{"id":78549,"date":"2014-02-12T00:16:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T16:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eutelsat-and-multichoice-recognize-students-from-zambia-and-ghana\/"},"modified":"2014-02-12T00:16:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T16:16:16","slug":"eutelsat-and-multichoice-recognize-students-from-zambia-and-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eutelsat-and-multichoice-recognize-students-from-zambia-and-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat and MultiChoice Recognize Students from Zambia and Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_139373\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139373\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-139373 \" alt=\"Nana Opoku-Agyeman, Ghana\u2019s minister of education\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/file-513845f68547d.jpg\" width=\"168\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/file-513845f68547d.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/file-513845f68547d-243x200.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-139373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nana Opoku-Agyeman, Ghana\u2019s minister of education. Photo: Ministry of Education, Ghana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 02-11-2014] <b>MultiChoice <\/b>and <b>Eutelsat<\/b> have joined together to create the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards, a pan-African student competition created to raise awareness and excitement for space technology in the younger generation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the fast-changing digital landscape, we have an obligation to Africa\u2019s youth to ensure that they are empowered to adapt and to use their educational system to make meaningful change to their country and the continent\u2019s development agenda,\u201d said Nana Opoku-Agyeman, Ghana\u2019s minister of education. \u201cThe government recognizes that it cannot single handedly tackle the challenges faced by the sector and that public-private partnerships can also accelerate progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With more than 1,000 entries from 19 countries this year, two winners and two runners-up were selected in essay and poster categories. The students won trips to visit either a launch site or Eutelsat or MultiChoice facilities. The four winning schools attended by the overall award winners and runners-up were also rewarded with a DStv installation, including dish, television, state-of-the-art PVR decoder and free access to the DStv Education Bouquet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nana Opoku-Agyeman, Ghana\u2019s minister of education. Photo: Ministry of Education, Ghana [Via Satellite 02-11-2014] MultiChoice and Eutelsat have joined together to create the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards, a pan-African student competition created to raise awareness and excitement for space technology in the younger generation. \u201cWith the fast-changing digital landscape, we have an obligation to Africa\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}