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David Oluwatobiloba Adeyemi
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David Oluwatobiloba Adeyemi (born 14 June 1997) is a Nigerian social entrepreneur and innovator who founded Ecogenic Solutions, a startup company that converts Fruit & Vegetable Waste products into cost effective and 100% safe multipurpose organic solutions. He won the Judges Choice Award of the Students Innovations Challenge, South West Nigeria Regional Finals in 2018 and winner of the 2019 SME 100 25Under25 Most Enterprising Youths in Nigeria under the Energy & Sustainability Category. He is a 2018 Social Innovative Program Fellow for LEAP Africa. Early Life and Education Adeyemi was born in Lagos, Nigeria on 14 June 1997. He started his educational journey at Amazing Grace Children School and later moved to Citizens Comprehensive College for his Senior Secondary School Certificate in 2014. Thereafter, he proceeded to Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo State for bachelor of science degree in Microbiology in 2018 and has a certificates in Global Health from John Hopkins School of Public Health. Career and Activism Adeyemi started his journey into the science world as a young 4-year-old boy when his grandpa who was a retired aeronautics engineer gifted him an encyclopedia titled “The Science of Everything” from volume 1-3. Through the book, he was able to learn how things work from Nature, Biology to Physics, Mechanics and that formed his foundation into the science world. When he was 10 years old, he started collecting different mobile phones of his visitors for research to the extent that his mom promised to punish him each time he did that and one day he collected his uncle's mobile phone and repaired the phone's sound system even when the phone tech's told the uncle that it was damaged beyond repair and that was the beginning of a new built of confidence in him into the science world. a startup company solution that produces produces cost-effective, eco-friendly, non-toxic and 100% safe Multipurpose Organic products from Kitchen Wastes (Fruits, Food & Vegetables) to prevent the hazardous effect of this waste and environmental degradation which was conceived while he was conducting a waste to energy survey around his vicinity in Ketu Ikosi fruit market. Adeyemi has attracted lot of attentions which include inventing Eco-E product, an invention multipurpose cleaner from recycling of fruits and kitchen wastes that has the ability of serving as pesticide, insecticide, detergent, fertilizer, water purifier, skin care agent, dishwasher, air freshener and purifier. He won the Lagos Model United Nations 2017 Idea Fair leading over 1200 youth delegates with his project called "Project ENERGEM" (Energy Generated from Methane) and in 2018 won the Judges Choice Award of the Students Innovations Challenge, South West Regional Finals. Adeyemi's vision is to promote sustainable living among individuals in poor and disorientated communities by providing indirect mass employment, sustainable power supply, recycled irrigation water for farmers and bio fertilizers. Awards and Recognitions * 2013, Futuristex Projects STEM Educator - Futuristex Projects, Scotland * 2014, 2nd Runner Up “ACE” Young Achiever Awards - Eduzine Global, United Kingdom. * 2014, Eduzine Global Young African Ambassador - Eduzine Global, United Kingdom * 2015, Nigerian Heritage Icon Ambassador of Youth. * 2017, Winner, Lagos Model United Nations Idea Fair. * 2018, SIP Fellow, LEAP Africa. * 2018, Winner, Judges Choice Award of the Students Innovations Challenge, South West Regional Finals. * 2019, Speaker, TEDx Ajayi Crowther University.<ref name="auto"/> * 2019, Winner SME 100 25Under25 Most Enterprising Youths in Nigeria under the Energy & Sustainability Category. See Also
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