The 2018 Science & Technology Challenge sponsored by Oysters & Pearls-Uganda was won by Kiira College Butiki. Their winning entry was a model of a ‘Smart Farm’, an automatic greenhouse designed to solve the problem of unpredictable weather, the burden of manual irrigation and pests and diseases.
Gulu University students at O&P Tech Lab
Lack of, or inadequate science materials, in addition to ill-equipped laboratories in most Universities in Uganda have always led to the passing-out of poorly trained science graduates who are unable to innovate, or solve simple problems in the community. Oysters & Pearls – Uganda is filling that vacuum, by giving hands-on training to Gulu University students in Computer Science topics at their makerspace.
In the last week of October, Oysters & Pearls – Uganda trained Gulu University students in robotics and programming, among other technology related topics. More than fifty students benefited from the program, and some of them confessed to have gotten their first hands-on experience.
Now, the students gather at the Oysters & Pearls – Uganda Lab every Wednesday and Thursday, to get more practical skills in various fields in technology.
Fernando Opifeera, a first year student Bachelor of Science in ICT says the makerspace is giving him an opportunity to learn more in his course because; “At the Makerspace, I am able to match the theory I learned at the university with its practical application .”
This initiative is also simplifying the learning process of a number of the science students
