FUND ORGANISES SCIENCE SCHOOL FOR JHS GRADUATES (Page 25)

1/07/08


Story: Mary Mensah
THE Tetteh Quarshie Educational Fund, promoters of science education in the rural areas in collaboration with Hershey Corporation of Pensylvania, USA, has organised a vacation science school for junior high school graduates in Mampong in the Eastern Region.
The aim of the vacation school was to help graduates in the rural areas to focus on science education and to give them a head start before going to senior high school.
According to the President and Founder of the fund, Mr Horace Dei, it was the belief of the organisers that if special programmes were made available to the young ones from the early primary to middle school age it would help them to make informed choices in the future.
He said the fund was established some eight years ago to assist schools in Mampong and its environs and so far it had developed a complete computer learning centre, a carpentry centre and an uncompleted home science centre for students in the community.
Mr Dei said the fund had also supplied computers, textbooks and other learning materials to some schools in Mampong.
Opening the school, Professor Marian Addy from the University of Ghana advised the students not to shy away from science and mathematics.
She said science was very important in the life of every nation, and that all advanced countries had taken science very seriously.
She said many pupils saw science as a subject for only brilliant pupils and that “you are just as good as anybody else so talk to yourself and examine yourself”.
She urged the participants to take the vacation school very seriously because by so doing they would become citizens who took decisions based on facts and knowledge.
For his part, Rev J. K. B. Appiah-Acheampong, Supt Minister of the Methodist Church, advised the participants to take the training very seriously.
“As young ones it is important to take every opportunity that comes your way and try to do something that will benefit you and the society you live in,” he said.
Learning materials were distributed to the participants.