Four Nigerian students won a Bronze medal at the International Festival of Engineering, Science and Tech
Four Nigerian students have won a Bronze medal at the International Festival of Engineering, Science and Tech I-FEST, beating some countries to the bronze.
The international festival of Engineering, science and technology took place in Monastir Tunisia, was a 9 day festival held from 21st to 29th march.
The festival was organized for students aged between 14 to 24 years from 40 countries and about 251 projects were showcased at the competition by participating countries across the world.
The competition was aimed at developing the innovative skills of young scientists and encouraging them to apply their imagination and creativity in solving problems in their environment
Ugwuish Ogonna, Chuka-Umeora Anthony, Nwachukwu Daniel and Machi Dominic are students of St John’s Science and Technical College, Anambra, Nigeria.
They were challenge from technologically advanced countries like Canada, Italy, South Korea, Turkey, China, Sweden, Ukraine, Malaysia, Brazil, Bosnia Herzgovina, Indonesia, Tunisia, South Africa and other
They gained the bronze medal with two devices which they used at the festival. The Adaptable Alternative Power Supply for Sub-Saharan Africa which is a single, fully-packaged solar technology.
The other device is a noiseless inverter system all locally gotten and produced by them.
The device electric inverter with a solar panel enables it to absorb energy from the sun, warehouse the energy in inverter and subsequently distribute it in households and offices.
We urged the state government to assist the college other colleges in the procurement of modern science and engineering equipment to encourage students in science subjects and future competitions.
This achievement by these young boys came barely seven months after six female students of Regina Pacis Model Secondary School, in Onitsha Nigeria, clinched gold at the World Technovation Challenge in the Silicon Valley in San Francisco, United States.
This already shows the involvement of young ones in technology, thereby opening their minds to innovations of new things.
