MBB Grant Documentary Film

And the upcoming grant program

In the next coming days, I will make another round of calls for applications for the Mary Babatola Bifarin (MBB) grant. Doing this in mid December might appear a little weird. Still, late December/Early January is the only time of the year I can take my foot off the pedal for my research work at Georgia Tech. So basically, I read grant applications during my vacation.

Anyways, around fourth of July, I had the idea of shooting a documentary film about last year's program, specifically about the projects funded.

I was a little skeptical at first, as I am always worried about the tasks I am putting on and my efficiency in managing them. I knew it would take some work, but I figured it should have a good PR impact on the next program in December.

So, I did it.

Before going to the documentary, here is a quick plug for the next program. Please help spread the word to innovative young Nigerians that might benefit from it. It will be on frugal science and innovation. There will be more details about the program in next coming days.

If the quality of the winning project(s) is excellent. A world-class engineer here in the United States expressed interest in virtually mentoring the winner in the science and tech track, in addition to microgrant money that will be received. So, I am really hoping someone back home will take advantage of this incredible opportunity.

Talking about money. If you are able to, I would appreciate it if you could chip in into the grant money to increase the number of people to be funded or increase grant money.

Now to the documentary – it’s about 20 minutes long.

Here is the winner of the clinical track, talking about some details of her projects that we cut out from the main documentary but might be helpful for applicants in the clinical track or people interested in her project

Finally, here is the winner of the tech track giving some advice to future applicants and about his experience of applying.