Brain Teaser (Day 4)

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The Nigerian Geniuses started the day with a brain teaser and were tasked with constructing a water tank tower using straws and tape. The water tank tower should have a minimum height of 30cm and be able to carry a load of 250 liters.

Team FUTMinna

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The team built a tower using spaghetti strands, superglue, and masking tape. They took time to build a solid foundation but couldn’t build a high tower.

Team YabaTech

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Team YabaTech Using spaghetti strands, masking tape, and super glue, the Nigerian Geniuses from YabaTech built the tallest tower. Their tower was able to carry weight. The team was rewarded accordingly.

Team UNIUYO

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The team built a high tower using the resources made available to them. Their design met most of the judges criteria.

Team ABU Zaria

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The team effectively utilized the short time they had to build a tower that met the minimum requirement they were given.

Brain Teaser (Day 3)

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The Participants were asked to build a tower with spaghetti strands, masking tape, and super glue. The tower will be rated based on its height and how straight it is. The tower should be able to carry some weight.

Team YabaTech

The Nigerian geniuses from Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Lagos, also built a tower with the spaghetti strands, masking tape, and super glue. Their design was the tallest among all, earning them 10 points.

Team FUTMinna

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The Nigerian geniuses from the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, built a rigid tower that was able to carry some weight. However, their tower didn’t come out as the tallest.

Team Uniuyo

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The geniuses from the University were able to build a tower with spaghetti strands, super glue, and masking tape. Their tower stood straight and carried some weight.

Team ABU Zaria

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The Nigerian geniuses from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria built a beautiful tower. Their tower was the strongest and was able to carry weights. They won second place against YabaTech, which has the tallest tower.

Nigeria has a food crisis!

Few days ago, the president declared a state of emergency on food insecurity. The average Nigerian spends over 60% of their income on food, compared to less than 10% in developed nations..

Engineers can help to solve Nigeria’s biggest problems, including food insecurity. In this second edition of The Nigerian Genius National Engineering Competition, the finalists from four tertiary institutions were given the challenge to solve Nigeria’s food crisis. Within two weeks, they’re designing and building a Farming Robot to mechanize and automate farming, scaling food production and securing the lives of farmers. Today is Day 13.

You can vote for your favorite institution on the comment section by writing the name the school.

Brain Teaser – Day 2

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The Nigerian geniuses were tasked with designing and building a prototype bridge using toothpicks, superglue, and sellotape. The bridge is expected to have a minimum length of 20cm and should be able to carry a can of malt (33 cl) and a bottle of water (75 cl).

Each team will be judged based on their innovation, aesthetics, clarity of presentation, etc.

Team Uniuyo

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The geniuses from the University of Uyo constructed a bridge using toothpicks and tapes. Their creative ability was perfectly crafted in their work.

Team YabaTech

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The YabaTech team designed and constructed a bridge using the resources given to them. Their work was rated accordingly.

Team Futminna

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The Geniuses from Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State constructed a bridge using toothpick and sellotape. They were able to create a rigid bridge that was able to carry both a 75cl bottle water and a 35cl can malt. This gave them a leading point.

Team ABU Zaria

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The Nigerian Geniuses from Ahmadu Bello University constructed a prototype bridge using toothpicks and sellotape. Their design was creative and great.

Brain Teasers!

Each morning the Geniuses are asked to solve some form of puzzle that requires thinking in unconventional ways with given constraints in mind.

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This helps to test their innovative and problem solving skills. Each team is expected to come up with a design that will be tested based on creativity.

Team FUTMinna

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The team from Federal University of Technology Minna received a work box containing safety kits and work tools. 

They were asked to build any furniture found in the house using a carton, sello tape, gum etc.

Check out the excellent work done by the team.
Team Futminna came first and they were awarded 10 points.

Team YabaTech

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The Geniuses from Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Lagos, received their work kits containing safety kits and work tools. They built a table and a shelf..

Team Uniuyo

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The team from University of Uyo received a work box containing safety kits and work tools. With the resources they had, they built a stool.

Below is the picture gallery of their work.

Team ABU Zaria

The Geniuses from Ahmadu Bello University received their work box as well. The team’s creativity was evident as they built a multipurpose shelf.

Nigerian Genius – CNC Machining

The Nigerian Genius engineering competitors were introduced to CNC machining processes. They learnt how to set up the machine and as well choose the correct tool to perform a particular operation

They machined a water bottle mold.

Nigerian Genius – Adjustable Stool

Adjustable stools designed and fabricated by the Geniuses.

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Ibrahim from Ahmadu Bello University recounts his journey so far in the Nigerian Genius Engineering Competition, as he is now well equipped with industrial skills.

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We designed, cut, drilled and welded different components to build an adjustable stool. Dodgban Mankanjuola from Yaba College of Technology (YabaTech)

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We fabricated and welded single adjustable stool. Umanah Peter from @Uniuyo said the session was an exciting one for him and his team.

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Watch as Omotosho Azeez from Federal University of Technology Minna explained how they determined the electrical components used for power supply.

Nigerian-Genius

The Genius are developing solutions to improve processes like manufacturing, production and construction by evaluating and testing the structural integrity of parts and components of their solutions.