About one hundred and fifty tech enthusiasts also known as techies converged on the premises of the University of Lagos, UNILAG for the second edition of the Cavista Hackathon holding between April twenty-six and twenty-seven.
The forty-eight hour hackathon, featuring fifty students comprising hackers, coders, software engineers among others each from UNILAG, LASU, and YABATECH will see participants dive into the world of coding, problem solving and innovation.
Country Director of Cavista Tech, Dele Odufuye explained that the presence of the participants is a testament of their passion for technology and their drive to push technology beyond the existing horizons.
Odufuye, while charging them to embrace team spirit, collaboration and focus on gaining experience, said the hackathon will avail participants the avenue to learn and work with experts in the various tech sectors who have solved real world problems using technology and innovation.
In his remarks, Minister of State for Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande noted that technology is the language of the modern youth and innovation is the voice through which it speaks.
Olawande, while commending the Organisers of the hackathon, Cavista Tech for engaging young minds through technology, opined that youths can contribute to nation building by honning their skills and impacting their immediate environment and the Country at large.
The Minister charged participants to at the end of the hackathon, proffer home grown solutions through technology to the challenges bedeviling youth development at the grassroots.
Blacktalker, who was present at the Afe Babalola Hall in the University of Lagos, reports that twenty-eight teams from UNILAG, LASU and YABATECH with three to five person per team will engage in the ultimate test of skills, teamwork, ruggedness, and determination, while the winner goes home with a cash prize of one million naira, with consolation prizes of seven and five hundred thousand naira each for the first and second runners up.
