{"id":188,"date":"2025-03-24T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiolailupeju.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:01:42","slug":"my-techwomen-experience-one-participation-many-lives-touched-the-global-village-continues-to-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiolailupeju.com\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"My Techwomen Experience: One Participation, Many Lives Touched, The Global Village continues to benefit\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since participating in the Techwomen programme in 2015; I always look forward to the monthly newsletter from Katie Zee, the programme Manager; the newsletter served as a motivation and inspiration for me as it would always itemize the various achievements of fellows from all around the world and how we are each making a difference in our various fields. I eargerly opened the newsletter on March 14th<\/sup>, 2025 but this time around, it was different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I received the sad news which indicated that the programme would be discontinued as the staff were already furloughed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the exposure to more best practices in software development which I had during the programme, Moat Academy was born ; a coding bootcamp where we raise software developers who are taught with globally accepted best practices and secure coding principles in creating software applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past 8 years of running the Academy; we have been able to train hundreds of software developers who today are working both within Nigeria and abroad; I have also been able to serve as role models to many who today are enjoying accelerated careers in the Software Development field and are also contributing to the global village:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, when Moat Academy turned 6, we celebrated 6 alumni each from each of our year of existence (we tagged the award 6for6<\/strong><\/em> available on https:\/\/moatacademy.com\/pages\/awards<\/u><\/a> )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anytime, I receive the news of any of our alumni being recognized for their work in the software development field;  I can not but trace their achievements to that ONE TECHWOMEN PARTICIPATION IN SILICON VALLEY in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a programme that has made such impacts; It will be my utmost joy to see the Techwomen programme continues; and just as I shared in this article I wrote in 2015 (https:\/\/www.techwomen.org\/2015-program\/professional-mentorship-as-an-accelerator-to-career-development<\/a> ) I would be happy to see more governments join the US government in supporting such a wonderful cause like the Techwomen programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abiola with Mentors from Symantec Corporation participating at The 2015 Grace Hoppers Conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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