Peterhouse Girls students shine in U.S
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Peterhouse Girls fifth form student, Tayamika Mandiwanzira, landed a Bronze Medal at the Genius Olympiad, an international high school project competition held in New York, USA.
Tayamika’s innovation, ‘The Steri-light: A Portable Solar-Powered Cost-Effective Sterilization Unit’, bagged her RIT University awards worth US$30,000. The project fascinated many including judges with the gifted student saying the Olympiad was an eye-opening event and “not just a simple science fair.”
Over 1200 high school students drawn from 64 countries and 33 US States participated in the Olympiad.
The Bronze award is awarded to one who tops 70% of the participants.
Shania Jin and Gigi Nyambirai also fifth Form students at Peterhouse participated at the Genius Olympiad and received an ‘honourable mention’ for their joint project entitled ‘Sowing The Seeds Of Change.’
The project is a tech driven solution for Zimbabwe’s farming economy.
The honourable mention is given to one who tops 50-20% of the projects.
The participants drawn from multidisciplinary areas such as science, art, creative writing, architectural design, and music came together for a week-long enriching experience.
They joined other high achieving students who share the same passion and enthusiasm in the study of global environmental issues and use of ingenuity to solve many of these environmental problems.
According to RIT, the science category received 1014 project submissions and only 367 projects made the cut and were accepted for review.
Each entrant was then required to make a presentation to 5-10 judges from diverse intellectual and academic backgrounds.
The Global high schools GENIUS Olympiad was founded and organized by Terra Science and Education and hosted at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) university campus, in New York USA from 10-15 June 2024.
RIT is one of the leading universities in design, engineering, arts, and technology in the USA and has international campuses in China, Croatia, Dubai, and Kosovo.
