Doregos Private Academy, Ipaja, Lagos
State, on Friday emerged 2014 winner of National Festival of School
Science Fair and Quiz competition with a 76.4 aggregate score from their
project titled: “2WP Tripowered Generator.”
Doregos, which is the only school in
Nigeria to clinch the first and sixth position from a highly competed
science exhibition projects in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, will be one
of the six schools to represent Nigeria in Los Angeless, United States
of America in the Intel International Science and Engineering
competition.
Air Force comprehensive School, Uyo,
came second with the aggregate score of 74.8. The school, which
presented a project titled “The Nonapiece”, will also represent Nigeria
in the US for the Intel International Science and Engineering.
Other schools, Mariam Babaginda Girls
Science College, Niger State (3rd position); Teto Model College, Bayelsa
State (4th position); Government Technical College, Ikeja (5th
position) and Doregos Private Academy, Lagos State (6th position), will
also represent Nigeria with their projects in the Intel International
Science and Engineering championship in the US.
The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr.
Godswill Akpabio, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Science and Technology, Mr. Clement Isuk, said the state had
won many medals in science and technology competitions since the
inception of Akpabio’s administration in 2007.
He stated that out of 10 years of
existence of the national festival, the state had won the competition
for two years (2010 and 2012).
He added that the successes were a
result of the state’s commitment to the development of science and
technology, and the free and compulsory education policy of the
administration.
He said, “We have raised our state to
join the comity of nations in science and technology revolution by
instituting numerous science and technology infrastructure like Ibom
e-Library, Ibom Tropicana, Pipe-Jacking Drainage Technology, Ibom
Industrial City and Deep Seaport, Ibom International Airport, the
Research and Development Laboratory, among others.
“This administration has consciously
given high priority to the training of the project facilitators to
position Akwa Ibom State in this emerging world of scientific
breakthroughs and technological revolution.”
Managing Director, Shell Petroleum
Development Company of Nigeria Limited/Country Chair, Mr. Mutiu Sunmonu,
said every new technology depends on a solid base of science and
mathematics.
He added that the process should be the
sort of academic curriculum which should form the core of any education,
as well as be the universal entitlement for every child in Nigeria.
He stated that the event is the product of a partnership between SPDC, Intels and Interswitch.
“We went into an agreement to support
improved learning and teaching of science subjects in Nigerian secondary
schools,” he said.
He revealed that over $4m in prizes and
scholarships would be awarded to winners in the international science
and engineering fair in the US.
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