About ASC
Ogun State's most ambitious student STEM platform — building tomorrow's geniuses today.
"Every genius deserves a stage. We built one."
Five Years.One Mission.
The Adewale Students Conference began in 2021 with a single conviction: that the brightest minds in Ogun State deserved more than a classroom ceiling. Five editions later, we have become the state's most consistent youth innovation platform reaching over 5,000 students, distributing ₦25 million in scholarship support, and hosting a grand finale that brings together 1,000 students, teachers, and community leaders.
In 2026, we enter a new chapter. ASC is transitioning from a passion-driven initiative into a formally institutionalised programme under the Ogun Economic & Innovation Council building the governance, partnerships, and systems that will carry this work forward for the next decade.
STEM Contest
Inter-school science and technology competition across Ogun State.
Innovation Pitches
Students pitch real solutions to real community challenges.
Keynote & Panel
Nigeria's leading voices on education, technology, and the future.
Grand Finale
A landmark convergence of Ogun State's brightest students.
Five Years.UndeniableImpact.
From a single community event to a statewide institution every number here represents a student who was seen, challenged, and invested in. This is what five years of unwavering commitment looks like.
First edition launches in Sagamu. The Adewale STEM Contest is born.
Expanded across Ogun State. Innovation pitch category introduced.
Grand Finale camping format debuts. 300 students, 700 day-visitors.
Cumulative scholarship support crosses ₦25 million. 5,000 students reached.
Fifth consecutive edition. Programme announces institutionalisation under OEIC.
Built FromConviction.
“I started this because I knew what it felt like to be the brightest person in the room with no room to grow. ASC is the room I wish I had.”
Michael Adewale Adesanya is a politician, educator, and innovation advocate from Remo, Ogun State. With roots across Sagamu, Ikenne, and Remo North, he has spent the last decade building at the intersection of technology, education, and community development.
Michael brings four years of Silicon Valley experience, including connections forged at Stanford University and Y Combinator, back to Ogun State channelling that exposure into programmes and institutions that serve young people at the grassroots. He serves as an Adjunct Lecturer in Engineering Entrepreneurship at the University of Lagos.
ASC is his most personal project a programme he has funded, run, and shown up for every year for five consecutive years. In 2026, he is taking the hardest step any founder can take: building the structure that makes it bigger than him.