Three students of the University of Ibadan have been selected for the U7+ student challenge , holding in Cote D’Ivoire between May 15 -17 2024.
The students are Goodness Balogun and James Olayinka of the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, andVictoria Ayodeji of the Department of Food Technology.
The 2024 event is to be hosted by the Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INP-HB) Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire.
The challenge teams of the institutions selected are made up of three students
at any level, either undergraduate, graduate, or professional plus one faculty member or staff leader who will pitch an interdisciplinary project that tackles a local issue linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
Other universities where students were selected include University of Ottawa (Canada), University of Toronto (Canada),
Ecole Polytechnique (France), Indian Institute of Technology (India), Osaka University (Japan), Université Cheick Anta Diop (Senegal), and Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouet Boigny (Cote D’Ivoire).
