Lagos, Nigeria – April 28, 2022 – African technology giant, SystemSpecs, has called for entries into the 30th anniversary edition of its annual Children’s Day Essay Competition in Nigeria with an extended deadline of April 29, 2022.
John Obaro, Group Managing Director, SystemSpecs
The 2022 SystemSpecs Children’s Day Essay Competition is the third in a row, organised by SystemSpecs, in furtherance of the Fintech, Human Resource and eCommerce solutions provider’s commitment to the development of indigenous technology capacity for national prosperity in Africa’s most populous country. The competition also aims to provide Nigerian children with an opportunity to contribute to addressing national issues through technology-led thinking and initiatives.
In the previous two editions, over 4000 entries were received from students in all states in Nigeria. The 2022 edition of the competition exists in two categories – Junior (age 9-12 years) and Senior (age 13-16 years) and is open to primary and secondary school students in Nigeria, who are to write on the topic, “Improving the Quality of Education in Nigeria through Technology.” All entries are to be submitted through the competition portal, www.systemspecs.com.ng/2022essay. Entries submitted outside the portal are invalid.
Entries into the junior category should not exceed 1,000 words, while the senior category should not exceed 1,500 words. Also, in line with SystemSpecs committment to encouraging ingenuity, the company has indicated that all essays must reflect participants’ original ideas, be devoid of plagiarism, and written in English.
According to SystemSpecs’ Head of Corporate Services, Oluwasegun Adesanya, “The schools with top entries in the junior and senior categories would be rewarded with high capacity computers and an end-to-end payment, collections and funds management system to boost their capacity for technology-led education.”
Adesanya also stated that the top three individual winners in both categories will be rewarded with prizes that include laptops and free uLesson Coding School certificate courses, as well as monthly 40GB Internet data for a year. They will also gain automatic admission to the SystemSpecs’ National Summer Coding Camp.
In recognition of SystemSpecs’ 30th anniversary celebration, there shall be 30 honour roll awardees in 2022 against 20 in prior years. Honour roll awardees are essay winners whose scores are in the very top bracket among participants.
The organiser of the competition, SystemSpecs, is a 30-year-old pioneering technology powerhouse in Africa, providing financial, human capital technology and ecommerce solutions and services. SystemSpecs is also famous for products like payment platform, Remita; human capital management solution, HumanManager; and ecommerce platform, Paylink. The firm recently spun off its operations into two subsidiaries – Remita Payment Services Limited (RPSL) and SystemSpecs Technology Services Limited (STSL).
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