Ominance has launched its Inter-College Project Competition competition, The themes this year is “Health is a Nation’s most valuable wealth. How to adopt a holistic approach towards healthcare and wellbeing in Mauritius over the next decade to effectively tackle the high prevalence of diabetes and its associated chronic complications to reduce its socio- economic impacts on the country?”
The inter-college project competition is organised by Omnicane Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Tertiary Education, Science and Technology.
Teams participating in the competition are expected to produce an online PowerPoint presentation to support a 15-minute oral presentation on the abovementioned theme and be prepared to make the oral presentation using appropriate supporting web tools, should the team be shortlisted to do so by the Jury. Online presentation dates, as applicable, will be set by Omnicane Foundation.
The competition is open to all registered colleges of the Republic of Mauritius but limited to pupils of Grade 11 (ex-Form V) and Grades 12 & 13 (ex-Lower and Upper VI) (or equivalent).
Each project shall be prepared by a team of FIVE students, one of whom shall be the Team Leader. Teams composed of more than, or less than, FIVE members will not be allowed to participate. Teamwork is expected to be online, as such relevant bookkeeping to be done for submission with the relative project annexures.
Projects should reflect the combined and joint effort of all five members of the respective teams. A college may enter more than one team but shall not enter more than FOUR (4) teams.
No student shall be allowed to be a member of more than one team.
With the objective of promoting a paperless competition and endorsing social distancing, all projects shall be exclusively worked and submitted online, including research related discussions/interviews.
The Jury will be composed of: Mr Pierre Dinan (Chairperson), Mr Ashok Kalleechurn, Dr Aveeraj Peedoly
