Four best science students fly to Ireland

Dar es Salaam. Four Tanzanian secondary school students will fly to Dublin, Ireland to represent their colleagues in the country at the Young Scientists Award Ceremony.

The trip is sponsored by Irish Aid in collaboration with Karimjee Jivanjee Foundation (KJF). The students are from Ilongero and Fidel Castro secondary schools in Singida and from Pemba respectively.

The trip is a reward for their being overall winners of the Young Scientists Tanzania Award (YST) in 2013.

Speaking at the scholarship award ceremony and students send off yesterday in Dar es Salaam, KJF chairman Hatim Karimjee said the two students from Ilongero Secondary School -- Mr Jafari Ndagula and Mr Fidel Samwel -- won the overall prize at YST 2013 exhibition with their presentation on a drip irrigation system using recycled materials.

The winners received cash prizes, medals, trophies, laptops and a visit to Dublin, Ireland to represent Tanzanian students in the Irish based Young Scientists award ceremony. “The winners also received scholarship from the Karimjee Jivanjee Foundation for their graduate studies in the future as part of the Foundation’s efforts to support social and economic development in the country,” he said.

He said that YST also made an award to two students, Muslih Othman Khamis and Amne Said Sound from the Fidel Castro Secondary school in Pemba for their project on ethanol biofuel plant in Pemba and the KJF provided scholarship to both students.

Mr Karimjee added that the foundation strongly supports the YST initiative because it (the initiative) enhances the learning of science and technology as vital tools to transform Tanzania and improve learning environment throughout the country.