Latest update April 9th, 2025 12:59 AM
Region Ten schools stage science fair
The Regional Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Fair attracted schools from all across Region Ten. Yesterday they all assembled at the New Silver City Secondary School.
Under the theme “Enhancing traditional technology to sustain modern societies through stem”, students with the help of their teachers, demonstrated their creativity using disposable items such as plastic bottles, coconut shells, plastic spoons and myriad other materials to make such items as a greenhouse, waterwheel, and chandelier among other items.
Scores of children and their teachers trekked to the venue to view the items on display.
The uses of the items as well as the processes involved in creating and designing them were illustrated by the children who ‘manned’ the different exhibition boots.
While many saw the fair as a good venture, which helped the children to demonstrate their creativity, and the importance of recycling among other things, a few persons expressed disappointment with the quality of exhibits- especially those presented by the secondary schools. “I think the Nursery and Primary Schools did far better with their exhibits. There was more in terms of what they had to showcase. Most of the Secondary Schools exhibits were disappointing. I think more thought and effort could have gone into most of them,” one woman opined. Those sentiments were echoed by quite a few persons.
Some of the more outstanding exhibits were the greenhouse by the students of Mackenzie Primary School, the waterwheel by Regma Primary, Watooka Day School’s H2 Ovation, Kwakwani Park Nursery with their deforestation and erosion exhibit, and the plastic bottle chandelier by Blue Berry Hill nursery.
Yesterday’s Regional Science Fair came under the auspices of the Region Ten Education Department.
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