The foundation in collaboration with The Little Engineer and STEM METS Resources, embarked on the training programme to encourage Nigerian students to understand and ignite in them a passion that could grow into an exciting career in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
The Executive Director of the foundation, Andrea Debbane, explained this last week during the Airbus Little Engineer A380 workshop held at the Methodist Girls’ High School, Lagos.
A total of 30 students aged between 13 and15 years participated in the training, focusing on identifying various aircraft parts and enhancing understanding of both the manufacturing and assembling processes of the world’s largest passenger aircraft.
The students also at the forum built A380 scale model airbus caricature from scratch to take off, using robots as a way of demonstrating their grasp of the training.
The executive director, however, noted that investment in education and training were essential to build educated and skilled workforce anywhere in the world, hence the introduction of airbus youth development programme in Nigeria.
Also speaking, founder of STEM METS Resources, Jadesola Adedeji, said the workshop which encouraged team work, was designed to help Nigeria children to be innovative in learning using and creating an environment for STEM education.
According to her, Africa has the fastest-growing and most youthful population in the world and all stakeholders must because of that join efforts to facilitate access to STEM skills for youth to enable them to drive economic growth across the continent.
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