Sogakofe Senior High School in the Volta Region of Ghana has been crowned the winner of 2023 Edition of the High School Renewable Energy Challenge after a fierce competition from five schools at the Accra International Conference Centre.
Six schools qualified from all the 16 zones for the grand finale.
They included Serwaa Kese Girls SHS, Dorma SHS, Kwabre SHS, Mfantsiman Girls SHS, Yaa Asantewaa Girls SHS and Sogakofe SHS which won the competition.
The six competing Senior High Schools presented their projects and they were critically and careful examined by the panel of judges plus questions about their work.
Serwaa Kese Girls Senior High placed sixth recording 81.3% after they were asked to substantiate their claims that their project which is an innovation for fossil use and hatchery equipment as efficient.
Their product would use residue from its production to feed the birds, reduce energy consumption and produce about 65 birds per hatch, which is 90 per cent efficient.
Dorma SHS came 5th with 82.4 per cent.
Their project was centered on solving post-harvest losses to enhance high profitability for farmers.
Mfantsiman Girls’ SHS came 4th with 83.5 per cent, with a project on how to solve the Green House problems facing Ghana and how it would help reduce government’s spending in that sector.
Yaa Asantewaa Girls’ SHS placed 2nd with their hydro-panics planting system which ensure the hygiene of foods, and Sogakofe SHS was 1st with their multi-factional farming equipment.
It digs holes for planting seeds, it plants, it helps in irrigating of the crops and assists in disinfecting crops at the same time.
All the competing schools and their trainers were rewarded with cash, generators, laptops and other equipment running into thousands of Ghana Cedis.
The competition was on the theme ‘Mechanised Small-scale Agriculture, Using Renewable Energy Technologies’.
The Second-Lady of Ghana, Her Excellency Mrs Samira Bawumia was the Special Guest of Honour
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com
