LAGOS STATE EMERGES OVERALL BEST IN Y2019 NATIONAL JETS COMPETITION
Lagos has emerged the overall best State at the year 2019 National Junior Engineers, Technicians and Scientists, (JETS) competitions held at the Federal Government College, Keffi, Nasarawa State.
The State team won 11 trophies, four of which were the Star Prizes namely – Overall Best State, Best Female JETS, Free Choice Project (Senior Category) and Basic Technology Competition.
Lagos also won 2nd positions in the Interstate Quiz Competition – Free Choice Project (Junior category), Chemistry Quiz Competition and Junior Mathematics Competition among others.
The Deputy Governor of Lagos State Dr. Idiat Oluranti Adebule, speaking on the feat achieved by the team, commended the participants for making the State proud, recalling that the team won 10 trophies and seven medals to emerge the 2nd overall best State at the 2017 edition of the JETS competition.
Adebule restated that while receiving and felicitating with the 2017 team, she expressed her discomfort to students and teachers about their second overall best position because Lagos, being the Centre of Excellence, could not afford to trail behind any other State and charged them to redouble their efforts.
“My joy knows no bounds that you took the challenge seriously and have delivered the Star trophy. I congratulate you and wish all of you the best as a group and as individual students”, Adebule said.
The National JETS competition is an annual competition aimed at popularising the teaching and learning of Science and technology in Schools while exposing the young, talented and intelligent scientists and technologists to the world beyond their locality.
The theme of this year’s annual National JETS competition was “Alternative Source of Energy for National Development” which was organised by the Federal Ministry of Education in collaboration with all the State Ministries of Education and the Federal Capital Territory (FTC), Abuja.
The competition was keenly contested with oral and written quiz competitions in Biology, Mathematics, Basic Technology, Physics, Chemistry, Basic Science, Agricultural Science, Computer Science and Project Exhibitions.
Students who represented the State at the event were drawn from both private and public schools across Lagos.