Projects at the 2015 SAGE National Exhibition and Awards.
WIBITECH Winners SAGE Team –Winners International School ,Nkpo ,Anambra State: WIBITECH Bio-gas Plant
WIBITECH is a bio-gas plant which can generate bio –gas for cooking and bio-fertilizer form disposable waste from their community.Bio-gas project was created to help improve healthy leaving, Improve electricity, create employment and reduce global warming in their community.
The team collected cow dung from slaughter houses and food waste from different households, schools, local food joints which serves as raw waste material to produce gas .
The WIBITECH team emerged the 2nd Runner Up at the 2015 SAGE National Exhibition and Awards.
Creative Brains SAGE Team –Government Secondary School,Garki,Abuja
Project :BEE KeepingTo the teams greatest surprise, They found out in every 100 patient, 20 were suffering from diabetics and5 being young, showing the high rate of diabetics in the world of today. The team decided to go into the production of a new brand of honey gotten from the combination of two botanical origins into a unique blend that has dark amber colour .
The team took a blood sugar level test on members of their school both teachers and students, before and after the administration of their honey, after 5week a test was conducted, they found out that for those who had elevated blood sugar level, a slight reduction was noticed and those with normal sugar level it was found out their sugar level remained constant.
Presently their honey is recommended by pharmacists and doctors from various hospitals so that patients can have access to high quality natural honey and also found in shops. The team secured the 1st Runner Up position at the competition.
The Craft House SAGE Team –University of Calabar International Demonstration Secondary School ,Calabar.
Project :CAL –BIOFUEL
Harmful gases which includes fossil fuel burning and deforestation is one of the major causes that gives an upwards push for the amount of green house gases in the atmosphere causing global warming contributing to health problems.
The SAGE Team saw an immediate need for an alternative eco –friendly fuel, thus embarked on the production of biodiesel utilizing waste cooking oil sin their community which was branded CAL-BIOFUEL ,with the advantages of been safe to produce ,low toxicity and high bio-degradability etc.
The team created a cooking oil collection programme Tagged “Drops of Life “through this programme an environmental awareness was created to highlight the importance of used cooking oil recycling instead of disposing them indiscriminately.
As a sign of massive improvement, the venture has currently attracted numerous interested costumers and members of the Drop of Life “Programme. The Craft House SAGE team won the 1st Position in the Social Enterprise Business category of the competition which gave them the ticket to represent the country at the 2015 SAGE World Cup in Seoul, South Korea, where they faced teams from China, Russia, Kazakhstan, USA, Philippines etc.
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