Babcock University holds youth expo for secondary schools

To stimulate secondary school students on the consequentiality of technology as a veritable implement for development, the Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, last Wednesday, held its maiden Youth Expo Tech.

The event, held at the Central Cafeteria of the institution, brought students of different schools together under one roof, to sensitise them about the potentials innate in technology, as well as avail them in their culled vocations.

Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Ademola Tayo, disclosed at the event that its essence is to expose participants to the potentials intrinsical in technology.
In his view, if Nigerians were trepidacious of the negative aspect of technology, they would equipollently miss all the numerous advantages in it. So, there should be ways to handle it so that people won't utilize it for negative purposes.

"We invited motivational verbalizers from across the world to tell the students the advantage of technology. There are adolescent people in the Amalgamated States, who commenced at the age of 13 and 14 and can be reckoned with in the society today, because they utilize the platform of technology development," he explicated.

One of the verbalizers, Bradley Wade, who is the MD, ABE-Africa, advised the students to imbibe the seven qualities of prosperity: Strenuous exertion, discipline, integrity and character, consistency, risk appetite, trust and veracity.
He apprised them that prosperity is not only about paper qualification or degree, but the competency to embrace these qualities in order to have holistic inculcation.

"There is nothing better than strenuous exertion. Life is not facile; life is not fair. Life changes and as it changes, so additionally the goals and aspirations of human beings," he verbalized.

In his verbalization, the Senior Business Development Manager for Africa, CompTIA, Garreth Morris, an astronomically aptitudinal and purport-driven individual, enjoined the students to be focused and embrace principles of authenticity.