OAU is also inclusive in innovation. The WIE OAU Student Branch celebrated its 2025 Week with a strong outreach, entitled The STEM Outreach That Almost Didn’t Happen.

On June 25th, 2025, after some ups and downs in the morning, the team persevered and attended Our Lady Girls High School where 276 young girls attended an inspiring interactive session.

The programme also exposed the students to the international IEEE Women in Engineering network making them realise that they can also fit in the technology and innovation world.

Toyibah Badmus, the Chair of the WIE OAU, was a very interesting speaker on the subject of Women in STEM, and Timilehin Ayo Saliu-Aina managed to break down the concept of cybersecurity into things that the girls could relate to daily. An interactive Phishing Email Game, where the students became acquainted with how to recognize and evade scams online, was one of the highlights of the day and a fun experience.

The event under the supervision of the Outreach Lead Mojirade Adekanmi and 28 committed volunteers was successful. The day was not only concluded with smiling faces but also with something more, a ray of faith in the hearts of hundreds of girls who now have the possibility to see themselves as future engineers, technologists, and innovators.