‘Increased Investment in STEM to Drive Growth in Technology’

The Director, Design and Technology Innovation Company, Stanley Agwu, has called on the federal government to increase investment in Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) especially with a focus at entrenching the initiative at the primary school level in the country.

Agwu who disclosed at the recently in Lagos at the Interactive Presentation and Exclusive Networking Reception with HME Technology, said investment in the technology space would help drive growth, and increase Nigeria’s competitive in technology and manufacturing with the Western World.

He also stated that as a group they are focused at introducing design technology an initiative under STEM in primary schools, stressing that it is the foundational level where the mind of the child is formed and developed.

The technologist explained that the product they have developed is between N9, 500 and N10, 000 per child, adding that it would assist a child for one year period because it is curriculum based; and there are three kits stages (kit stage one, Kit stage two and kit stage three).

Agwu added that one of the kits would serve a child from primary one to two, while the second kit would serve from primary three to four, and the third kit would serve from five to six.

He further stressed that in each of these kits, they also have the teachers’ kits, stating that the teachers’ has their own lesson plan and the children have theirs, therefore he said they work together.