<![CDATA[On 23rd November 2012, Multichoice Ghana presented prizes to the country winner and runner-up of the DStv Eutelsat Start Awards 2012 competition (for the essay category) at their offices in Accra. The winner took home an Acer Tablet computer and a certificate of participation and the runner-up took home an Apple iPod Touch and a certificate of participation.
This year, Multichoice Ghana were not able to select a winner and runner up for the poster category as none of the poster entries submitted met the awards standards. This was a decision based on the recommendation of the judging panel for this year’s awards to Multichoice Ghana.
In its second year, the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards is a competition open to 14-19 year-old high school students in 42 countries. The awards, a partnership between Multichoice and Eutelsat, aims at inspiring innovative thinking among high-school students, to create awareness on how science and technology can be applied to everyday life, and to showcase the many ways that satellites already impact on the development of the African continent.
The national winner for the essay category this year is Audrey Datieka Anchirinah of St. Louis Senior High School in Kumasi and the runner up is Abigail Srodah Amedzake of Labone Senior High School in Accra.
The winner and runner up entries will be entered into the overall awards alongside winners and runners up from other countries. The overall winning essay recipient will win a trip with parent or guardian to Eutelsat in Paris to witness a live rocket launch. The overall runner-up will win a trip for two to visit Multichoice facilities and the South African Space Agency near Johannesburg, South Africa. Schools attended by overall award winner and runner-up will receive a DStv installation, including a dish, TV, decoder and free access to the DStv Education Bouquet.
General Manager of Multichoice Ghana, Mr. Cecil Sunkwa Mills, congratulated the winners for their achievement and said “We are very proud of you and it is our wish that you go on to win the overall awards. The number of entries received double this year and so we urge teachers and principals of the various high schools and parents to encourage their students and children to participate in the competition next year”.
Aside providing the highest quality television entertainment Multichoice Ghana and Africa are keenly aware of their responsibility to invest meaningfully in the development of African communities. The Multichoice Resource Centre Initiative that is the organisations social investment program across Africa, aims to provide access to high quality learning resources to learners and teachers, extend scarce teaching resources to a wider and diverse audience and deploy technology in a cost effective manner to improve education and not as an end to itself.
Currently, there are 35 Multichoice Resource Centres in Ghana equipped with DStv hardware and the educational bouquet for free. Ten additional schools will be selected and equipped by the end of this year.]]>
