Student winners of hackathon at CyberXchange receive N1m Facebook awards

Facebook sponsored a hackathon at the recent CyberXchange conference in Lagos and awarded N1 million to the student winners. Facebook sponsored a hackathon held in Nigeria, drawing applications from more than 250 young, talented students from across the country. Out of those, 63 students were chosen to come to the CyberXchange event and work for two days on their solutions to real-world security challenges. Each team built a prototype, created a presentation, and pitched their solution to a set of judges, including Yemi Saka of Ernst and Young, Babafemi Ogungbamila of Interswitch Limited, Regina Wallace-Jones of Facebook, and Bankole OluwafemiThe post Student winners of hackathon at CyberXchange receive N1m Facebook awards appeared first on Daily Times Nigerian Newspaper.
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