NSSEC creates platform for science students to showcase creativity

The National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC) has created a platform for senior science students to showcase their talents and creativity through the exhibition of various innovative projects they create.

The students were from seven science and technical colleges in Abuja, with each displaying several scientific innovations that can provide solutions to different environmental, health, and other challenges in the country.

Speaking at the maiden edition of the Annual National Science, Technology and Innovation project exhibition for senior secondary school students in Abuja, the Executive Secretary of NSSEC, Dr Iyela Ajayi, said the exhibition is aimed at promoting Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Design and Mathematics (STEAM), as well as Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and entrepreneurial skills at the senior secondary education level in Nigeria.

He said it will also provide the students with the opportunity to meet with relevant organisations or agencies that will look at what they are doing and then add value to it.

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The NSSEC Head of Senior Secondary Education and the Coordinator of the programme, Mohammed Salihu, urged different government organisations and agencies to fine-tune the different projects created by secondary school students through their science and innovation skills for commercialization.

“What is unique is that we have invited relevant agencies and organisations that have something to do with the projects and are appealing to them to see what the students have come up with and try to see how they can fine-tune it for commercialisation.

“We intend to expose students to international exhibitions and fairs where the projects can be picked up and worked on for the good of the country.

“To make it interesting and encourage students, we introduced a component of competition into it so that after the assessment, some prizes would go to the school and to the students as well,” he said.

The programme coordinator, however, explained that they were only going to have the first and second positions of gold and silver, while other students would come in the third position of bronze for participating, and each would get a little prize for attending.