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Competing as Team Appsolute, the duo outshone strong contenders from Japan, Spain, Canada, and Peru to clinch the world title at the competition’s grand finale.
Two Nigerian girls have brought global recognition to the nation’s tech scene by winning the 2025 Technovation Global Summit (Beginner Division) with an artificial intelligence (AI) app created to combat drowsy and distracted driving.
The prodigies, 10-year-old Akachukwu Blessed Nwachukwu and Ifunanya Gabriella Okoye, both from Port Harcourt, Rivers State, developed Stay Woke, an AI-powered mobile app that uses facial recognition and voice interaction to detect driver fatigue in real time and issue alerts to prevent accidents.
Competing as Team Appsolute, the duo outshone strong contenders from Japan, Spain, Canada, and Peru to clinch the world title at the competition’s grand finale.
Technovation—the world’s largest tech entrepreneurship program for girls aged 8–18—recorded over 33,000 participants from 117 countries this year, with 11,000 completing the program and more than 3,200 tech-based solutions developed.
Their mentor, Somkenechukwu Mamah, founder of Code Ambassadors Academy, described the win as a breakthrough for African innovation.
“This victory proves that innovation knows no age or boundary. Akachukwu and Ifunanya have shown resilience, creativity, and courage, demonstrating that young people in Nigeria and across Africa can compete and win on the global stage,” he said.
The young innovators, trained through Code Ambassadors Academy—a STEM-accredited platform that has equipped over 7,000 Nigerian children with coding, robotics, AI, and de
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