Parents have been urged to encourage children to embrace Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education because education had gone beyond the traditional classroom and technologically inclined.
The appeal, which was made in different interviews with newsmen in Lagos, said that “Traditional classrooms should not be depended on totally and that STEM encouraged creativity and entrepreneurship”.
The President, Codefest International, Mr Moss Uromtah, said that technology had taken over the world and Nigerian children should not be left out but to be more creative and proactive towards technology.
Uromtah said that the college certificate should not be the end of education, as several opportunities abound in Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
According to him, the STEM education makes children creative and improves their reasoning as well as assist students…