The Academic Marathon was a scholarship project put in place by AYGF in the year 2015 to help create educational development opportunities to exceptionally brilliant young Africans to study abroad in different fields. However, a special emphasis was attached to general sciences and technologies. The project was funded through a common basket fund put together by development partners, International NGOs, Governments, and Corporate Organizations across the globe who have passion to seeing Africa getting out of unnecessary human, material and development related quagmire. Through the project, AYGF was able to give several scholarships to 25 indigent Nigerian students across the 36 States of Nigeria.