Entries opens for SystemSpecs’ Children’s Day contest

Entries have started coming in for the 2022 National Children’s Day Essay Competition to enhance capacity development of children through technology. SystemSpecs Group, a leading financial and ecommerce software firm, in a statement, said it organizes the annual competition for children of between nine and 16 years. It asked participants to submit entries on the […]

Entries have started coming in for the 2022 National Children’s Day Essay Competition to enhance capacity development of children through technology.

SystemSpecs Group, a leading financial and ecommerce software firm, in a statement, said it organizes the annual competition for children of between nine and 16 years.

It asked participants to submit entries on the topic “Improving the Quality of Education in Nigeria through Technology”, through the competition portal from March 21 till April 20, 2022.

Entries into the junior category should not exceed 1,000 words while entries into the senior category should not exceed 1,500 words.

The schools that produce the top winning participants in junior and senior categories would be rewarded with 10 and 20 high-capacity personal computers respectively, aside other benefits including a setup of their school for end-to-end electronic funds collection and payment.

The first-place winner of the competition in each category of this year’s edition of the competition will respectively receive a high-capacity laptop, a top-notch headphone, free uLesson certificate courses, monthly 10 gigabyte Internet data for one-year, branded travel suitcase, a unique keepsake hoodie, a thermal flask and school bag.

Top three winners in each category will gain automatic admission to the SystemSpecs National Summer Coding Camp. Top 30 Honour Roll winners in both categories—15 per category—will also be handsomely rewarded, it noted.

“We commenced the SystemSpecs Children’s Day Essay Competition in 2020 to provide an opportunity for students across Nigeria to share fresh, bright and original ideas capable of transforming our country positively,” said its Group Head, Corporate Services, Segun Adesanya.