Lacy Phillips – Youth for Technology Foundation

Author: Lacy Phillips

Seeding Talent – Highlights from the journey of one of our own

Dr. Elochukwu Ukwandu, is a father of three, who worked hard to make a successful life for him and his family. He was one of YTF’s first employees in Nigeria. He recently shared with us how he reached where he is today as well as how he has witnessed YTF grow over the past 20 […]

Innovators in Additive Manufacturing Come Together Virtually for the 2020 FAMA Conference

The continent of Africa is blessed with a vast amount of natural resources. However, looking at technological development, one could wonder at what stage Africa is in as far as the Fourth Industrial Revolution and as the world advances towards Industry 4.0. Africa has the world’s oldest record of human technological achievement: the oldest stone […]

Our Founder selected to join the inaugural Elevate Prize Judging Panel

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Bringing STEM to the doorsteps of the underdeveloped communities in Africa

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Coding is the New Language

Fifty percent of children in their early childhood years have a phobia for mathematics, which precludes students who may otherwise have developed a keen interest in STEM. I did not love mathematics because of that general apathy towards it in my childhood. I became enthusiastic in calculations when my primary school introduced Abacus to us […]

Aminah On the Move

Meet Aminah We first met Aminah Rufai during the HackForGood 2018 competition at the University of Lagos. She is a graduate of the University of Benin with a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering and has also earned a master of science in biomedical engineering degree from the University of Lagos. During HackForGood 2018, Amina was […]

HackForGood 2019

Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF) is proud to announce that Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) will be the academic host for HackForGood 2019 design and prototyping challenge. 3D Africa will be bringing HackForGood to the FUTA campus in Azure from October 17th through the 19th. Since 1981, FUTA has been among Nigeria’s top-ranked universities. In 2019, FUTA’s […]

The Future of Nigeria’s Tech Landscape Through The Eyes of 10 Leading Women

Ventures Africa has recognized YTF CEO Njideka Harry as one of 10 leading women of Nigeria’s tech landscape. Read “The Future of Nigeria’s Tech Landscape Through The Eyes of 10 Leading Women” Please follow and like us:

YTF Launches Girls4Tech at Kimathi Primary School in Nairobi, Kenya

Thanks to the generous support of our partners at Fundación Esperanza Pertusa (EPF), we were able to launch our Girls4Tech program at the Kimathi Primary School in Nairobi, Kenya. Fundación Esperanza Pertusa is a charitable organization set up by the family-run, internationally-known footwear company Gioseppo. Their goal is to “put themselves in the shoes […]

Balance for Better – International Women’s Day 2019

At Youth for Technology Foundation, our focus is right there in our name. Our goal is to equip young people in low-income communities and developing nations with critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity skills grounded in technology. But that’s not all we do. Part of our mission has always been to actively listen to the […]