The 1984/85 Year Group of the Accra Girls Old Students Association (AGOSA) has handed over a modernized chemistry laboratory and a repainted block to the school.
The project comprises of the water connection to the chemistry laboratory to serve the entire science block, tiling of the lab floor, installation of ceiling fans, rewiring of the lab, fixing lab benches with marble bench tops, installation of a fume chamber.gas supply system for the lab to replace the use of cooking gas cylinders.They also provided storage cabinets and shelves, as well as repainting the science block.
The facelift works were to make sure that the lab no longer needed portable cooking gas cylinders, which were previously used by students in the lab for practical works and experiments..
The new system will guarantee the performance of the science students.
Deputy Minister of Education, Dr Clement Abas Apaak, the Regional Director of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Hajia Katumi Natogmah Attah, attended the handling over ceremony. Members of the AGOSA 84/85 year group, staff of the school and students from the science department.
Dr Apaak speaking at the handling over ceremony, commended the AGOSA 84/85 alumni group for remodernzing the Accra Girls SHS’s chemistry lab, appraising their efforts in promoting STEM education, which was a government aim.
He encouraged other alumni to build upon their example, stating, “The government alone cannot do it, so we call on other alumni associations to build upon this glowing example.”
Hajia Katumi also showed her gratitude for the modernized lab and received it on behalf of the GES, while taking responsibility for its maintenance.
She encouraged students to “study hard and return to support the school,” while motivating teachers to improve outcomes. John Victor Klevor, the Head of Science Programme at the school, listed a number of challenges or difficulties facing the department, adding that the sinks in the labs were not functioning which results to students to manually transport water in buckets.
He also showed his gratitude and gratefulness to the AGOSA 84/85 alumni for the facelift and said that the new lab would encourage both teachers and students to do better, assuring better results after WASSCE.
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