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 //**Government Secondary School Gwarinpa**// //is a dayschool founded in 1984 and is located in a semi rural area, Life Camp, Abuja, Nigeria. The school is endowed with beautiful flowers and landscape. The teachers are hard working as students are always engaged and they are highly disciplined, thanks to the effort put in by the new Principal Mr. Henry salami. The school has a population of about 926 students and a staff strength of 86 teachers and 21 nonteaching staff.// media type="custom" key="6886737"

media type="custom" key="10193835" //Our Student HelpDesk Program from Microsoft Partners In learning Program//  In 2006, Microsoft Partners in Learning and SchoolNet started working with the Ministry of Education to launch a new program: Student Helpdesk Training.

Student Helpdesk Training is designed primarily to give students the theoretical foundation and hands-on skills required to perform as help desk technicians in their schools. “Students are actually taught to take hardware apart, put it back together, and troubleshoot,” says Umar-Ajijola. “So if a teacher has a problem with a laptop, the students are called upon to fix it.”

Student Helpdesk also gives students other valuable skills, whether it’s building Web sites or learning more about specific applications. As a result, the program not only actively engages students in the ICT learning process and gives them a sense of responsibility and focus, but it also extends Nigeria’s “train the trainer” approach from teachers to the children themselves. The training spans subjects like performing routine maintenance and fixing faulty hardware to conducting more advanced software and networking tasks.

The Ministry had an aggressive plan to get started. First, it identified 29 government run schools in eight different states to participate, most of which were secondary schools. Each school had a computer lab

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