The maiden edition of IT4YUS ANNUAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEBATE held on the 3rd day of March 2022, was indeed a success. In fact, expectations were surpassed. With the display of our young minds at the event, we are more than sure that with IT, the future is so beautiful.

Guests and students seated in the hall at the 2022 IT Debate

Students in purple and white uniforms watch from the audience

Students in green uniforms fill the hall

Rows of students from the competing schools in the hall

Judges at their table beside the trophies

A guest and students in the audience

Teachers, guests and students seated in the hall

THRILLED AUDIENCE

The event had over 350 people from different walks of life in attendance: teachers, business people, farmers, entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors, engineers, among others.

21 vibrant speakers graced the podium to represent their respective schools — New Haven Model Secondary School, Oshiri; Unity High School, Ugwu Oshiri; Comprehensive Secondary School, Oshiri; Community Secondary School, Oshiri and St. Michael’s College, Oshiri.

  • A St. Michael's College speaker in a maroon pinafore at the microphone

  • Judges taking notes at the table, trophies in front of them

  • A New Haven Model Secondary School speaker at the lectern

  • A Comprehensive Secondary School speaker in green makes her case

  • A speaker in green addresses the room as the St. Michael's team look on

  • A New Haven Model Secondary School speaker at the microphone

  • A Community Secondary School speaker in blue at the lectern

  • The Community Secondary School team seated in their blue uniforms

Good justice was done to the topics: Cryptocurrency: a Threat to Fiscal Stability; Elections in Nigeria should be Technologically Driven for Freeness and Fairness; Digital Divide is the Real Bane of Modern Societal Advancement, and Has Technology Come to Save the World or Destroy it?

After the preliminary rounds, New Haven Model Secondary School, Oshiri and St. Michael’s College, Oshiri, proceeded to the grand finale to slug it out on the topic: Digital Divide is the Real Bane of Modern Societal Advancement.

Three New Haven Model Secondary School students hold the 2022 trophy

The New Haven Model Secondary School team receive the trophy from a guest

Students, teachers and guests with certificates outside the venue

The winning New Haven Model Secondary School students celebrate with the trophy

The WINNER - NEW HAVEN MODEL SECONDARY SCHOOL OSHIRI

At the end of the event, New Haven Model Secondary School, Oshiri, emerged as the WINNER, St. Michael’s College, Oshiri, emerged the FIRST RUNNER-UP, while Comprehensive Secondary, School, Oshiri, emerged as the SECOND RUNNER-UP.

The journey is still on. The vision is to EMPOWER EVERY CHILD WITH ESSENTIAL IT SKILLS.