Obuasi Senior High Technical School wins 2024 Stemnovation competition

The Obuasi Senior High Technical School (SHTS) has been adjudged winner of this academic year’s Stemnnovation competition with an innovative project focused on digital technology.

Competing against 56 other second-cycle schools at the grand finale of the STEM competition, the Obuasi-based Technical School placed first with a score of 85.86 points for their solar-powered homemade dialysis machine.

Obuasi Senior High Technical School received GH₵50,000 from the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP), a desktop computer from Omega Computers, GH₵20,000 life insurance from Glico Insurance Company, along with medals and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) textbooks.

Dabokpa Technical Institute took second place with 83.29 points, earning GH₵40,000, while Yaa Asantewaa Girls placed third with 80.43 points and received GH₵30,000.

Presbyterian Senior High School, Legon, secured fourth place with 75 points and received GH¢20,000.

All participating schools were awarded a laptop, a printer, stationery, and a plaque for their achievements.

Senior High Schools ranked fourth to tenth in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) competition each received GH¢20,000, while those in the eleventh to twentieth positions received GH¢10,000.

The Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum after the Stemnovation commended the winners and all participating schools for their ingenuity and skills, stating, “Stemnnovation has come to stay.”

Speaking to the media, the Education Minister said that the competition would provide students with opportunities to discover and harness their creative talents for the benefit of the world.

“Ghana has the best group of students in the world to develop projects to transform the country’s socio-economic development,” he told journalists.