Multichoice Ghana Presents Prizes to DStv Eutelsat Star Awards 2012
Winners
Multichoice Ghana presented prizes to the country
winner and runner-up of the DStv Eutelsat Start Awards 2012 competition
(for the essay category) at their offices in Accra. The winner took home
an Acer Tablet computer and a certificate of participation and the
runner-up took home an Apple iPod Touch and a certificate of
participation.
This year, Multichoice Ghana were not able to select a winner and runner
up for the poster category as none of the poster entries submitted met
the awards standards. This was a decision based on the recommendation of
the judging panel for this year's awards to Multichoice Ghana.
In its second year, the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards is a competition open
to 14-19 year-old high school students in 42 countries. The awards, a
partnership between Multichoice and Eutelsat, aims at inspiring
innovative thinking among high-school students, to create awareness on
how science and technology can be applied to everyday life, and to
showcase the many ways that satellites already impact on the development
of the African continent.
The national winner for the essay category this year is Audrey Datieka
Anchirinah of St. Louis Senior High School in Kumasi and the runner up
is Abigail Srodah Amedzake of Labone Senior High School in Accra.
The winner and runner up entries will be entered into the overall awards
alongside winners and runners up from other countries. The overall
winning essay recipient will win a trip with parent or guardian to
Eutelsat in Paris to witness a live rocket launch. The overall
runner-up will win a trip for two to visit Multichoice facilities and
the South African Space Agency near Johannesburg, South Africa. Schools
attended by overall award winner and runner-up will receive a DStv
installation, including a dish, TV, decoder and free access to the DStv
Education Bouquet.
General Manager of Multichoice Ghana, Mr. Cecil Sunkwa Mills,
congratulated the winners for their achievement and said "We are very
proud of you and it is our wish that you go on to win the overall
awards. The number of entries received double this year and so we urge
teachers and principals of the various high schools and parents to
encourage their students and children to participate in the competition
next year".
Aside providing the highest quality television entertainment Multichoice
Ghana and Africa are keenly aware of their responsibility to invest
meaningfully in the development of African communities. The Multichoice
Resource Centre Initiative that is the organisations social investment
program across Africa, aims to provide access to high quality learning
resources to learners and teachers, extend scarce teaching resources to
a wider and diverse audience and deploy technology in a cost effective
manner to improve education and not as an end to itself.
Currently, there are 35 Multichoice Resource Centres in Ghana equipped
with DStv hardware and the educational bouquet for free. Ten additional
schools will be selected and equipped by the end of this year.