Owerri Agenda: Behind And In Front of The Scenes

Owerri Agenda might sound pretty familiar to my friends and might not to some. To those in dark about it, Owerri Agenda can simply be defined as a name created for everything related to the Digital Marketing part of CFi JAM Summit in Owerri this year. This blog post would probably earmark what went on before, all through and after the event. It was a success story worthy to be told.

The trio: +Taslim OKUNOLA, +Peace Itimi and +Joshua Josh 

It was March and I got a message from +Peace Itimi inviting me to join +Joshua Josh and her in a training event. Her fellowship organizes a summit annually which features syndicate sessions where students get to learn any trade of their choice. Obviously, Peace pushed it and they decided to add Digital Marketing to the list this year. The event was to hold in the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (244 miles from where I live) and I have never been to Owerri before.

I accepted this challenge as part of my GSA project. It was awesome planning how we are going to impact students before the event. I could remember Peace creating BBM and WhatsApp groups to discuss the agenda, curriculum, and the event at large. We got ourselves prepped for the days ahead.

A cross-section of students learning Digital Marketing

It was so awesome to get to Owerri and see lots of students interested in learning Digital Marketing. +Peace Itimi did an awesome briefing of the training and students were so thrilled. Indeed, modern technology is finding its way into the hearts of Nigerians with the help of advocates like Peace.

Behind The Scenes

+Joshua Josh and I would stay up late in the night in our hotel room to work on slides and other stuffs for the event. +Peace Itimi also stayed up late to send mails and coordinate the follow-up mechanism. We argued at some point just to ensure things work out.

After all, we also had fun. Josh and I played a prank on Peace even though it didn't really work out :)

In Front of The Scenes

+Taslim OKUNOLA handling a session

The training sessions were cool. At the beginning, we had hitches with sound, time and projector, we had to split the class into two to get the session going. We had an interactive and interesting class. They were eager to learn and asked so many questions to get things straight.

About Peace and Josh

I spent four days working with +Joshua Josh and +Peace Itimi and I learnt a lot about them. I would be summarizing all I learnt about them into a characteristic each.

+Joshua Josh and +Taslim OKUNOLA 

+Joshua Josh is a typical problem solver. He thinks everything is possible and he believe no problem is the worst. Just bring the problem and he would solve it.

+Peace Itimi handling a session

+Peace Itimi is a workaholic. She loves to work and she works a lot. She believes in impacting her immediate environment with quality hard work. She works so hard to get things done.

They are both inspirations. You cannot spend a day with them without getting inspired.

We were the youngest facilitators at the event and we trained more than 100 students about Digital Marketing and Google AdWords.

This is basically what we do as Google Student Ambassadors. We come in at any point possible to ensure that students get informed about modern technology. We travel as far as possible to impact and inspire students. I have come to know that we are not working for Google, rather we are working for our society.

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