The 9-11 attacks on the world trade center in New York, pushed Hon. Adetola Salau, an engineer, to volunteer her expertise as a STEM Educator in the public school system of the City of New York. She was moved by the sense of shared loss, perceived hopelessness and vulnerability that loomed over her city in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
This same resolve to provide panacea to the seeming flaccidity in the Nigerian educational system led her to pack her bags and return home to Nigeria in the mid 2000s to spearhead a revolution in STEM Education (targeting the lower primary to upper secondary levels of Nigerian education).
To this daughter of educators, a career in education is a no-brainer as both her parents were Professors (her dad the late Professor Salau, serving as Vice-Chancellor at the University of Port Harcourt and her mum Prof. Oreoluwa Salau, Nigeria's first female meteorologist).
"PASSIONATE ABOUT STEM", Tola found innovative ways to merge her love for children, her passion for STEM and her deeply ingrained desire that children receive qualitative, affordable STEM education.
These she has passionately pursued through the Carisma-4-U Educational Foundation; a social enterprise set up by Tola on her return to Nigeria, through which she organizes free summer and recurrent STEM workshops for indigent children.
Today, she holds the forth as the Senior Special Assistant, STEM Education at the Lagos State Ministry of Education, where under the leadership of the Honorable Commissioner, she drives policy and designs programs for the improvement in learning outcomes and outputs in STEM education in Lagos State.

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