[Challenge:Future] The Q Project
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THE Q PROJEC
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SO...WHAT IS THE Q PROJECT, ANYWAY?
1. A learning hub where young, innovative change makers with a passion for development and learning meet to study and implement information technology, entrepreneurial expertise with the opportunity to be mentored by one of Nigeria’s top ICT firms .
2. We use: Opencourseware (OCW) learning
combined with Quanteq ICT and professional training resources;
internship to provide participants with the skills and expertise to;
Develop and be leaders of their community.
Through this platform, The Q Project aims to accomplish what the education system of Nigeria has failed to: produce professional, self driven and highly innovative young minds who desire to develop themselves and their nation on a continuous and transitory level.
SO HOW DOES THE Q PROJECT HELP PARTICIPANTS?• While OCWs leave the learning to the
discretion of the learner, we encourage the learning be left to the discretion of the partners….
• Participants are paired up with a learning partner, decided upon by their interests in OCW and other professional and ICT resources made available by Quanteq. This ensures that both parties keep track of each other and grow together. They are required to send a weekly report of their progress to the {Project Coordinator)
• The project also gives participants the expertise and opportunity to confidently intern with Quanteq or any other organisation of their choice
• Participants are gauged on the individual’s passion and drive to learn and develop not only themselves, but their society and others around them.
Young people have little skills and even less money to afford spending fortunes to gain skills not acquired in school. With The Q Project youths can
acquire the necessary skills needed to succeed and the mentoring advice needed to know where to focus our boundless energy towards.
DID WE MENTION THAT IT’S FREE…?
THE Q PROJECT
WAY
ICT and Entrepreneuria
l Training:Use of OCW and
Quanteq resources for
the development of
skills and competencies
related to information
technology and entrepreneursh
ip to gain relevant
expertise to succeed in the professional
world
Mentorship: Availability of mentorship by
experienced staff and
invited guests to ensure relevant
professional and technical advise to the participants
Fosters Development
and Leadership skills:
The Q Project encourages its participant to
give back to the society by nurturing
young minds and using their
new found skills to
cultivate and sustain a better
world.
One side, a rotting education system in dire need of vision and new leadership; on the other side, global unemployment in a world where the highest population consist of youths.
Where ever you look, young
people are affected by these
main problems. What is worse, is
that most education al
institutions in Nigeria do not
teach life or professional skills
effectively or at all in a way that
could benefit their students.
despite the fact most young people
lack important skills to succeed in
the professional world, most desire
occupations they lack the
necessary skills for…
• Computer skills• Entrepreneurial skills• Innovation• Organisational skills• Lack of initiative • Leadership skills• Effective communication• Communication skills• Critical thinking• Problem solving
Since the unofficial inauguration of The Q Project on the 15th of September, 2012, skills gained and implemented are:
• Web and software development competencies fostered.
• Responsibility for one’s personal and professional development initiated.
• Effective communication skills cultivated.
• Entrepreneurship and project management skills developed
• Project and operations management• Leadership and teamwork fostered.• Greater level of initiative shown by
participants.• Improved networking skills.
The Q Project was Initiated Because……of the belief that the young people
of Nigeria needed a chance to
achieve greatness.
The opportunity to gain skills
needed and nurtured by industry
professional for the achievement of
innovation and development at a
professional atmosphere with only
one’s passion and dedication as
currency in exchange, is invaluable,
not just to the young people
involved, but also for the potential
developmental impact and globally
recognised personal and
professional achievements.