Akwa Ibom State has emerged winner of the 20th National Junior Engineers, Technicians and Scientists in which all the states and the Federal Capital Territory participated.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the national science-based competition for primary and secondary school students got underway from Tuesday to Friday in Lagos.
The theme of this year’s competition was: “Enhancing Food Security through Science and Technology Applications.”
En route their emergence as the overall winners of the one week competition, the Akwa Ibom State representatives garnered four trophies.
Akwa Ibom State emerged first in free choice project, winning with their project on: “Biodegradable Waste to Wealth.”
They also got the second position for coming out with the project on using orange peels for uses such as Orange Peel for Weight Loss, Orange Peel for Treatment of Hangover, Orange Peel for Production of Pesticides and Candies.
The oil-rich state representatives were also rewarded for their effort in the inter-state qiuz competition by claiming the third position.
In other categories, Ekiti State emerged winners of the inter-state competition for senior category, while Federal Capital Territory came second and Akwa Ibom State third.
For free choice projects, Lagos State came first, Akwa Ibom State second, while Federal Capital Territory was third.
For the National Team Project in the Junior Category, Team Yobe State emerged champions, while Imo State came second and Ondo State third.
Commending the efforts of the junior engineers, the Coordinator of JETS, Grace Jakko, said the ingenuity displayed by the students showed a great future for technology in Nigeria.
Jakko said: “This students have done well and I praise their various efforts coming out with projects that can impact positively the lives of our people.
“This has shown that we have a great future ahead of us technologically.
“This is a rare ingenuity and I urge the students to pursue their dreams of becoming problem solvers in the future.”
Joel Ojo, the representative of the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, said his experience at the competition clearly showed that Nigeria would soon be among the top 20 economies soon.
Adamu said: “Having gone round to inspect the array of innovative projects being exhibited in this hall, I am deeply impressed and optimistic that these young and talented students make Nigeria proud.
“I have no doubt that they will launch Nigeria into becoming one of the largest 20 industrialised economies of the world by the year 2020.”
The students responsible for the projects that won Akwa Ibom State the overall trophy, Terence Udoma and Enobong Etukudo from PEGASUS Schools, Eket, said their success was on their inquisitiveness.
They said: “When we wanted to design the project, what first came to our mind was how can we help the society?
“So, we came up with this idea through our inquisition.
“There are many problems encountered during our research, but we thank God that we are able to overcome.
“We will not stop here but research further on how we can improve on it and help the less privileged, especially those living in the rural areas.”
NAN.
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