MY TECH DREAM
“I am transitioning in to tech because there are so many opportunities and I want to help build things that will have a long term positive impact and solve problems”. This words stated above happens to be the my reason of transitioning into tech.
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As a young boy who grew in a remote village with few or no access to computers; I have always asked myself so many questions as related to computer software. I always see myself caught up in the imagination of how software applications tends to deliver lots and load of information to the end users. I have asked myself questions on how software are able to generate invoice, receipt, make payments, identify locations, communicate and compile bits of data into information. As I asked myself this unending question, I had lesser opportunity to get answers to my questions; spanning from the fact that my computer teachers in school made the subject least interesting to me, due to their lack of competence and unending punishments. I gave up my dream of gaining the know-how of software application and becoming a tech expert.
Recently, I was surfing the net and came across an advertisement from Williams Uchemba. The advertisement was about a Tech summit that will hold in Enugu, Nigeria. From the advertisement tagged TXE Summit; a promising summit which I decided to attend, because it advised on entrepreneurship and Tech skills but the one that drew my attention the most was the scholarship and free laptops that was to be given to the best participants in that summit. I quickly sign up for the meeting and added it to my calendar . when the summit came I was opportune to attend and participate in the summit which was a huge success on its own. After the summit, we were promised of a continues reminder, on further steps to be taken in other to win the scholarships and participate in the master class.
As I waited, I received a mail from the TXE crew. The mail stated that I can join the TXE community and possibly get the scholarship. I jumped in immediately, joined the telegram group, opened a Slack account and followed all the procedures required by the team. Once in a while, I did receive a mail from the team assuring me that they are working on our enrolment. Today I received my first mail on the onboarding session and this to me is a beginning of a lifetime dream. I’m so grateful to Williams Uchemba and all the organisers of TXE summit for coming up with such a transforming Vision. My dream of become a Tech expert is becoming a reality!
