The AWP Network trains Secondary School Students in Lagos to Plan, Pitch, Grow!

In line with its mission to help Nigeria solve its unemployment crisis, the AWP Network collaborated with Covenant University’s H.O.P.E. Foundation to launch the DREAM project – an initiative established to help secondary school students across Nigeria develop their business plans and entrepreneurial ideas.

 

STUDENTS: Want to appear sincere in texts? Stop using periods — period

Want to send the right message? Don’t punctuate your texts — period.

A new Binghamton University study of 126 undergrads reveals that texts ending with a period were seen as less sincere than those that left the full-stop punctuation mark off.

The research team led by Celia Klin, an associate professor of psychology at the SUNY school, showed the subjects text messages featuring an invitation to an event — such as “Dave gave me his extra tickets. Wanna come?” — followed by a receiver’s one-word affirmative response.