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The Diocese of Nnewi Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) has acceptable up the archetypal Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics Hub successful Nnewi, Anambra State, wherever the religion recorded the archetypal of its benignant work successful the state and, perhaps, successful Africa. At a ceremonial to committee the hub astatine Bishop Uzodike Memorial Seminary, the elated Bishop of the Diocese, Rt. Rev’dNdubuisi Obi, said the religion has taken a elephantine leap into the aboriginal with the constitution of the hub.
He recalled that 3 years ago, the religion embarked connected a travel that immoderate thought was a spot ambitious and wild.
Disclosing however the religion taught their secondary schoolhouse students astir Robotics coding and AI, Obi said: “We went from Sunday sermons to coding classes, from supplication meetings to AI workshops. And you cognize what, our students loved it.
“Our students didn’t conscionable privation to learn, they privation more. They privation to excavation deeper, research further and beryllium much than conscionable participants. They privation to beryllium creators, innovators and leaders successful the caller technological world.And arsenic their Bishop, I could not conscionable beryllium backmost and ticker their enthusiasm fizzle out. We needed to find a mode to support this momentum going, prolong their interest, and provender their curiosity.
Narrating however the thought was conceived, Obi said: “We knew it was a monolithic project, so, we decided to rotation up our sleeves and physique a laboratory that would not lone prolong our students’ interest, but besides enactment our Diocese connected the representation arsenic a person successful exertion education.”
The Bishop applauded the partner, EDUFUN Technik, led by Uchenna Onwuamegbu-Ugwu, for making the task a reality. Noting that the Diocese was planting seeds of innovation, the Bishop said the students would beryllium inspired to prosecute careers successful cutting-edge fields, including Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Data Science, Cybercrime Security and IoT, among others.
He said immoderate of them would go AI engineers, Robotics specialists, bundle developers oregon tech entrepreneurs. Onwuamegbu-Ugwu successful effect expressed delight to beryllium portion of the occurrence communicative of the project, describing it arsenic a spot wherever the aboriginal begins.
She disclosed that the travel started 10 years agone erstwhile she had a imaginativeness to bring technology, coding, and Robotics into the lives of the students. She said she started going from schoolhouse to school, 1 diocese to another, to stock the imaginativeness and besides to impulse the religion authorities to follow the programme for its potentialsin the children’s future.
I knocked connected galore doors, traveled to antithetic places and spoke to antithetic leaders without overmuch effect until 2021 erstwhile I yet met the Bishop of Diocese of Nnewi Anglican Communion, Rt. Rev’dNdubisi Obi, and I was assured with certainty that erstwhile the Bishop hears astir this, it volition beryllium a done deal.
“From the infinitesimal Bishop andI spoke, I knew this was a turning point. His vision, his enactment and his unwavering committedness to the aboriginal of his students were thing abbreviated of inspiring.
“He saw the imaginable of this programme and understood that it was not conscionable astir keeping up with the times, but besides astir giving our children the tools they request to excel, thrive and pb successful this rapidly changing world. He wants the champion for his children,” she said.
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