The five Anambra girls Secondary School Onitsha representing Nigeria and Africa won Gold Medal

The five Anambra girls from Regina Pacies Secondary School Onitsha who represented Nigeria and Africa at the World Technovation Encounter in the Silicon Valley in San Francisco, US last night have won the Gold Medal in the contest.

The squad, led by Uchenna Onwuamaegbu Ugwu crushed representatives of other technological monsters including the USA, Spain, Turkey, Uzbekistan and China to clinch the gold medal.

The Anambra girls who have now come to be Africa’s Golden Girls is made up of five brilliant girls including; Promise Nnalue, Jessica Osita, Nwabuaku Ossai, Adaeze Onuigbo and Vivian Okoye.

The world winners who are reported to be attracting a lot of attention in the world’s greatest technological hub won the Challenge with a mobile application called the FD-Detector which they developed to help tackle the Challenge of fake pharmaceutical products in Nigeria.

Under the tutelage of Uchenna Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu the CEO of Edufun Technik STEM, the Golden Girls spent five months investigating and developing FD-Detector which swept through over 2000 competing applications to get to the finals in San Francisco.

Technovation is a programme that offers girls round the world the chance to learn the programming skills they need to surface as tech-entrepreneurs and leaders.

Every year, girls are demanded to recognize a problem in their societies, and then experiment them to solve them by developing Andriod applications that would address those problems.

115 countries partaken in the contestants but only 12 teams from all over the world were nominated as frontrunners for the pitch in Silicon Valley.

The girls will also be appearing Field journeys, life-changing workshops comprising a networking assembly throughout their one week stay in the USA.

The Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano had personally sent them off to the US in a brief ceremony at the last Executive Council Meeting where he urged the girls to place Nigeria and Africa on the global technological map with their exceptional endowment.