TEAM UNILAG WINS GOOGLE APPLICATION CONTEST

Three students of the University of Lagos have won the 2012 edition of Google Apps Developer Challenge for the Enterprise/Small Business Solutions category in sub-Saharan Africa. The students are Bolutife Ogunsola a student of Electrical/Electronics Engineering; Willie Francis Aniebiet a student of Systems Engineering and Michael Ifeoluwa Adeyeri

They created the Form+ application software; an interface that creates application forms by just dragging and dropping components. The user can create forms like Curriculum Vitae or Resume submission forms for businesses and coursework submission page for lecturers. The winners were rewarded with Chromebooks and $20,000 and a grant of $18,000 for their department.

According to the Outreach Program Manager of Google, Emeka Afigbo who currently leads Google’s efforts to discover, inspire, mobilize and support talents stated “Our expectation is that this motivates more young Nigerian developers to develop applications that change the way we live in Nigeria and Africa at large”.

 

This goes a long way to give credibility to the Nigerian educational system and with even more commitment we can produce more inventive minds. Kudos guys and this is wishing that the right people will take note and give you the necessary support.