The Ghana Education Service has organized the 4th Regional Science, Technology, Mathematics and Innovative Education (STMIE) camp for the year 2015 under the theme: STMIE, A KEY TO QUALITY LIFE FOR SUSTAINABLE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
The STMIE was initiated in schools, with a singular objective of capturing young minds and help to project them into the future in order to position them well to take up challenges ahead.
Speaking at the STMIE camp at the Bolgatanga Girls Senior High School Thursday, the regional STMIE coordinator Ms. Faustina Agetara said several people still confuse the objective of the well-acknowledged STME clinic for girls with the current STMIE camp for students. Whereas the former seeks to orient girls into career in STMIE and help to remove all gender biases, the current STMIE camp focuses on equipping both male and female students with information and skills to innovate as they get prepared to face current and future challenges. However, Ms. Faustina admitted that both activities get to the same destination.
She also expressed satisfaction and joy that Upper East Region emerged the winner in the science projects exhibited at the 2015 Senior High Schools national camp held in Koforidua in the Eastern Region.
According to her, 25 years of intensive education for girls to take up science and technology seriously in school has realized overwhelming results.
She also appreciated some NGO’s like Action Aid, World Vision, Plan International, Care Ghana and Camfed for supporting the Girls Education Unit of Ghana Education Service(GES) to carry on with some of the approaches that will enable more girls to break through the glass ceiling.
Since 2010, over 200-500 JHS students from all over the regions are often assisted to learn specially packed activities at the camp through the sponsorship of Municipal/ Districts Assemblies, but unfortunately in the year 2015, some of the Districts/ Municipalities could not meet the target and that made the total number to reduce this year to 450 students across the region.
Some students were given awards for doing so well on the quizzes conducted while some districts also received awards for exhibiting good creative project work.
A retired educationist Madam Florence Boibi who doubled as the chairperson of the event, encouraged the student participants to be focused in their education instead of wasting their time with unnecessary activities such as disco dance and party. She advised the students to take Science, Technology, Mathematics and Innovative Education very serious.
By: Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen | A1RADIOONLINE.COM | GHANA
