By Our Reporter
MultiChoice Uganda has announced winners of the 2015 DStv Eutelsat Star Awards competition at a prize giving ceremony held at their head offices in Kololo yesterday.
The fifth installment of the science and technology based competition saw Gayaza High school’s Amanda Biwoye take top honors in the best essay category while Benjamin Ibanda from Kings College Buddo won in the best poster category. The runners up were Ian Lumonya of Kings College Buddo and Cyrus Mpagi of St. Mary’s College Kisubi who won the essay and poster categories respectively.
The DStv Eutelsat Star Awards are as a result of a partnership between MultiChoice Africa and Eutelsat aimed at stimulating interest in science and technology by inspiring innovative thinking among secondary and high school students in 42 countries across Africa. Students from all over the continent participate in writing an essay or designing a poster depicting how innovative use of satellite technology in the fields of communication, earth observation or navigation can propel Africa into the future.
Congratulating the students at the event, MultiChoice Uganda’s Public Relations & Communications Manager Tina Wamala noted that the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards is an annual competition that is in line with the company’s Corporate Social Investment Strategy.
“MultiChoice understands that science and technology is a major development driver that is shaping the present and the future of our generation and therefore the reason for which we invest in this competition. Our partnership with Eutelsat is passionately based on our common belief that the two fields are great contributors to digitalizing Africa, a transformation path that is inherent in our DNA,
