Anambra Students Win Big at the 2023 World Affairs Challenge Global Championship in USA.

Anambra Students Win Big at the 2023 World Affairs Challenge Global Championship in USA.

by Victor Ndubuisi
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In the recently finished World Affairs Challenge, a team of students from Queen of the Rosary College Onitsha took second place overall. Middle and high school students can create and implement their own S.M.A.R.T. solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals through the World Affairs Challenge (WAC), an international initiative and competition.

The Queens’ Lyfe bags were created by the Queen of the Rosary College Onitsha team. These bags are 100% plantable, biodegradable, and made of rice straws, banana fibers, maize husks, and watermelon, tomato, and pepper seeds. They placed second in the global competition because to this innovation. First place went to a team from the USA, and a bilateral team of students from USA and Iraq won third place.

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The kids battled against over 760 competitors over the several preliminary stages, which reduced the field to 28 teams for the Global Championship, where the girls were crowned the Global second-place winning team in the high school division. The children were coached by their teacher mentor, Mr. John Onuigbo. This year’s WAC global championships featured nine nations: Nigeria, Ghana, the United States, France, Iraq, Turkey, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Morocco.

Reacting to the win, the school principal Rev Sr Maria Chijioke Nwankwo expressed her joy and gratitude to God for the win saying “We have been putting in the work to provide our students with world-class tech education. This has been evident in the win of our students in global innovation competitions like this and we thank God. We are building students who would make Onitsha their Silicon Valley”.

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