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RSS | 13 August 2018

A team of Nigerian schoolgirls won a top Silicon Valley prize for a fake-drug detector

Five Nigerian teenagers won first place in the junior division of the Technovation World Pitch Summit held in San Jose, California last with an app that has the potential to save thousands of lives. Iridescent’s 2018 Technovation World Pitch Summit is the world’s largest tech entrepreneurship program for girls. The program invites girls from ages ten to eighteen from all over the world to identify a problem in their community and then challenges the girls to solve it. 

Source: 
Quartz Africa
Author(s): 
Kemi Lijadu