INTRODUCTION
Aiming to improve labor market opportunities for youths from low-income households in Nigeria.
Hence further expanding our work and upholding our promise to improve the lives of Africans through STEM education.
Secondary School Graduates
Public School Teachers
STEM/MINT Internships
Aim For Students
Through STEM workshops, focusing on ICT skills, job application training, and company visits, the young adults deal with apprenticeship occupations and a possible resulting business start-up.
Aim For Teachers
Teachers will gain the ability to integrate practical STEM content in the classroom and in their daily teaching.
Training Location
Lagos, Nigeria
Industry
Soft Skills, Digital Skills, and Vocational Orientation.
BeMINT is a training and internship program that provides fresh and senior secondary school graduates with practical and curriculum-oriented topics in soft, digital, and specialized skills for the science and technology workforce. It also provides the top half of successful students with internship opportunities with a reputable organization during which they would have access to practical knowledge and work experience.
The project first began in November 2022 with 300 students selected from schools across 4 education districts in Lagos State as target beneficiaries. Now with BeMINT 2.0, we are training over 400 students.
The Teachers Training Program
Within the program, teachers from selected schools would be trained on the Experimento practical set-up/use guide for a duration of one week each in two batches, to enable them to support their student science learning process. This training would follow the regular Experimento training guideline.
- 400 young high school graduates
- 100 science teachers
- Current Milestones
- 231 high school graduates trained.
- 150 high school graduates selected & ready to be deployed for internship