Folashade Adebayo, Education Advising Superior, United States Embassy, Abuja to speak at Google CS4HS 2015 Workshop

Do you know what time it is? It's 1:16a.m. and I am still awake trying to wrap things up in preparation for the grande finale of our Google CS4HS 2015 Teacher Training workshop. I really believe that anything worth doing is worth doing well and with that I set some very hairy audacious goals during the organization of this workshop. It's turned out to be a success on every level you can think of and for that I am humbled. To bring things to a close today is an amazing woman from the US Embassy Abuja. I am honored to introduce her to you all.

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Folashade Adebayo (Education Advising Superior, United States Embassy, Abuja) Folashade Adebayo describes herself as an original “Naija” woman with her ability to understand and speak several Nigerian languages (she speaks Yoruba, Hausa, Pidgin English and has a basic understanding of Igbo). She holds a degree in Public Administration and a post graduate degree in Business Administration. Before joining the United States Embassy, Shade worked with the American International School Abuja. 

She has attended the United States Based Training Program (USBT) and Professional Advising Leadership (PAL) training, participated in Sub-Saharan Africa advisors conferences, presented and co-chaired sessions at several NAFSA and other international educational conferences. It is Shade’s role of advising indigent and talented students in the United States Achievers Program (USAP) that gives her the most satisfaction. By advising USAP students and sharing their success stories, Shade spreads a message of hope for a brighter future to talented young Nigerians who never believed they could study in the United States on scholarship. 

Shade says “being an advisor is the best job at the Embassy because we are in the business of transforming lives”. She will be speaking as well as facilitating a panel discussion at our closing ceremony tomorrow.

GOOGLE CS4HS 2015 AT THE NIGERIAN TURKISH NILE UNIVERSITY (24TH-28TH AUGUST, 2015)

Computer Science for High Schools (CS4HS) is an annual grant program promoting computer science education worldwide by connecting educators to the skills and resources they need to teach computer science & computational thinking concepts in fun and relevant ways. 

It is with pleasure that we would like to invite Secondary School teachers to our Google Computer Science for High Schools (Train-The-Teachers) workshop that will be held on the 24th-28th of August, 2015 at the Nigerian Turkish Nile University, Abuja, Nigeria.

Activities involve;

• Hands-on training on App Development using MIT App Inventor (no programming experience required).
• Game Design using Scratch (no programming experience required).
• Introductory lectures to Python programming.
• Invited talks, panel discussions and much more.

The 5-day workshop is geared towards achieving the following objectives;

• Instilling in teachers the desire to create fun learning experiences for their students with regards to Computer Science and programming which is often perceived as being difficult.
• Cultivate in them the willingness to adapt to the changing needs of today’s learners thereby choosing to pursue a more student-centered learning approach that takes into account the different learning styles of each student.
• Provide hands-on experience in App Development and Game design using App Inventor and Scratch respectively.
• Encourage teachers to become CS champions in their schools as well as assist them in the organization of one Train-The-Students (TTS) event on their campuses.

Limited travel support for participants is available. In addition to this, coffee breaks and lunch will be catered for by the Organizers. 

Participants MUST be secondary school teachers of Computer Science, Information Technology or any ICT related field. Interested persons should please send a brief introductory email with the subject CS4HS 2015 to tabotarreytambe@gmail.com or feel free to call 08133556888. If you would be interested in giving a talk at the workshop, do send an email to the same address or call the aforementioned number.