Anambra Students Set to Represent Nigeria at the “The Diamond Challenge” Competition in America.
Three students from “The Divine Rays British School” namely; Elvis Ugochukwu, Jennifer Onyejiego and Anthony Maduka have beat other competitors to take the first position in the preliminary stages of the Diamond Challenge, and will represent Nigeria at the Global Submit in the United States of America on April 1, 2022.
The Divine Rays British School recently established by the Reverend Father Emmanuel Obimma is known popularly known for its academic excellence.
The competition was named ‘Horn Entrepreneurship’, created in 2012 by University of Delaware, backed by academic grounding in state-of-the-art entrepreneurship education methodologies, took place in Abeokuta, Ogun state. The aim of the competition is to offer teens unique opportunity to learn entrepreneurship by putting their ideas into practice with $100,000 in prizes and resources to take students ideas to the next level.
The trio created a battery that stores and converts carbon dioxide (CO2) from automobiles, petroleum factories, incinerators to electricity and reduces environmental pollution. An innovation which put them ahead of other participants.
Runner-up at the national finale were Mater Ambilis Secondary School, Anambra; Caleb British International School Lekki, Lagos; African Church Model School, Lagos; Vetland Senior Grammar School; Iju Senior Grammar School, Lagos, among others.
