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AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION AT THE HEART OF CKA’S LEAD
PITCH AT CONRAD CHALLENGE 2024 (Cont’d)

Team CKA Among Top Ten Contestants, Over $1 Million Scholarship Grants Bagged by

Team Members

Describing his experience at the CONRAD challenge, Oluwanifemi Bankole, the team head for
the GreenTech project noted that “the experience was an outstanding one which availed the

students an opportunity to grow and work as a team.” Although they expressed some
discouragement over not clinching any of the top three overall positions, the students remain
committed to improving their projects and developing innovative technology ahead of the
next edition of the CONRAD Challenge.

With a commendation from the CONRAD panel of judges, the CKA team received the awards

for the most resilient team, the best pitch in the health and nutrition category, and best team
coach, which was won by Mr. Femi Oyedoyin, a Biology/Agric teacher and STEM Coordinator.
The participating students, twenty-three of them, have also received scholarship grants of
$60,000 each, which amounts to $1,380,000, from recognized universities in the USA.

Owing to their noteworthy performance at the Innovation Stage of the Challenge, the

students were also recognised by Space Center, Houston with scholarship opportunities to
study at Menlo College, Lewis & Clark College, and Clarkson University, among others. It is
worthy of note that two students from the team have already secured admission to study at
Clarkson University, New York.

Semilore Oriyomi, one of the students who has participated in the CONRAD Challenge twice,

and a member of the GreenTech team, expressed her gratitude for the scholarship grants, as
the team coach, Mr. Femi Oyedoyin, also reacted on the outcome of the 2024 CONRAD
Challenge.
Delighted by the students’ performance and resilience, the Head of School at City of
Knowledge Academy, Ms. Abiola Lamikanra, commended their efforts and has charged them
to, “roll up their sleeves as they prepare for Conrad 2025. The next huge innovation is yet to
be unfolded by CKA students – the world is waiting.”