NerdzFactory Company has announced the continuation of the Experience AI programme in Nigeria for 2026, expanding a teacher capacity-building initiative that, in its first year, equipped 1,142 public secondary school educators across five southwestern states with foundational knowledge of artificial intelligence and the practical tools to introduce it in their classrooms. 

Delivered in partnership with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the free programme equips teachers with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to introduce AI concepts in classrooms through practical, accessible learning. Its curriculum is co-developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind.

Based on rigorous research, teaching materials include lesson plans, slide decks, videos, student activities, and assessments which introduces students to the foundations of AI. Following its inaugural year across Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, and Ekiti States, Experience AI now enters a more rigorous and immersive phase that pairs qualitative data collection from the 2025 cohort with the training of a new cohort of teachers. 

The 2025 cohort was reached through a blended virtual-and-physical model designed to extend learning to teachers in connected urban centres and underserved communities alike, with NerdzFactory facilitators delivering virtual sessions alongside full-day in-person workshops across the Southwest. Each participating teacher committed to cascading the learning to at least 50 students, placing the programme on a trajectory to reach more than 57,000 secondary school students. 

That work has drawn strong institutional support from state ministries of education across the Southwest, with senior officials, including Dr. Olabimpe Aderiye, Honourable Commissioner for Education in Ekiti State, participating in the first-year…