I Want To Connect The Blind To Internet – AUN’s Best Graduating Student
The American
University of Nigeria’s (AUN) best graduating student, Cameroonian
born, Gregory Tanyi, has said his passion and long term goal is to help
the blind and people with disabilities by connecting them to the
Internet of things.
He disclosed this to journalists on Saturday during the 2016
graduation ceremony of 209 students of the school in Yola, Adamawa
State.
Tanyi, who graduated with a first class honours in
Telecommunications and Wireless Technology from the developmental
university, said his family background helped him in achieving that
feat.
According to him, his
father is a Professor in Engineering while his uncle who raised his
father up, was the first Cameroonian to get a Ph.D in Mathematics.
The best graduating student who enthused about his achievements
said he was going to miss the school and the friends he made even as he
plans to travel for a while to relax before he embarks on his
internship.
Meanwhile, the President of AUN, Prof Margee Ensign has assured
that the first class of 2016 graduates are going to live out the mission
of the institution.
She said these last four years have defined what it means to be a development university.
”Our students are active
participants of the huge success of our community outreach programme.
They are refining of what it means to be a student of Africa’s
developmental institution.”
She commended former
Vice President Atiku Abubakar for his singular contributions to the
development of the university, saying that no one has contributed to
higher education than him, “I’ve got to tell the story.”
Saying that the
university was sending the graduating students out to solve problems,
Ensign noted that the literacy programmes of AUN could wipe out
literacy in the state in less than three years.
The AUN president also disclosed that the university was pioneering the use of technology in Yola and in the North East as a
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