From Onitsha to Silicon Valley: The Story of Five Teen Innovators
- Author:
- Nigeria Health Watch
- Publisher:
- Nigeria Health Watch
- Publication Date:
- 14 August 2018
- Tags:
- Nigeria, Health and Medicine, Innovation
Save a Soul, a team of five students from the Regina Pacis Secondary School Onitsha in Anambra State, won a place in this year's global finals of the Technovation Challenge in Silicon Valley, California, USA. The team, which won a place in the challenge with the idea for an app that detects fake drugs, called the FD Detector, is the only African team to participate in this year's challenge, and competed with teams from China, Uzbekistan, Spain, Turkey and United States in the finals. Watch their story.
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