{"id":6067,"date":"2021-11-12T14:13:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T14:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/?p=6067"},"modified":"2021-11-12T14:29:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T14:29:49","slug":"aims-alumnus-nkuiate-harris-sop-celebrates-world-science-day-with-give-back-science-advocacy-climate-change-awareness-in-buea-university-and-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/aims-alumnus-nkuiate-harris-sop-celebrates-world-science-day-with-give-back-science-advocacy-climate-change-awareness-in-buea-university-and-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"AIMS Alumnus NKUIATE HARRIS SOP Celebrates WORLD SCIENCE DAY With \u201cGive-Back\u201d Science Advocacy & Climate Change Awareness in Buea University and Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 10e<\/sup> was set aside by UNESCO as World Science Day for Peace and Development to commemorate the importance of science in building peaceful and sustainable societies. The day aimed to strengthen public awareness, promote solidarity, renew commitments, and draw attention to challenges faced by science and raise support. The theme of this year\u2019s celebration was \u201cBuilding Climate-ready Communities\u201d. This theme comes at a time when the world is faced with a global climate challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About 300 students were drilled on climate change and its effects<\/strong> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Keeping with the AIMS \u201cGive-Back\u201d culture, the Science Catalysis association led by Nkuiate Harris Sop, an AIMS alumnus from the Climate Science stream, joined the rest of the world to spread, organize and connect with the public on Science Day. The day was celebrated in collaboration with the Environmental Science Students Association (ESSA) at the University of Buea, and Words Bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About 10 passionate students attended the talk on Science Advocacy and were taught the importance of advocating for science and how to advocate. <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Activities carried out at the secondary school level included an Essay writing contest on, \u201cScience and Peace,\u201d and an awareness campaign of, \u201cClimate Change: Causes, Effects, and Mitigation\/Adaption.\u201d The writing contest received essays from Inter Comprehensive High School, Buea, and Lyc\u00e9e Bilingue de Koutaba. The winners of this competition will be awarded cash prizes. \u00a0Meanwhile, about 10 passionate students attended the talk on Science Advocacy and were taught the importance of advocating for science and how to advocate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The awareness campaign took place at Summerset Bilingual College in Buea, and the classes targeted were Lower Sixth Arts and Upper Sixth Science. About 300 students were drilled on climate change and its effects. The students were receptive and asked fascinating questions like, \u201chow can inorganic waste be properly disposed of\u201d, among others. They were then educated on the opportunities in science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the University of Buea, a talk on \u201cScience Advocacy for Students\u201d was given to some undergraduate and postgraduate students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although a talk on \u201cScience and Environment,\u201d scheduled on the science day at Chariot FM radio and an advocacy talk could not hold because of technical and administrative challenges, the celebration was a success, given the enthusiasm expressed by students targeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The celebration was a success<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November 10th was set aside by UNESCO as World Science Day for Peace and Development to commemorate the importance of science in building peaceful and sustainable societies. The day aimed to strengthen public awareness, promote solidarity, renew commitments, and draw attention to challenges faced by science and raise support. The theme of this year\u2019s celebration<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":6070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"news_types":[32],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"george","author_link":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/author\/george\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/11\/WSD-1-300x135.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Publi\u00e9 4 ans il y a","modified":"Mis \u00e0 jour 4 ans il y a"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Publi\u00e9 le novembre 12, 2021","modified":"Mise \u00e0 jour le novembre 12, 2021"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Publi\u00e9 le novembre 12, 2021 2:13 ","modified":"Mise \u00e0 jour le novembre 12, 2021 2:29 "},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6075,"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions\/6075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"news_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_types?post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}