University of Education graduate wins award
A 33-year-old graduate of the University of Education, School of Technology Education, Kumasi campus, has built a cold store that can operate without electricity and still maintain the temperature in the chamber of the facility.
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The project by Ms Gladys Boanerges Anku, a teacher at Akpafo Senior High Technical School in the Volta Region, uses the hydraform technology, and is one of the project works from the Department of Construction and Wood Technology Education.
She was among the 8,518 students who graduated at the 4th and 5th sessions of the 19th congregation of the university on Thursday.
The hydraform building technology, which is popular in South Africa, conserves energy and prevents heat from entering the chamber.
The technology could maintain room temperature up to zero degrees.
Innovation Student Award
Her work won her the maiden Innovation Student Award instituted and presented by the Chartered Institute of Building (Ghana Chapter), and she took home cash and assorted items including a laptop.
Her work has been adopted by the institute which is to source for funding to engage industry players to popularise the technology in the country.
The Chairman of the University Governing Council, Dr Emmanuel Kenneth Andoh, indicated that Ms Anku’s achievement underpinned the fact that education was key to development and progress.
“It is the foundation for the successful development of skilled human resources for the advancement of any country. It is indeed, the surest way out of poverty for an individual or a nation,” he said while extolling the achievements of various award winners.
He said the university had over the last 22 years positioned itself as a competitive and high quality institution for the training of professional educators, researchers and community service providers in technology and related sciences.
