Unn Student To Represent Nigeria At 2015 Google Summer Of Code...

A student of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Mr. Ilo Calistus, will represent Nigeria at the 11th edition of the Google Summer of Code programme.

Google Summer of Code is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects for top technology companies like Google, Mozilla, Encyclopedia of Life, etc.

Calistus, a final year student of the department of Computer Science and UNN Google Student Ambassador, was selected as the only student from Nigeria to contribute to the 55 million lines of code which has been written so far. He will be working for Syster, an Anita Borg Institute based in United States to develop an Android App for Peace Corp volunteers.
A total of 73 countries were represented in this year