Ziguinchor, June 9 (APS) – Assane Seck College in Ziguinchor (southwest) awarded, on Saturday, about forty college students from Ziguinchor, Sédhiou, Kolda and Tambacounda faculties, on the finish of the 14th version of the “Science Olympiads for college students center faculty and highschool,” he famous to the APS.
The “Science and Expertise Olympics” is an initiative of UFR Sciences and Applied sciences, Assane Seck College in Ziguinchor.
“This science competition is essential for us at Assane Seck College in Ziguinchor. Immediately, sciences are largely uncared for by college students in faculties,” defined the vice chairman of UASZ, Professor Diène Ngom.
The rector of Assane Seck College in Ziguinchor, Mamadou Badji, lecturers, mother and father and academic stakeholders participated on this awards ceremony for the 14th version of the “Science Olympiad”.
The awards had been devoted to the late Papa Aly Gaye, who was a science instructor at Assane Seck College in Ziguinchor.
Ibrahima Nour Eddine Diagne, normal administrator of Gaïndé 2000 and present PCA of the UASZ, and Professor Evelyne Siga, director of the UFR 2S, had been chosen respectively because the godfather and godmother of this version.
The director of communications at UASZ, Professor Marie Ndiaye, is the goddess of Miss Sciences.
Professor Diène Ngom defined that the purpose of the olympiades is to encourage college students to put money into scientific topics (arithmetic, bodily sciences and life and earth sciences). “It is a chance for us to inform them that we now have to work on these topics. These are topics that may help us within the improvement of our nation,” stated Professor Ngom. The latter can also be a instructor researcher within the arithmetic division of Assane Seck College in Ziguinchor.
He urged mother and father to help the scholars and provides them the required means in order that they will achieve faculty.
Welcoming this initiative, the inspector of Ziguinchor academy (IA), Cheikh Faye, thanked Assane Seck College in Ziguinchor who, he stated, was type sufficient to arrange this ceremony to interrupts the top of the science and science Olympiad course of.
In line with him, “Ziguinchor is without doubt one of the most backward areas by way of studying science”.
“We nonetheless have a low illustration of science college students in the highschool inhabitants,” he lamented. The variety of college students who concentrate on science programs in secondary training is round 11% for your complete area, he stated.
He believes that “it’s a problem for the academy to extend the variety of college students within the science sequence at highschool stage”.
“I welcome this qualitative change that’s taking place by way of the efficiency of girls and boys. Not solely are ladies properly represented via this extremely selective competitors, and amongst those that obtain awards, the bulk are ladies,” stated Cheikh Faye .
The coordinator of the Science Olympiads, Professor Emmanuel Cabral, recollects that “these Olympiads attempt to promote scientific research within the southern areas, however above all to encourage the efforts of -to reward studying”. He stated that “this ceremony creates a problem and extra enthusiasm amongst college students for scientific topics”.
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2024-06-09 12:01:00
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