Experience AI Announces 2026 Rollout to Deepen AI Education Across Nigerian Secondary Schools
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.
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 rollout. The endorsement signals a growing regional consensus that AI literacy is no longer optional in Nigerian public secondary education.
The 2026 phase carries the programme forward on two fronts. The first is a structured qualitative data collection focused on teachers from the 2025 cohort, conducted through classroom observation visits, teacher reflection sessions, and student learning feedback activities. The exercise is designed to surface what effective AI integration actually looks like inside a typical Nigerian public classroom and to inform the design of future cohorts.
The second is the training of a new cohort of teachers across the participating states,currently in delivery, who are moving through the same blended virtual-and-physical model that proved successful in 2025, extending Experience AI to a new group of educators and broadening its footprint in Nigerian public secondary schools.
Across both phases, the Experience AI curriculum guides students through the fundamentals of artificial intelligence, how computers learn from data, bias in AI systems, large language models, AI safety, media literacy, and the career pathways emerging within the digital economy.
Speaking on the 2026 rollout, Omozele Umoren, Programmes Supervisor at NerdzFactory Company, said: “Nigerian public school teachers are ready for AI — the readiness is already there. What has been missing is structured access and examples that fit our curriculum and classroom realities. In 2026, we want to understand what effective AI integration actually looks like inside our schools: what is working, what teachers still need, and whether students are gaining real understanding.”
“We are delighted to be continuing our partnership with NerdzFactory as they grow the impact of Experience AI in Nigeria. Building on the strong foundations of the first year, we look forward to reaching thousands more teachers and students across the country – ensuring that young people in Nigeria, whatever their background, develop a foundational understanding of AI technologies and the role they can play in their lives.” Anna Burton-Corea, Director of Global Partnerships, Raspberry Pi Foundation
With a programme target of reaching 3,150 teachers and over 157,000 students nationwide, Experience AI is positioning itself as one of the most ambitious AI literacy efforts within the Nigerian public school system. NerdzFactory and the Raspberry Pi Foundation remain anchored in a simple conviction: that no Nigerian child, regardless of geography or income, should be left behind in the AI era.
