"Thank you Compuware for letting me be part of The Step Academy. It has been a "stepping stone" for me, and has given me the opportunity to groom into being a professional, business-skilled and a good team player. I've been empowered with enormous knowledge and tools to make it in the corporate world.

THE WILL TO LEARN, INNOVATION, DETERMINATION = SUCCESS."

Florence completed matric in 1998, and was very involved in the schools activities. She played netball, was a member of the choir and represented the SRC.

She then went on to the University of the North to study a B.Sc, majoring in chemistry and zoology. After her first year, she decided that this career path was not what she was looking for and enrolled at TNG to complete a Diploma in Information Technology. She completed the diploma in 2003, with programming knowledge in C++, Visual Basic, Delphi and Oracle.

After searching for experiential training in the corporate environment and not able to secure anything, Florence took the initiative to approach schools, and competed her training by developing a database, for Bafeti School, which allocates subjects for payment, monitors results, and controls the teachers clock cards. This as a very successful project and was accepted as TNG's practical project. She received her diploma at the end of 2003.

During 2004, Florence has been actively searching for full time employment, but has been unsuccessful. In the interim, she has set up a small business with her sister selling clothes to the community.