ITREALMS:
The awards, ITRealms gathered,
honour established companies along with disruptive innovators who make the
world a more prosperous, healthier, better-educated, sustainable and inclusive
home for humankind.
Drawing on six
years of success across the continent, the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards is returning
for a 7th edition, just as students from secondary (high) or
combined schools can enter from today bywriting a creative essay or designing a
poster based on the following topic:“It’s
sixty years since the first satellite, Sputnik, was launched,broadcasting a
unique and easily captured ‘beep, beep, beep’ signal. Looking back at this
historic moment, write an essay or design a poster depicting how satellites
have launched humankind into the 21stCentury and acted as a unifier.”
ITRealms reports that the prizes of this
innovative competition are as big as the dreams of a young, energised African
generation ready to shape the evolution of our continent. Selected from
thousands of entries by a high-standard jury, the essay winner will be eligible
for a once-in-a-lifetime trip for two to Paris, Francein the company of
Eutelsat, and onwards to French Guiana to see a rocket launch into space. The
poster winner will win a trip for two to South Africa which includes a visit to
the South African National Space Agency as well as exploration of several heritage
sites as guests of MultiChoice Africa. The schools attended by the two winners will
also receive a DStv installation, including a dish, TV, decoder and free access
to the DStv Education Package.
The DStv Eutelsat Star Awards are open to all
learners from secondary (high) or combined schools on the continent where
MultiChoice Africa maintains operations. Entry forms can be obtained from any
MultiChoice Resource Centre, the nearest MultiChoice office.
Maintaining
that entries are accepted in English, French and Portuguese and will be judged
on the basis of high-standard criteria of accuracy, creativity, originality and
innovation.For the first time this year students are also invited to engage
with the Awards community through a dedicated Facebook page.
The competition
closes on 12 February 2018. Only entries submitted on the official entry form
will be eligible. The overall winners will be announced at an awards ceremony
in March 2018.
All details on
the judging criteria, national prizes and finalists’ selection are available on
the DStv Eutelsat Star
Awards website.
MultiChoice
Africa and Eutelsat are convinced of the power of science and technology education
to encourage young mindstopositively change their world. Now in its 7th
year, their joint initiative, the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards,inspire innovative
thinking among a young African generation.This pan-African collaboration has
created a meaningful engagement with students, the academic community and the
scientific world. Since the start of the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards in 2011, over
6,000 students have taken part in this unique competition.
Nonye Dom/GEE
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