Promise Nnalue, Jessica Osita, Nwabuaku Ossai, Adaeze Onuigbo and Vivian Okoye, the five girls from Regina Pacies Secondary school Onitsha, Anambra state, Nigeria, who represented Nigeria and Africa at the World Technovation Challenge, clutched the price.
Sweeping through over 2000 applications, to grasp the first position, at the Silicon Valley, San Francisco, United States of America, they won the challenge with a mobile application called the FD-Detector, which they developed to aid tackle the challenge of fake pharmaceutical products in the market.
According to news, the girls spent five months researching and developing under the coaching of Uchenna Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu, the CEO of Edufun Technik STEM. About 115 countries participated in the qualifier, but 12 teams made it to the finalist in Silicon Valley.
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