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The story behind this website is simple.
At my workplace, I would walk all the way to the cafeteria and then hear the same thing: "The food is not ready yet," or "That meal is not available." Sometimes it happened back to back. So I started wondering what could be done about it.
The story behind this website is simple.
At my workplace, I would walk all the way to the cafeteria and then hear the same thing: "The food is not ready yet," or "That meal is not available." Sometimes it happened back to back. So I started wondering what could be done about it.
The hardest part was speed.
If a meal is switched to unavailable and someone checks 15 seconds later, they need to see that change. If the update takes too long to show, then the whole problem is still there. I kept improving it until updates showed up fast enough to be trusted.
Today i learned what a Rosetta Stone means.
In ancient times, it was used by the French soldiers to decode language/information.
In modern time, it describes something that gives a clue to a mystery or hidden information. Like a master-key. 🤔
Honestly, I didn’t think I was going to win this. So many great and expert minds.
But somehow, game after game, I kept making it through.
And before I knew it, I was standing there with the medal.
Still feels a little unreal, thank you SQI for a space like this in Ogbomoso.♟️❤️
Chessboard in Ogbomoso: How a Small Tournament Grew into Something Bigger
Today, students, staff and young people gathered at SQI College of ICT, (@sqicict) Ogbomoso, for a one-day chess tournament. The plan was simple: a board, a room, and a chance to compete, learn and sit with one another. SQI is one of the beneficiaries of chessboards gifted by The Gift of Chess, placed there through our Chief Content Writer, Minkail Olaitan. Somewhere between the opening moves and the last games, those boards became more than a donation. They became a day.
Tunde Onakoya, founder of Chess in Slums Africa, joined virtually from Ghana. Coach Russ, President of Gift of Chess International, was present too. For a while the distance between Ogbomoso, Ghana and the wider chess world did not matter. There was only the board, and people who believed in what it can do.
That belief fits SQI’s work since 2008: making Africa a tech continent, one mind at a time. Technology does not change a continent by itself. Minds do — minds trained to think, build, wait, calculate and live with consequence.
Sometimes that training is code. Today it was sixty-four squares and a single instruction: think.
Ogbomoso is not Lagos or Abuja. It is a historic city where young people are already building lives, businesses and classrooms the global conversation often misses. A tournament here will not be remembered first for who won. It will be remembered as a gifted board finding a school, a school becoming a meeting place, and a Friday becoming a memory. There was a chessboard in Ogbomoso today. Tomorrow is still unplayed. @Minkailola1
Chessboard in Ogbomoso: How a Small Tournament Grew into Something Bigger
Today, students, staff and young people gathered at SQI College of ICT, (@sqicict) Ogbomoso, for a one-day chess tournament. The plan was simple: a board, a room, and a chance to compete, learn and sit with one another. SQI is one of the beneficiaries of chessboards gifted by The Gift of Chess, placed there through our Chief Content Writer, Minkail Olaitan. Somewhere between the opening moves and the last games, those boards became more than a donation. They became a day.
Tunde Onakoya, founder of Chess in Slums Africa, joined virtually from Ghana. Coach Russ, President of Gift of Chess International, was present too. For a while the distance between Ogbomoso, Ghana and the wider chess world did not matter. There was only the board, and people who believed in what it can do.
That belief fits SQI’s work since 2008: making Africa a tech continent, one mind at a time. Technology does not change a continent by itself. Minds do — minds trained to think, build, wait, calculate and live with consequence.
Sometimes that training is code. Today it was sixty-four squares and a single instruction: think.
Ogbomoso is not Lagos or Abuja. It is a historic city where young people are already building lives, businesses and classrooms the global conversation often misses. A tournament here will not be remembered first for who won. It will be remembered as a gifted board finding a school, a school becoming a meeting place, and a Friday becoming a memory. There was a chessboard in Ogbomoso today. Tomorrow is still unplayed. @Minkailola1