Aminat Oshodin

Founded an EdTech startup to provide STEM education to rural Nigerian girls, significantly increasing enrollment and literacy rates.

Aminat Oshodin is a Nigerian entrepreneur and social innovator who has made a transformative difference in education equity through her work with marginalized girls. Born in Lagos in 1989, she witnessed firsthand how systemic barriers prevented rural girls from accessing quality education. In 2015, she founded STEM Bridge, an education technology platform designed to deliver STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) curricula via mobile devices to schools in remote areas.

Through partnerships with NGOs like UNICEF and local governments, STEM Bridge deployed over 500 solar-powered learning hubs across 14 states by 2019. Her adaptive learning algorithms, developed with MIT Media Lab collaborators, enabled personalized education even in areas with unstable internet. By 2020, the program had increased girls' STEM enrollment rates by 300% in participating regions, with 85% of graduates pursuing tertiary education.

Oshodin's approach emphasizes cultural relevance, incorporating local languages and community-led mentorship programs. She was featured in NPR's 'Global Education Innovators' series (2018) and received the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation in 2019. Her work laid foundational infrastructure later adopted by Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Education in their national digital strategy.