Emmanuella Mayaki, a 13-year-old Nigerian, has been offered admission into the programme for the exceptionally gifted at Mary Baldwin University in the United States to study computer science.
“Dear Emmanuella, congratulations on your acceptance to the Programme for the Exceptionally Gifted (PEG) at Mary Baldwin University! Welcome to the PEG class of 2026,” her admission letter reads.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the young tech developer and programmer scored a 91 percentile mark of 1,300 on her Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).
What you should know about Mayaki
Mayaki’s passion for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) beginning from the basics of desktop publishing which includes Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Corel Draw began at the age of seven.
At the age of 11, Mayaki launched CodeKid, an ICT academy for girls in Abuja.
The academy was set up to train the girl-child between the ages of six and 15 on the basics of computer literacy from simple Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and PowerPoint, Desktop Publishing, WordPress, graphics design, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, among others such as object-oriented programming: Python and Java.
CodeKid, an after-school, weekend and holiday club, was her mission to provide sustainable empowerment for the girl-child to acquire digital skills and close the gap in digital literacy, as well as train and equip youngsters with digital technology.
She was also offered a teaching appointment as a coding instructor at the Southfields Primary School, Coventry, England in 2020 where she was responsible for teaching other kids her age about the basics of coding, including HTML and CSS.
In 2021, Mayaki was featured in CBBC’s My Life series for the International Women’s Day celebration. That same year, she was nominated to be featured as a recipient in Microsoft’s Legacy Project Virtual Museum’s Women’s History Month Experience.
She was also identified as one of the most influential, ground-breaking female change-makers of our time, and an inspiration for young girls around the world.
In May 2022, she was nominated as a STEM icon by STEM Kids New York City.
Some of the courses and certificates she obtained in pursuing this preferred career are a certificate in HTML fundamentals course, a certificate in PHP tutorial course, a certificate in CSS fundamentals course and a certificate in SQL fundamentals course.
Also, she obtained a certificate in the JavaScript tutorial course and a certificate in the JQuery tutorial course. She went further to obtain a certificate in Logic Building, Python and Java programming.
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