The Green energy challenge!

Written By Wilhemina Naa Arduah Tackie

•April 26, 2024

A team comprising of past Student Representative Council members (SRC) and the Starzec energy company, a fast-uprising Ghanaian company aimed at the reduction of carbon blueprints and emissions in the country organized the green energy challenge. The challenge tasked students to create innovative solutions and ideas to reduce the carbon emissions in the Knust community and its environs. The event’s maiden inauguration was held in the Kwame Nkrumah Museum building on the Kwame Nkrumah university of Science and Technology campus in Kumasi.

As part of the vision of the Materials Innovation Hub, to equip its students with problem solving skills, meaningful connections, and innovative thinking to solutions in a world of rapidly developing technological advancements and edge-cutting innovations, members were encouraged to form groups and apply for the challenge. After applying, six out of the ten teams that applied from MiH successfully entered the challenge and advanced to further stages in the competition. The “Hydrogen Fuel Cell” ,"Microbial fuel cell" and “Biogas Technology” are some of the solutions entered in the competition by teams representing the Hub.

In Pictures: Green Energy challenge participants (Hub members included)

Nonetheless, five of the six teams finally advanced to the semi-finals stage after rigours activities held by organizers of the challenge. The competition included students from various disciplines, notable among them is Agriculture, Business, Electrical engineering, Petroleum engineering and chemical engineering. Additionally, participants from the materials engineering department were Hub representatives with a few of their own accord. Team Hydrogen fuel cell, of the remaining five MiH teams among the semi-finalist teams successfully reached the final stages of the competition. The Hydrogen fuel cell team emerged fifth place at the competition’s end.

In pictures: Team Hydro (from MiH) presenting at the finals

Wilhemina Naa Arduah Tackie

Wilhemina Tackie, popularly known as Mina is an extremely talented writer who is passionate about Materials science, Energy, Quantum computing, Scientific innovation and Machine learning. In all her writing there is a feeling of intimacy between what she writes about as they are being read. Her free flowing, eloquent and thought provoking writing sends shivers down the spine of many and mostly realigns the thought processes of her readers.