In
a bid to help young women harness their potentials and achieve their
set goals, London based Nigerian Information Technology professional, Ms Adanna
Ononiwu, has launched a global mentoring project for young girls and women in
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), ITRealms authoritatively gathered.
The
project tagged InspireIT, in a statement made available to journalists
recently, is a free online project aimed at empowering young girls and women to
enable them choose their careers properly and achieve their career goals
“The
project is aimed at young girls and women. It’s a program where experts in STEM
can mentor these women to enable them harness their potentials. It will be
mostly done via online (emails and skype)”, the Information Technology graduate
of Anglia Ruskin University – Chelmsford, London and Ebonyi State University,
Abakaliki, Nigeria said.
According
to Ononiwu, the project will give young girls and women the opportunity to
participate in an online mentoring programme that will guide them to achieve
their target goals.
“This is a new project recently launched this
month and it is aimed at encouraging our young girls and women in STEM. Through
this project, they will be able to have one on one interaction with their
mentors mostly online and ask questions about their subject areas as it relates
to the ‘real world’.
“If
most young girls and women in STEM are mentored, I believe they will be able to
choose their careers properly and achieve their career goals,” Adanna said.
The
InspireIT mentors are professionals drawn from a variety of fields of STEM from
different countries across the globe.
ITRealms gathered that the STEM online mentoring project is run by Nuecla Services,
an IT consulting agency affiliated to Nuecla Services Limited UK.
Ms
Ononiwu, who is a blogger, took to her blog to announce the kick off of the
project thus:
“Hi
All,
I
have officially started my free mentoring project titled 'InspireIT' for young
girls and women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) for
interested girls and women”.
Already,
online forms have been created for intending mentors and mentees to fill and
participate in the project.
For
young girls who wish to join the mentoring programme, the
link, she said is: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hu8AyqZfWeq5pK_g793Pb1V5Cn-tPSCnYwFa4y7ja_8/viewform
while for professionals who wish to be mentors can register online using the
link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OFFl7xRXIEcQ6IRxNMJqQxwuLK7QvoyxQptzUhQo9Ns/viewform.
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