The second runner-up in the Sahara STEAMers Grand Demo Competition 2.0 is Team Young Genius from Oshodi High School in Lagos, Nigeria, for their innovative demonstration. In partnership with STEMCafe, the Sahara Group Foundation—the social sustainability arm of Sahara Group Limited—organizes the tournament, which is in its second year.
Over 200 kids across the continent benefited directly from this year’s initiative, which aims to promote innovation, creativity, and quality in STEAM education among secondary school students in Africa. The program gave participating students access to deep-dive classroom instruction and gave them the practical information and abilities needed to come up with creative solutions for challenges in the real world. Consequently, supporting the development of a pool of youthful, self-assured social innovators throughout Africa.
The Grand Demo Day Competition in 2023 saw the top three teams from each of the National Demo Competitions represent their respective nations. Before a panel of judges, all twelve teams showcased their creative prototype ideas for solutions spanning a variety of industries, including Waste Management, Energy, Transportation, Health, and Agriculture.
There was a lot of competition between teams from Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania during the Grand Demo Competition. Team Imperial Tech from Rise and Shine Secondary School in Uganda won this year’s regional competition thanks to their creative invention of a Soil Moisture Detector, a practical farm tool that helps maintain healthy soil and boost productivity.
Team Smart Blind Walking Stick, from St Georges Girls Secondary School in Nairobi, Kenya, came in second place. They created a novel way to help people with vision impairments move about.
Team Young Genius from Oshodi High School in Lagos, Nigeria, which included Francis Kingdavid, Njima Chibuike, Adewale Fathia, Chibuisi Goodluck, and Ukoh Success, placed third in the competition. The team’s ground-breaking project, a creative Domestic Drainage System painstakingly crafted to solve the ubiquitous problem of drainage blockage in our society, is credited with their extraordinary accomplishment. Their creative idea shows their dedication to maintaining a clean environment and establishes them as critical thinkers capable of coming up with workable, significant answers to the problems that our communities face.
The Sahara Group Foundation’s Director, Ejiro Gray, spoke during the Grand Demo Competition and expressed his enormous satisfaction with the students’ dedication and perseverance throughout the course of the program. In her reflections on the nine-month program, she emphasized how well it had stimulated students’ critical thinking and creative thinking abilities, producing a new generation of African problem solvers.
Ejiro Gray congratulated the winning teams and exhorted all attendees to use the knowledge and abilities they had gained from the program for the good of their local communities and society as a whole. She expressed her appreciation to the educators, school administrators, and students who took part in the program, as well as to STEMCafe, the program’s implementing partner, and other stakeholders, for their vital contributions.
Chinyelu Akpa, Business Development Manager of STEM Café, also spoke at the occasion and emphasized the program’s enormous value to our society as part of the Sahara STEAMers initiative. She stressed the vital role that the sponsorship agreement with the Sahara Group Foundation plays, saying that these kinds of partnerships are what enable these youngsters’ lives to be significantly impacted. According to her, “young minds are given a gateway to a world of possibilities through programs like this, which inspires them to imagine a future in which their creativity and innovation can make a transformed difference.”
As the Sahara STEAMers Grand Demo Competition 2.0 comes to an end, the influence of this ground-breaking project is felt outside of the competition space. This event’s remarkable inventiveness highlights the program’s critical role in developing a generation capable of addressing Africa’s problems with creativity and resiliency. This achievement speaks to the potential of our young people and serves as a lighthouse pointing the way to a future where innovation flourishes for the benefit of local communities and the continent as a whole.
Asharami Synergy in Kenya and the Sahara Group Foundation are unwavering in their dedication to developing initiatives that lead Africa into a future marked by creativity, sustainability, and diversity. We’ll keep working together and implementing smart plans like Sahara STEAMers to clear the path for a better future in which African youth’s talent will be harnessed to propel advancement and positive change.
Concerning the Sahara Group Foundation
The Sahara Group Foundation serves as the organization’s social sustainability vehicle, emphasizing the development of sustainable environments and energy access to eventually aid in the creation of sustainable societies. The Personal and Corporate Social Responsibility (PCSR) programs of the Sahara Group Foundation serve as the cornerstone for the organization’s volunteer activity by providing workers with avenues to impact the community through a range of initiatives.
Concerning Sahara Group
Leading global energy and infrastructure company Sahara Group operates in more than 42 countries in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Europe. Sahara Group leads the way in several energy subsectors through its infrastructure, upstream, downstream, midstream, and electricity (generation and distribution).
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