Team UNILAG wins Google application contest

Posted by: stiphbami in Events Nov 25, 2012

*L-R: Bolutife Ogunsola, Willie Aniebiet, and Michael Adeyeri ; winners of the $20,000 prize in the

Three University of Lagos (UNILAG) students, have won the Google Apps Developer Challenge for the Enterprise/Small Business Solutions category in sub-Saharan Africa.

The students: Bolutife Ogunsola, Michael Adeyeri and Willie Aniebiet, created the Form+ application software; an interface that creates application forms by just dragging and dropping components. The user can create forms � such as curriculum vitae (CV) or r�sum� submission forms for businesses and coursework submission page for lecturer

Emeka Afigbo, Program Manager, Google, stated: �Our expectation is that this motivates more young Nigerian developers to develop apps that change the way we live in Nigeria and Africa at large.�

The winners were rewarded with Chromebooks and $20,000. They also won a grant worth $18,000 for their school�s department.

Source :Vanguard

We need more of this in Nigeria.congrats guys

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