I didn’t fall in love with tech by accident. I had access.

I didn’t fall in love with tech by accident, I had access. As a child, I was allowed to explore. And where I wasn’t, curiosity pushed me anyway. My mum never stopped me from using her phone, and that made a difference.

In Basic 4, I touched a laptop for the first time. It belonged to Rev. Father Dagadu Eric. He noticed me and encouraged me in small ways, even buying me snacks when he was around. That moment stayed with me.

In Basic 7, an internet café near the Hohoe Post Office, Front Line Internet Café, came to our school to enroll students in computer lessons. My mum paid without hesitation. Our first lesson was simple: create folders, then more folders, then drag and drop them into shapes on the desktop. Basic tasks, but I was hooked. From then on, I spent whatever money I had at the café. Thirty minutes at a time watching YouTube, playing flash games, exploring. That was my breakthrough.

Exposure, on purpose

Now imagine giving children that kind of exposure early, on purpose. Not just access to computers, but guidance. Coding with Scratch. Real tools. Even AI.

What starts as play becomes skill. Curiosity turns into competence. And over time, competence drives innovation.

That’s how societies grow.

CodeNest

That’s the idea behind CodeNest, a place where young people explore, build, and turn curiosity into real skills.

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