Willow Mozambique students occupy the podium in 4 continents

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Willow Mozambique students occupy the podium in 4 continents

6:55 CAT | 28 Sep 2017

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A group of Mozambican students stood out this year in Africa, Europe and the USA by taking top positions in a number of scientific academic events, including the US Genius Olympiads, World Scholar’s Cup in South Africa, International Environmental Sustainability Project Olympiad in Kenya, the Netherlands and International Kangaroo Mathematics Contest in Australia.

There were a total of 79 medals – divided between gold, silver and bronze – which Willow International School students recently won, obtaining the highest number of Gold medals at the World Scholar’s Cup in South Africa, followed by five gold medals at International Kangaroo Mathematics Contest in Australia, and two gold medals in the Universal Project Olympiad, USA.

In this last country, fifteen Willow International School students also represented Mozambique in the Energy, Engineering and Environment categories at the 2017 Genius Olympics, held at the State University of New York at Oswego, where they obtained a silver, three bronze and six titles of honorable mention (a distinction that does not equal the main prizes, but whose merit is considered worthy of mention).

In the seventh edition of the “Golden Climate: International Olympics of Environmental Projects” in Kenya, the students of this institution competed with five projects and collected an equal number of medals, two of silver and three of bronze.

For the achievement of these awards, was fundamental the fact that they designed a bicycle that generates energy for the operation of a washing machine; a new method of germination of plants by radiation; a device which enables the reduction of arsenic acid; a light bulb that runs on solar power and an ingenuity that reduces the presence of heavy metals in the water.

Cleide Cumba, Nicole Amado, Ludimila Manjate, Keila Soares, Shirley Bombate, Adelina Muchanga, Alberto Banze Júnior and Braclley Macanze said in the award presentation event held recently in Maputo that participation in the contest opened new horizons and interest in research and innovation focused on the preservation of nature.

Willow International School has succeeded in arousing interest in the exact sciences. An example of this is Keila Soares, whose participation in the competition has aroused interest in becoming a specialist in the manufacture of technologies for the good of the environment.

The director of the Willow International School, Zafer Soyertas, considers the prizes won in the Olympiads to prove that Mozambican students have the potential to create brilliant ideas. These initiatives, added the director, should instill in them a motivation to follow the scientific area.

The criterion for selecting Mozambican participants in these Olympics is based on an internal competition in which the students present their projects to a jury at the school being the best submitted to the organisers of the various international Olympiads.

It should be noted that the participation of Mozambican students in the different academic Olympiads has opened them the opportunity to win scholarships in the universities of the countries that organise the events.

Source: Willow International School / Press Release