A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Women Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC), has completed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) empowerment summer camp for 24 girls drawn from some secondary schools in Lagos.

According to reports, the two weeks intensive Summer Camp was held at Laureates College and Kiddies Kingdom Private School, Mafoluku, Oshodi.

The training tagged: “SheCreatesCamp”, with the theme “Solve with AI”, according to the organizers was necessitated primarily to target more females to embrace technology and its immense opportunities.

The Chief Executive Officer of W.TEC, Mrs Oreoluwa Lesi, informed NAN on the sideline of the event that the organization was seeking ways to encourage more women in the STEM – Science, Technology Engineering and Maths – career path.

“We target women and girls because of the unfavorable statistics that show that women are under-represented in the technology space and not just tech alone but the broad spectrum of STEM.

“When we look at the numbers of women who are studying and working in the STEM field, it is very low. Looking at the numbers of women studying STEM degrees across the world, they only make up 36 percent while the rest are men.

“In Nigeria, the figures we have show that we only have 22 percent of women in engineering and technology.

“We are targeting these young girls because we want to catch them young, while some of them have yet to make up their minds on the career path they want to take.

“We chose the topic `Solve with AI” so as to introduce the topic to younger girls, we want to assist them to make informed decisions about their careers.

“We are providing workshops, seminars and summer camps like this so that the little children can think about themselves and possibly pursue a career in tech or generally STEM fields.