Nigeria is the largest African country with unlimited human resources, alot of Nigeria diaspora are making Notable and applaudable Achievement across various fields from Science to Art and Tech, business and Sport. These achievement do not only bring pride to the Country but also gives her relevance on the Global stage.
Emmanuelle Oziofu Mayaki a 15 year old Nigerian ICT prodigy who have achieved a lot global and national recognition at a very young age of 9 through computer programming and machine language.
the Native of Edo State born to the family of Mr John Mayaki was born on the 7th of January 2009,
Emmanuella Mayaki's journey into tech began early at the young age of 7 driven by her interest for societal growth she is an advocate for equipping the girl child with skills needed for survival in the 21 century .
Emmanuella established the Emma ICT Academy (Codekid) Nigeria an online tutoring platform that is targeted at teaching kids, especially Girl-child in Nigeria coding.
At the age of 7, Emmanuella Mayaki graduated as an expert in Computer Publishing, Advanced Excel, Adobe PageMaker, Advanced PowerPoint, and CorelDraw. Two years later, she furthered her education by enrolling at NIIT to study web development and graphic design and joined Tech24 to learn mobile application development. She is skilled at HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, WordPress, PHP, MySQL, graphic design, Java, and Python.
Amidst all these notable achievements it is important to note that Emmanuel had her basic Education in Nigeria from fortune School Benin City to Skycrest School Lagos State.
She Scored a 91 percentile mark of 1,300 in her Scholastic Aptitude Test.
Emmanuella Relocated at age 10 to United Kingdom where she was hired to teach coding to pupils in her age group in Southfield Primary School at the afterschool coding club. At 13 She set a new record as one of the youngest persons to be accepted into a university in the United States by getting Admitted into the Programme for the Exceptionally Gifted at the Mary Baldwin University, US, to study Computer Science.
In May 2022, Emmanuella Mayaki was nominated as a STEM icon by STEM Kids New York City, an organization dedicated to inspiring children in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, Emmanuella is recognised as one of the most influential female change maker of this time as she serves as a role model to many young people all around the world.
Comments