Amanda Obidike🇺🇸
Strategy Lead at STRMi Makers of Africa
About Amanda Obidike
Strategy Lead at STRMi Makers of Africa
Amanda Obidike is the CEO of STEMi Makers Africa, an initiative where she developed a first-to-market, teacher-centred learning management solution for African educators to organize virtual lab sessions, assign project-based work with little or no internet required and assign research assignments to students as they build, create, and pursue STEM and Innovation careers. Through this innovation, she became a Breakthrough of the Year Finalist - Falling Walls, Berlin and Global 20 Goldman Sachs winner. She has also been celebrated by Forbes Science as an African changing the culture fabric for young talents to embrace opportunities in Science and Technology. Being under-employed in 2017 made her realize that 83.5% of graduates do not have the required technical skills for lucrative and meaningful jobs available in Nigeria. Her professional goal addresses the leaky unemployment pipeline, the under-representation of young women and girls in STEM and the integration of STEM education in classrooms across Sub-Saharan Africa. She emerged 40 Under 40 in the Economic Development Award, a Techwomen Awardee by the U.S. Department of State, 50 most influential women in Nigeria and Winner in the UK’s foremost award, the FDM EveryWoman in Technology in 2022. Amanda is also a Researcher at the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab and was recently a UN Women UK delegate for the CSW67 in 2023.