Abuja, Nigeria · 2019–2020 · past project
X-WOW Kids Science Club
University students in Abuja started a science club around a microscope, books and slides that X-WOW sent, to show schoolchildren the microbial world. X-WOW funded it. The students ran it.
What happened
One microscope, one club
In 2019 X-WOW sent a microbiology student in Abuja (A. M. F.) a microscope, children's books about microbes, slides and other teaching items. With them the student founded the X-WOW Kids Science Club in Abuja.
The team
A. M. F.: founder; microbiology.
O. I. A.: microbiology.
O. P. C.
G. F.
All were university students in Abuja at the time. X-WOW names no private person without their permission, so the team is credited by initials.
April 2020 · online
Virtual Microbiology Lectures Without Borders
When lockdown closed the classrooms, the club members organised Zoom lectures for microbiology students in Nigeria and invited volunteer lecturers to give them (shown by initials):
| # | Lecture | Lecturer |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Intro to the Microbiome | M. H. |
| 2 | Microbial Growth and Reproduction | J. L. |
| 3 | Microbial Metabolism | J. L. |
| 4 | Microscopes for Microbiologists | B. M. |
The bigger lecture series for veterinary and medical students followed that summer: see X-WOW Lecture Without Borders.
Sister club · Abuja, Nigeria
Future Vet Pathologists Club
A second club, also funded by X-WOW, run by veterinary students in Abuja. They tutored high-school and pre-university students in diagnostic veterinary pathology: how a microscope is used to find disease.
Its founder had received one of the re-homed microscopes from Back to Shine. In June 2020 the club co-organised a remote neuropathology lecture with a veterinary pathologist from a UK research institute, and its event page listed 878 more registered guests beside those pictured (registration was open to anyone).
The team
O. B. S.: founder and team leader.
O. M. O.
O. G. C.
A. D. I.
O. O. G.
Veterinary students in Abuja at the time, credited by initials (X-WOW names no private person without their permission).