered on the internet using just #25MB of Data.

We also shared various platforms for open access learning such as Freecodecamp, Solo learn and Harvard's CS50.

We launched our tech club(now renamed to our STEM club same month. The STEM club serves as an incubator for budding STEM talents in Ebonyi.

On December 6-12 2021, Laureates SIE (Ebonyi laureates) marked the computer Science Education week where we shared open access resources for learning digital skilss and launched our second and largest learning cohort; A cohort of learners learning Web development/Javascript via a Larger cohort on class central using the Freecodecamp curriculum.

While our cohort members did not complete their tasks, we drew lessons from this and these lessons are currently powering our current learning cohorts in various tech scholarships.

Last year during the Ebonyi Social Media Of Social Good awards, Laureates SIE (Ebonyi laureates) was nominated for Most content reliable social media group/ page.

While we didn't win, our nomination is a pointer to our impact in Ebonyi state.

Last year we had a free smart phone bootcamp training for Ebonyians and Nigerians
This was done because a good number of Nigerians do not have access to laptops.
The training was aimed at teaching them how to utilize their mobile devices for economic empowerment.

Over 100 people benefitted from the training.

In 2022, Laureates SIE became an official DataCamp donates partner. In the first year, we collaborated with the American based tech giants to offer 70 free datacamp licences to Ebonyians and Nigerians with disability. This year (2023), we have secured a further 100 licenses to offer to Ebonyians, Nigerians with disability and health researchers in Ebonyi State.
This partnership was borne out of the need to ameliorate the cost of online education to indigent Ebonyians and deserving Nigerians at large. We also hope it empowers the beneficiaries to develop world class tech skills capable of competing in the global marketplace.
To find out more on data camp donates, click here.

Last year, Laureates SIE (formerly Ebonyi laureates) launched our #Techfreely series (now renamed STEMfreely series) where we share resources for open access STEM Education on our social media pages.

We also launched our #Scholarfreely series where we share scholarship opportunities and resources for scholarships.

Through these series we aim to utilize the power of social media to promote open access education and learning opportunities for Ebonyians and Nigerians