PAST EVENTS
May 2025
The Ghana Forward Essay Challenge
💡“What’s the one question Ghana isn’t asking — but should be?"💡
Earlier this year, the Interdisciplinary Forward Essay Challenge invited high school and university students across Ghana to ask bold, future-shaping questions and explore untapped possibilities for the country’s development. The response was inspiring — filled with insight, creativity, and critical thought.
Now, we are excited to announce the winners of the challenge:
🏆 1st Place – Manteaw Cece Afia Nana Amissah
Essay: The Role Human Resource Development—Particularly the Youth—Plays in Sustainable Development in Ghana
🥈 2nd Place – Jephert Danso Abbeam
Essay: Who Owns Ghana’s Data? The Unspoken Crisis of Digital Sovereignty
🥉 3rd Place – Benedict Ofori Debrah
Essay: Where Are We Heading?
✨ Congratulations to all participants for pushing boundaries and helping reimagine Ghana’s future. Winners will receive certificates, mentorship, and invitations to join an international leadership forum on June 28th
🔒 Submissions are now closed.
Stay tuned for upcoming opportunities to shape the discourse — and the future.
March 15th 2025
Interdisciplinary Battles - The Problem of Poverty
On March 15th, we had the privilege of hosting Interdisciplinary Battles: The Problem of Poverty at the Canadian International School.
It was an incredible day filled with innovation, collaboration, and inspiring ideas as participants came together to tackle one of the most pressing global issues: poverty.
🏆 Prize Fund: 70,000 KZT + Special Partner Prizes!
📅 Date: March 15, 2025
📍 Location: Canadian International School
Event Highlights:
🔹 Theoretical Test: Participants showcased their knowledge of poverty through a comprehensive test based on preparation materials. This stage was all about understanding the depth of the issue.
🔹 Hands-on Project: Teams worked on developing and presenting real-world solutions to poverty. From creative initiatives to practical strategies, it was amazing to see such passion and problem-solving in action.
We’d like to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who participated, supported, and helped make this event a success. Let’s continue to collaborate and think outside the box to address challenges like poverty and make a positive impact on our world.
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Work done by the participants:
May 2024
STEAM Battles Lowell High School Canada
This time, STEAM Battles focused on sustainable architecture. Students had a limited time to explore and create a prototype of a sustainable home, using ecological materials, renewable energy, and other sustainable practices.
Relevance to Subjects:
- Physics: Insulation, energy efficiency
- Chemistry: Useful chemical reactions, green chemistry, dynamic equilibrium
- Biology: Safeguarding biodiversity, ecosystems, and the impact of architectural design on human health and well-being
- Design: Eco-home design
- Technology: Sensors and technological tools for sustainable homes
- Arts: The impact of colors, shapes, and artistic elements on well-being; exploring architectural styles of different eras and their ecological impact, such as Gaudí’s work
- CAS: Creativity
- FPPL / Local Communities: Exploring the impact on local communities and investigating the knowledge, techniques, and architecture used by local and indigenous people in their environments
December 2023
STEAM Battles 1.0
The initiative of STEAM Battles aims to revolutionize the education landscape by equipping high school and middle school students with practical skills, teamwork abilities, and communication competencies essential for their future success. The implementation strategy, which is already underway, involves coordinating efforts amongst various academic institutions globally to transform STEAM Battles into an international endeavor.
The second stage of the inaugural event brought together 95 individuals from all over Kazakhstan (Astana, Almaty, Karaganda, and Atyrau) and received over 200 applications to attend the event on the first stage. The preparatory phase took 3 months and included over 30 volunteers. We acquired over 100 KGs of props. The objective of the hands-on project was that each team had to attempt to build a construction that was able to hold the maximum weight of 30 kgs/66 lbs. Moreover, by including the component of financial literacy, specifically practiced through purchasing materials with our inter-olympiad currency, we improved the financial literacy skills of all participants.
November 2023
Charity Fair
In just one day, our Charity Fair raised $400 to support our organisation's mission. By providing students with a platform to showcase and sell their goods-ranging from pastries to crafted handmade tools - we engaged over 70 individuals in our fundraising efforts. Ulytau Foundation, consequently after witnessing our deeds, bestowed us $600.
September-October 2023
Eco Challenge
In the span of 2 months we collaborated with all classes and held an eco-challenge.The eco-challenge aimed to promote sustainability and student agency by implementing an innovative approach that incorporated responsible consumption and production, sustainable communities, and climate action from the SDGs. The primary strategy involved collaborating with all classes and organizing an eco-challenge, where students collected paper, cardboard, and plastic bottles to be used as props for a subsequent event. The initiative resulted in the collection of approximately 100 kgs of paper/cardboard and 50 kg of plastic.
