The JSS2 Students: Tejiri,12, Salome Akhabhau,11, Excel Barile-Nwika,11 and Goodness Nwonanne-Chima,12- are students of a private secondary school, Jacob’s Well High School,Port Harcourt.
The Four female students from Jacob’s Well High School International developed an android application called AgriConnect, meant to deal with hunger issues in the country. They will be attending this year’s World Technovation Girls Challenge holding in Silicon Valley, California.
The summit will hold on between October 15 and 19 this year and will attract other young female android application developers who were selected after a tedious process across the globe. The AgriConnect was among the 3,200 android applications developed by about 11,000 girls from 69 countries, including the USA, UK, Japan, China, Canada, and Spain. The four girls who call themselves the Smart Elite, fell into the beginners division of the contest, whose age bracket falls between eight and 12 years.
