{"id":1293,"date":"2025-01-14T11:36:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T11:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2025-01-14T11:36:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T11:36:43","slug":"the-women-techsters-fellowship-program-2025-for-young-girls-and-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"The Women Techsters Fellowship Program 2025 for young girls and women."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Application Deadline:\u00a0<strong>Friday<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>31st January 2025\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Applications are now open for the<\/strong>\u00a02025 Women Techsters Fellowship Program. The\u00a0<strong>Women Techsters Fellowship<\/strong>\u00a0program is a FREE 1-year experiential learning technology upskilling program that empowers young girls and women, ages 16 to 40 years across Africa with global\u00a0in-demand skills relevant to kickstart careers and businesses in technology. The program aims to bridge the digital and technology knowledge divide between men and women in the technology ecosystem and ensure equal access to technology opportunities for women and girls.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Women Techsters Fellowship<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0a highly competitive program, admitting only the top 3% of applicants. It\u00a0is a comprehensive 1-year program divided into two phases: the first 6 months focus on in-depth technical and soft skill training, while the last 6 months provide practical work experience, that includes opportunities for internships, volunteering, freelancing, entrepreneurship, and mentoring. This ensures that participants gain real-world experience and can apply their newly acquired skills in real world scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>Focus Area<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>DevOps,\u00a0Cybersecurity,\u00a0Data Science and Engineering,\u00a0Mobile Application Development,\u00a0Product Design,\u00a0Product Management,\u00a0Software Development (Front End\u00a0and\u00a0Backend Development).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ideal Fellows<\/p>\n<p>An ideal fellow is an African woman who embraces empathy, humility, and inclusion as guiding values. She is a self-starter committed to learning with and supporting a network of culturally distinct women. She is committed to collaborating to develop herself and the continent through the digital skills acquired from the fellowship program.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to these guiding values and traits, we are looking for intellectual rigor, vision, research skills, curiosity, openness, kindness, and much more. A Women Techsters Fellow is a woman who will champion inclusion and equality in the tech ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>She;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u2022 Is willing to dedicate time<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Is hardworking<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Is a team player<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Identifies tech as a propeller for her future<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For More Information:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=2wYhaHuaNUu5oIhHM4XWz8iOKTI-VPdBrttVOLENCb9UMFdBMzZKQzNCN1ExWDAwTUNQUVdKODVERS4u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=2wYhaHuaNUu5oIhHM4XWz8iOKTI-VPdBrttVOLENCb9UMFdBMzZKQzNCN1ExWDAwTUNQUVdKODVERS4u\">Visit the Official Webpage of the Women Techsters Fellowship Program<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Application Deadline:\u00a0Friday,\u00a031st January 2025\u00a0 Applications are now open for the\u00a02025 Women Techsters Fellowship Program. The\u00a0Women Techsters Fellowship\u00a0program is a FREE 1-year experiential learning technology upskilling program that empowers young girls and women, ages 16 to 40 years across Africa with global\u00a0in-demand skills relevant to kickstart careers and businesses in technology. The program aims to bridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1K2_DA:productID":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-fellowships"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}