Premiere Academy, Lugbe, Abuja, has emerged the overall winner of the 2024 edition of the annual Tech For the Earth Challenge. The School’s seven-member team of upcoming tech innovators claimed the grand prize with their Impact of Technology Farm Irrigation and Monitoring Robot Project at the end of the Challenge which held recently in Abuja.
The Tech For the Earth Challenge is an annual tech contest organised by the Afrelib Academy for students of junior and senior secondary schools from across the African continent.
The outstanding young innovators that made up the Premiere Academy winning team included Titilope Sadiq Shukurat, Ubuane Kevin and Ebulue Kanyito. Others were Salako John-Paul, Adegoke Oluwakemi, Murtala Abdulhammed and Fagbemiro Emmanuel.
The team’s winning exhibition demonstrated innovative impacts of technology deployment to enhance food security, resource optimisation and climate control action.
According to the team mentor, Emmanuel Okoro, the project “is a transformative technological solution, aimed at shaping the future of sustainable tech-driven agriculture in Nigeria and across the African continent.”
Speaking about the 2024 edition and the emergence of Premiere Academy as the overall winner, the organisers, in a statement posted on their Instagram page, said: “The victory is a testament to the team’s hard work, unwavering commitment and exceptional teamwork throughout the competition.
“Their outstanding achievement underscores resilience, innovation and consistent dedication to building a technological solution that seeks to enhance a better, smarter and greener world.”
For its outstanding performance, the Premiere Academy Team won the Prize money, trophy, medals and recognition certificates, as well as opportunities to participate in mentorship and advanced capacity building programmes of the Afrelib Academy.
In a related development, the school has also claimed top honours at the Inter-School National Quiz Competition organised by the National Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA), in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Education and the United Nations Office, Abuja, to mark the 2024 World Aids Day.
The NACA’s World Aids Day 2024 Inter-School Quiz contest was part of a series of activities to mark this year’s edition of the International World Aids Day with the theme, “Take the right part Sustain HIV response, stop HIV among children.”
The Academy’s five-member winning team comprised Tedum Thompson, Abduljaleed Ishaku, Uche Ihuoma, Idahosa Trust and Ebulue Kanyito. They defeated seven other schools at the finals of the competition.
Speaking about the outstanding performances of the school’s teams at the two events, the principal, Mr. Chris Akinsowon, said the feats underscored the tradition of excellence, ethics and hard work, “which offers our students the solid springboard to be able to rub shoulders with the best of their contemporaries globally in any positive field of human endeavour.”
Mr. Akinsowon further pledged that the school would continue to help students access and explore all opportunities to give them the right exposure to cutting edge technological skills and knowledge in tune with global trends and aspirations.