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By Bianca Iboma
the recent science and art fair organised by the Nigerian Tulip International College (NTIC), Ogun gave students platform to display their artistic, scientific and technology driven innovation works aimed at promoting a better society. Tagged; NTIC Scientific and Art Fair: Human Advancement, exhibited amazing inventions by the students.
Principal of the school, Ecran Yilmaz, said 80 science and arts projects were exhibited by the students: “The school invited pupils from other schools so that they too can partake of the innovations and be inspired and equally do the same in future. This would make the students develop their love for science or art, it depends on their passion.”
He said the fair showed the innovative capabilities of the students “as they keep improving on their ideas and are always ready to make impact in the society by demonstrating their witty innovations. NTIC is doing this because they want their students to develop their concept and become great innovators of the future through this experiments and exchange of ideas.
“Similarly, the fair happened to be one of the best learning experiences students can undertake. If taken seriously can be an excellent way to earn significant prizes, qualify for scholarship and distinguish a college application. It involves so much more than science itself.
“It is an opportunity for students to enhance their presentation skills, also when they prepare their display boards and discuss their projects it build confidence in them.
“Active learning is not employed often enough in the classroom and its absence is seen as one of the key factors behind kids losing interest in science and not performing to their potential. Diving into those finger paints and making a beautiful picture to hand on the wall is awesome.
“Factories pick some of our exhibited projects, improve on them and produce them in commercial quantity and sell to the public. More so, the society benefits more because of the togetherness that the event which brings people of all faiths, ethnicities and genders to a meeting point where they do things together learning from one another and developing new ideas together without fight.
“We don’t encourage school to do business but we offer the ideas, the skills for developers such as industries and investors to come in and pick what the students have produced then develop more in commercial quantity and sell to the larger society.
“Getting industries to come in to pick the concepts can’t be done by us alone. It is the collaborative effort of the media and us to share the information about our achievements along the line of scientific and even cultural art discoveries to the rest of the nation.
“Our part is to share the information like what we just did organising the exhibition. The media need to create more awareness so that it goes round and widely spread.
“A student in one of our branches produced a plane and it is flying. If you share this information to the rest of the society and industries come in to pick it, it will improve on it and develop the concept and produce in commercial quantity. It will boost our economy as a nation and create jobs for the unemployed.”
The vice principal and administrator, Mr. Olayinka Aderoju, said: “The students use what they are taught in class and so when they apply that knowledge, they become happy and want to invent more when they see what they have done with their hands they get excited.
“We have to prepare them spiritually too so they become conscious in their hearts that God Almighty exists and it must reflect in their conducts.
“They engage in things that would make them great today and in future as NTIC is producing quality leaders required in any sane society.
“We are confident that our efforts would contribute immensely to nation building through the quality of education founded on the teachings of God.”
