13-year-old Emmanuella Oziofu Mayaki of Nigerian origin has set a new record as one of the youngest persons to be accepted into the University in the United States of America.
Emmanuella was accepted into the Program for the Exceptionally Gifted (PEG) at the Mary Baldwin University, United States of America to study Computer Science in the Spring.
Mayaki’s letter of admission made available to NAN in Benin read, “Dear Emmanuella, congratulations on your acceptance to the Programme for the Exceptionally Gifted at Mary Baldwin University! Welcome to the PEG class of 2026.”She scored a 91 percentile mark of 1,300 in her Scholastic Aptitude Test.
Emmanuella’s personal accomplishment at age 11, in the year 2020, was the setting up of an ICT Academy for girls in Abuja, Nigeria.
It was her mission to provide sustainable empowerment for the girl child to acquire digital skills and to close the gap on digital literacy and this academy was for training and equipping youngsters in digital technology.
It has a vision of securing the future of the girl-child.
The Academy named ‘CodeKid’, which was incorporated under the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990, on the second day of December 2020, with registration number (RC: 1741234), was set up to train the girl-child on the basics of computer literacy from the simplistic Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint to the more complex skills like programming and coding.
Her drive to share knowledge and positively impact people, especially the girl-child, led to her decision to launch the after-school, weekend and holiday club in Nigeria. This move was influenced by her highly educating United Kingdom (UK) after-school club experience, which she successfully duplicated in Nigeria.
Her focus is on the girl-child who falls within the age range of 6 to 15, and this included a beginners’ class to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) where newbies to the endless possibilities of ICT are tutored on Introduction to Computer, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Desktop Publishing, WordPress, Graphics design, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, among others such as object-oriented programming – Python and Java.Mayaki was first offered a teaching appointment in the UK while she was aged 11 at the Southfields Primary School in Coventry, England.Her preferred area of study is in the field of Computer Science.
NAN reports that her passion for Information and Communications Technology beginning from the basics of desktop publishing which includes Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Corel Draw came when she was aged just seven.
Her passion and rapid rate of learning the basics encouraged the young Mayaki to gain more knowledge about programming languages and augmented reality through online courses from SoloLearn and Udemy.
