Nine African Students Excel in Nuclear Competition

Nine students from different African universities who took part in the sixth annual competition on nuclear energy organised by the Russian state Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, have won the competition.

The winners of the online video competition is titled ‘Atoms Empowering Africa’ were announced at the special online awards ceremony this week.

During the competition, participants were to post videos on Facebook exploring nuclear technologies and how these could be utilised to benefit Africa.

These could include how nuclear technologies can assist in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Africa, how nuclear technologies can help developing countries industrialise, how non-power related nuclear science and technology can benefit countries or communities.

This year’s winners are the team of George Davis Bilali, a Tanzanian, studying at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, Alyaa Mahmoud Ibrahim Awad from Egypt and Fati Aruna Akoriko from Ghana.

The other winners are Mostafa Omran, a masters student at the African Centre of Excellence in Future Energies and Electrochemical Systems in Egypt and Noоmen Noоmen, a student and communication manager at Panorama short film in Tunisia.

A special prize for best collaboration was established for three other participants because of the diversity of the work. The prize went to the team of Munachimso Oguine, Oguine Jane and Oguine Ozioma from the National Open University of Nigeria.

Another special prize for extraordinary creativity and video content was awarded to Wissem Dallali, from Tunisia.

All winners will go on an all-expenses paid trip to Russia, where they will visit several tourist attractions as well as various nuclear institutions and facilities.

One of the judges, the national executive chairperson of the South African Young Nuclear Professional Society Gaopalelwe Santswere said this year there were high-quality of videos.

Another judge Tebogo Motlhabane, president of Women in Nuclear South Africa, said many girls took part in the competition.

The chief executive officer and Founder of Influence Communications, Mohamed Emara said a large number of videos show that the youth of Africa are eager to achieve sustainable development goals to solve the continent’s problems.

According to Ryan Collyer, the chief executive officer of Rosatom in the Central and Southern Africa, nuclear technology is the heart of many innovations from which Africa and the world can benefit.

He said the company is ready to support African youth’s aspirations in achieving their purposes.Nine African Students Excel in Nuclear Competition

Nine students from different African universities who took part in the sixth annual competition on nuclear energy organised by the Russian state Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, have won the competition.

The winners of the online video competition is titled ‘Atoms Empowering Africa’ were announced at the special online awards ceremony this week.

During the competition, participants were to post videos on Facebook exploring nuclear technologies and how these could be utilised to benefit Africa.

These could include how nuclear technologies can assist in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Africa, how nuclear technologies can help developing countries industrialise, how non-power related nuclear science and technology can benefit countries or communities.

This year’s winners are the team of George Davis Bilali, a Tanzanian, studying at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, Alyaa Mahmoud Ibrahim Awad from Egypt and Fati Aruna Akoriko from Ghana.

The other winners are Mostafa Omran, a masters student at the African Centre of Excellence in Future Energies and Electrochemical Systems in Egypt and Noоmen Noоmen, a student and communication manager at Panorama short film in Tunisia.

A special prize for best collaboration was established for three other participants because of the diversity of the work. The prize went to the team of Munachimso Oguine, Oguine Jane and Oguine Ozioma from the National Open University of Nigeria.

Another special prize for extraordinary creativity and video content was awarded to Wissem Dallali, from Tunisia.

All winners will go on an all-expenses paid trip to Russia, where they will visit several tourist attractions as well as various nuclear institutions and facilities.

One of the judges, the national executive chairperson of the South African Young Nuclear Professional Society Gaopalelwe Santswere said this year there were high-quality of videos.

Another judge Tebogo Motlhabane, president of Women in Nuclear South Africa, said many girls took part in the competition.

The chief executive officer and Founder of Influence Communications, Mohamed Emara said a large number of videos show that the youth of Africa are eager to achieve sustainable development goals to solve the continent’s problems.

According to Ryan Collyer, the chief executive officer of Rosatom in the Central and Southern Africa, nuclear technology is the heart of many innovations from which Africa and the world can benefit.

He said the company is ready to support African youth’s aspirations in achieving their purposes.