Abuja students trained on games invention, video animation

Some pupils and students across select schools in Abuja have received training on how they can develop games and produce video animation. At the sessions last week, the promoter, Rachael Ejoke of Starryclassix Limited in Gwarinpa, Abuja told the Daily Trust the imperatives of developing these skills in youth as the practice is growing the […]

Some pupils and students across select schools in Abuja have received training on how they can develop games and produce video animation.

At the sessions last week, the promoter, Rachael Ejoke of Starryclassix Limited in Gwarinpa, Abuja told the Daily Trust the imperatives of developing these skills in youth as the practice is growing the United States and other developed countries.

Explaining the concept, Rachael said these trainings are designed to arouse the curious minds of youngsters towards developing creative entrepreneurial skills in the technology world.

She said: “The games and animation business is worth billions of dollars today. It is part of the growing trend of the 21st Century for which Nigerian parents should encourage their wards to urgently tap into this and just being the consumers. 

“For example, Scrabble Board Game, Chess Board Game, Monopoly Board Games are popularly sold in Nigeria and have social extracurricular clubs in schools and other settings. But none of them were invented by Nigerians,” Rachael noted.

The application and games inventor said Nigerians need to seize the financial opportunities to create businesses out of these concepts including cartoons for which Walt Disney has become a popular brand in Nigeria. 

She said “Our children and youth enjoy watching Animation/Cartoon Series on satellite television while parents spend millions monthly on pay TV who then pays the cartoon makers. But at what point will parents begin to invest in their children to acquire these skills and create Nigerian cartoons?”

For the unemployed youth, she urged them to acquire entrepreneurial skills on games invention and animation creation to thrive “at this time when most youth are unemployed and our economy needs to be diversified.”

The bi-weekly sessions tagged ‘Games Invention and Video Story Animation Creation Training’ had participants from primary and secondary classes in Cherryfield International Nursery and Primary School, Pacesetters Academy and Unity Montessori School Kubwa.  Some of the participants include, Sammy Tobenna Nwachukwu, Sholape Babalola, Timi Babalola, Similoluwa Babalola, Isabella Ibogbe, and Fatima Mufida Dauda. The others are, Mahmud Affan Dauda, Zulaiha Aafreen Dauda, Jude Copeman, and Yusuf Abdulkareem. 

The Words Barn Card Game inventor said her team strongly believes that having such skills for entrepreneurship opportunities should be the goal of most parents for their children to achieve additional financial empowerment while pursuing a career path.