Hi,
Data Science Nigeria recently completed the 2021 edition of the AI Bootcamp. The event had local and international speakers from industry and academia in attendance. At the end of the Bootcamp, new winners emerged in several categories.
The 2020 edition of the AI Bootcamp saw the emergence of Precious Kolawole and Paul Okewunmi as winners in the Mr and Mrs Algorithm category. This year, 2021 new winners emerged!
Obafemi Awolowo University (DSN AI+ OAU) and the University of Ibadan (DSN AI+ IBADAN) both clinched the AI School of the Year Award with a cash prize of three hundred thousand Naira and 1million Naira respectively courtesy of Retina AI.
AI City of the Year Award went to AI+ Ilorin courtesy of Terragon group. The winners came through after undergoing competitive hackathon sessions.
For the Best Poster Award Category, the trio of Paul Okewunmi, Oluwadunsin Fajemila, Amazing-Grace Oluwatomilayo came 1st with their poster presentation on Drone Based Monitoring System for Large Scale Farming. See Poster [pdf], quick demo and 4 minutes poster presentation
The second position went to Steven Kolawole, Opeyemi Osakuade, Babatunde Kazeem Olorisade for their poster presentation on Driving an Inclusive Society: Sign-to-Speech Modeling for Sign Language Understanding while the third position went to Peace Bello, Victor Olufemi, Grace Omojola, Dayo Abiona, Oyinbayode Akinleye for their presentation on Chemotronix; IoT device enabled with AI for carbon reduction.
For the Mr and Mrs Algorithm category, Oluwadunsin Fajemila won for the male category while Bunmi Akinremi won the female category.
To all the winners, we celebrate you!
Scholarship
Alexander Friedman International Scholarships 2022 at Yeshiva University in USA
International Diversity Scholarships 2021 at Georgia Southern University in USA See other details here. The scholarship application form needs to be filled and sent to intladmissions@georgiasouthern.edu
International Academic Excellence Scholarships 2022 at La Salle Ramon Llull University in Spain. Visit The Official Website For More Information
International Student Scholarships 2022 at Mount Mercy University in USA. Applicants must have submitted an online application first in order to be considered for the scholarship award. Visit the website for more information
Territory Awards 2021 for International Students at Coventry University in UK Visit the website for more information
Job Opportunities
Join the Cc Hub Internship Programme Apply here
Senior Product Manager at gomoney
Director of Programmes at Leap Africa
Regional Marketing Manager, Africa at Bolt
Product Manager – Data (Lagos) at Stitch
Data Analytics Intern at Roche Nigeria
Reads
Importance, Objectives & Examples of organisational behaviour
The Link Between Company Culture And Customer Loyalty
How to Structure Your Company to Successfully Scale
The Startup Org Chart from Founding to IPO
How to Win at private-equity integrations
How Jeff Bezos hired an Amazon applicant ‘on the spot’
Free download: 100 SLides on HTML and CSS Best Practices
Opportunities & Events
Access to Tech scholarships for CS students
Are you a whiz? Apply for the Adamantine Energy LNG Fuel Stove Hackathon, create the most innovative solution for a portable and safe LNG stove. The winner will receive a monetary award of N1,000,000 and the opportunity to design the product
Join Ire Aderinokun, Shalom Matthew, Eze Amaka, and Wisdom Nwokocha at JavaScript Congress ’21
Register for the Advancing Women in Entrepreneurship Event
Tech News
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AI Customer-Service Startup Netomi Raises $30 Million
MLOps Startup Comet Raise $50M Series B
Nigerian Startup Kippa Secures $3.2M Pre-seed Funding
Techstars-backed Mobility Startup Shuttlers Secures $1.6M
Have a lovely week! Bye.