A Nigerian Secondary school, Mercy Technical High School, Nbawsi in Isiala Ngwa North local government area of Abia State has won the 2023 Action Earth Global Youth Summit (GYS) staged in Quy Nhon, Vietnam, a feat the school had equally achieved in the 2022 edition of the competition.
Igbere TV gathered that, Onwere Chinwekele Casmir, a 14 year, Senior Secondary 2 (SS2) student entered the competition , with the best innovative project; an affordable solar dryer designed to be used in drying fish and vegetables.
During the competition, the young innovators had the task of presenting their projects to the audience and judges and answer the barrage of questions that followed, after which the audience voted and scores obtained during voting determine the fate of each participating student.
Already, the school is engaged in a biogas project championed by the Principal, Rev. Sister Lilian Ifeoma Chibiko, a member of the congregation of Daughters of Mary Mother of Mercy (DMMM). The biogas project has seen the school build solar energy as its source of power supply, just as many students have been trained to assemble, install solar lights and service solar panels.
The Principal of Mercy Technical High School, Rev. Sister Lilian Chibiko, said that it was an awesome display of green innovations by youth from Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Taiwan and Nigeria for a cleaner and healthier environment and congratulated Master Onwere for making her school, Abia State Nigeria and Africa proud.
It could be recalled that collectively , about 4, 500 youths , aged 12 to 23 years old , from the ASEAN and Asia Pacific have attended GYS since its inaugural launch in 2014.
