CCM VIDEO OF THE WEEK - Maleek Berry - 4 Me
Our favorite video of the week is from Top notch Singer, song writer and producer Maleek Berry. After dropping the visuals to his hit tracks Kontrol and Eko Miami, Maleek Berry drops this dope video titled "4 Me" Directed by Unlimited LA.
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Women/Girls in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) EDUCATION
STEM Education defines education and capacity building in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics based subjects. STEM education plays a central role in contemporary society, with the potential to improve lives in a multitude of ways and advance national development. Access to the fruits of science at the individual and collective levels, however, lies primarily with those endowed with scientific knowledge and skills. Increasingly, those with the greatest understanding of science and technology have access to the best information, opportunities and jobs around the world
All over the world, from free and advanced societies to once “tagged” conservative societies, more women are being encouraged and supported to take on these subjects.It has been a convention and norm over the years to relegate or ostracize women from male dominated professions and careers to less rigorous careers especially in stereotyped societies with cultural biases like ours in Nigeria, with a flashlight on the North-eastern, North-Central, and North-Western Nigeria. Private/Government/Family institutions pay less focus and investment in women as they are seen to be home-makers and domestic helpers. The result of this has led to more pressure on the male counterpart, the immediate community as well as the government.
The world has changed within the blink of an eye and now moving at astronomical and exponential speeds. Once conservative and stereotypic societies are having a paradigm shift and embracing Science and Technology than ever before. More attention is moving towards huge investments in women getting involved in Science and Technology based career which is seen as a male dominated field.The success and wellbeing of a society and community is dependent on the success of each member of the family.
Nigeria with a huge population of over 180 million out of which 69 million are women and girls; their exclusion from the generation and application of scientific knowledge represents a tremendous waste of human potential. The country will serve itself best by Individuals, families, corporate bodies and Government making STEM education a top priority as well as invest greatly in young girls. These will serve as a gradual step towards making our immediate society and community prosperous as each individual (male or female becomes a contributor to our local economy). However, Nigerians are beginning to point to role models that have broken cultural barriers like (Fatima Abba Gwadabe as the first commercial Pilot from Kano state, Ruqayya Suleiman also first female pilot from Katsina State, Salamat Aliyu, Nigeria and West Africa’s first female Neurosurgeon from Kogi state)
They have made giant strides in STEM based professions, impacted on their immediate family as a support, economic contributor to their immediate community and role model to young girls who looks up to a hero.
More initiatives should be introduced to support young girls in taking up STEM subjects and careers include STEM Mentorship programs, Showcasing female role models (“If I can do it, you can also do it”), More Scholarships and Funding Opportunities, Awards, recognition and Fellowships amongst others.
Quadrev Fasaha Hub is playing its role in engaging girls at the early primary and junior secondary when attitudes about learning are formed through its Quadrev creative computing outreach program, Quadrev Girls Stem education program, Mentorship programs and Yearly boot campsQuadrev Fasahar High impact Internship program in Computing - Software Development-Applications, Robotics, Embedded Systems, and Electronics. This isto inspire the next generation of girls/women early enough to take up science & technology based careers in Biotechnology, Computer programming, Big Data Analytics, Mechatronics, Medical engineering and Medicine. You can read more on our programs at www.quadrev.com/creativecomputingprogram. or enrol your kids to participate in our August Creative Computing Boot Camp in Kano send an email to (info@quadrev.com)
Ahmad Aminu Idris
Lead, Technical Trainer at (Quadrev creative Computing Outreach Programs)
XL Spiff: UK based Nigerian international artist
XL has been making his own sounds for almost 6 years and started releasing music about 2 years ago. XL's artistic talent soon gained major popularity and attention, therefore leading him to sign a deal with Black Pearl Inc as his management/record label. XL has since taken a step further to breakthrough the industry by releasing various hit singles. XL released "mistakenly" in the beginning of the year which gained hundreds of thousands of views/likes on social medias, airplay on radio and tv stations within the UK and Nigeria. XL also followed up with audio singles for his fans with "money talks" which was repeatedly played on Bbc radio.
XL's work has also caught the attention of international artists such as gyptian, w3strn, whom all loved his sound. As a result, XL was opening act for gyptian during his UK tour and also for W3strn. This also helped XL to create an afrobeats remix of WSTRN's number one hit single "IN2" which was verbally approved by W3strn for release because they loved XL's afrobeats remix of the song.
Meet The Fast Rising HipHop Prodigy KULTURE '77
Kulture '77, with real name Udo Chinenye Bethel is from Abia state, A Presbyterian that was born and raised in Festac, Lagos. He attended sacred heart college & Crawford university.
According to Kulture,he was inspired mainly to start making his own music when he watched the music Video of MI's safe in 2009, among other reasons.
He refers to the genre of his music as AFRO Rap/Hiphop. He added that It is a combined genre of AFROBeat and RAP for the African people to groove in a hip relativity. Kulture mentioned Ab-soul, Lil wayne, Nas, Jesse jags and Baba Fela as his music icons.
"My major challenges in the music business are mainly financial, funding to promote my music and having the listeners acceptance of rap music" Kulture added.
In the next 5years, Kulture sees himself as an inspiring icon for other upcoming artistes, an emblem of Festac and a ray of hope for the African people.
"My word of advice for upcoming artistes is this: the pain of your labor is the pleasure of your wealth
... thank you"
QUADREV: A Revolution In Creative Computing
Quadrev Creative Computing Outreach Program
Science and Technology plays a
major role in contemporary society with potential to improve lives in diverse
ways. Considering the role Kano plays to all the northern states as the “Lagos
of the North”, the exigency to invest massively in
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) cannot be
over-emphasized, if the northern part of the country must progress and catch up
with the rest of the world. There is an urgent need to encourage
northern kids/youths to pursue career paths in Science, Technology, Engineering
and Math (STEM) as well as understanding the opportunities that are available
to students of math and science.
To this end, the
Quadrev Creative computing outreach program was created as an extension of
Quadrev Fasaha Hub’s Educational and community development outreach program in
North-east, North-west and North-central Nigeria, to inspire, empower and
expose kids/youths between ages 6 to 18+ years to become creative engineers at
an early age i.e. help them to develop creative skills as they grow and create
challenges that spark their imagination through creative computing/ (STEM
EDUCATION) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
Ahmad
Aminu Idris is the Lead, Technical Trainer at Quadrev creative Computing
Outreach Programs. He specializes in embedded systems
design automation with special skills in Power electronics, Digital
systems, C programming, MATLAB, systems engineering, VHDL, Analogue and digital
electronics, Radio frequency, Electrical Distribution, Advanced Communication
Systems. He holds a joint Honors (B.Eng.) Electronics/Communications
Engineering from the University of Birmingham, England with Lab stints in
Beijing, China. He had his primary education in the city of Kano, and Secondary
at Air Force Military School (AFMS) Jos.
Ahmed’s motivation lies in giving Kids in Northern Nigeria an early
start in creative computing and spur their creativity to solve the needs for
our immediate environment e.g. constructing and making gadgets smarter with a
range of sensors for detecting things like humidity, temperature, pulse, colour,
and carbon monoxide, how code could make characters move around a screen and
make them talk all together. We help design programs and kits that help kids between age
(6-18+yrs) provoke their curiosity and creativity and play to invent and
re-invent the future. Our special needs programs span across Quadrev Girls
Stem education program, Quadrev Fasahar High impact Internship program in Computing - Software Development-Applications, Robotics, Embedded Systems, and
Electronics. You can read more on our programs at www.quadrev.com/creativecomputingprogram