Team ‘Tech Farm Institute’ from Ladoke Akintola University of
Technology has won the
national level of Hult Prize competition held in Abuja and will now be competing
for a grand prize of $1 million at the finals in London.
Members of Team Farm Institute will be joining other
national winners from top universities around the world for an 8-week-long
training that will transform their ideas into startups for a chance to win $1
million.
Members of Team Tech Farm Institute are Samson Ogunfuwa (400L
Urban and Regional Planning), Similoluwa Akande (400L
Crop Production and Soil Science), and Barnabas Adejinmi(200L
Management & Accounting).
Commenting on their win, Similoluwa said: “I cannot particularly point
out something as making us win. We received God's favour that's for sure and we
also had help from a lot of people who we ran out project by and they helped us
look at things even better than we were doing.”
“We weren't just focused on Hultprize we were
determined to take the business to the next level with or without Hultprize so
we gave ourselves totally to the project and we also opened our work to
criticism which helped us see things through the eyes of others and make
improvements, she
added.
Two other teams from LAUTECH, Team Green School and Team
Skymax, also participated at the national round alongside Team Tech Farm
Institute.
Hult Prize is an annual, competition that crowd sources
ideas from students after challenging them to solve a pressing social issue
around topics such as food security, water access, energy, and education. –
Pulse.NG
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