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Press Release: Hult Prize Information Session at Mak a Success

Published

3 years ago

November 14, 2019

Mark Wamai

Some of the participants that took part in the Hult Prize Information Session on 13th November 2019, Senate Conference Room, Makerere University, Kampala Uganda, in preparation December Pitch Competition.

Makerere University, the home of innovations on 13^th November hosted a Hult prize information session in preparations for the forthcoming pitch competition scheduled for 9^th December 2019.

The event that attracted students and with over 60 innovations from all corners and edges of the university was hosted at the Makerere University Senate Conference Room from 2:00 – 4:00pm.

The Hult Prize on-campus Directorate led by the Director, Mr. Silver Walugembe and the Ministry of ICT and research of the Students Guild led by the Honorable Kiggundu Rodney derived a great strategy of ideals for a series of the Hult Prize events for this year, with a sole goal of teams making it to the global stage competitions, whilst possessing a strong conviction of its possibility, this could only attract several partners i.e. MARULA creative consultancy alongside team Proteen, Marula Creative Consultancy, Legal Innovation Hub and Katende Ssempebwa Advocates.

During the session, all these parties of partners offered in depth knowledge and guidance to the teams participating in aspects of capacity building, confidence, pitching skills, choice of words, body movement among others whereas furthermore extending the courtesy by sharing the readable content over email.

The Directorate believes that experience is the best teacher hence invited team Proteen, a team that made it to the global stage competitions of the previous year to share their experience with the participants.

This was a very fruitful engagement as the participants were asked to do sample pitches hence realizing their areas of strength and weaknesses, this was summed up with a Q &A session. This eventually left the participants very contented and confident in their ideas and all believed that they could take up the challenge and traverse all the stages moving forward.

“Registration is still ongoing through our official link hultprizeat.com/makerere, we shall be closing this link on the 5^th of December 2019” said Silver Walugembe, the campus Director. The innovators are now looking forward to the pitch event on 9th December 2019 at CTF 2 auditorium and be part of the noble cause whilst having a chance to win US$1million.

We also extend our sincere appreciations to our partners, the participants and everyone else whose contribution has brought us this far and we hope to continue working closely with you to see that our dream is realized.

Thank you and God bless you all.

Engineering, Art & Tech

A Successful Ph.D. Defense by Vianney Andrew Yiga

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2 days ago

October 5, 2022

Alex Isemaghendera

The CEDAT community is proud to share our congratulations to Vianney Andrew Yiga following his successful Ph.D. defense that happened yesterday Monday 3^rd October 2022 at the College of Engineering, Design, Art, and Technology (CEDAT).

His Thesis was titled; Thermal Stability of Fiber- Reinforced Polylactic Acid Composites for Flameretarded Applications.

The candidate was supervised by Eng. Dr. Michael Lubwama and Eng. Dr. Peter W. Olupot both from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at CEDAT.

Dr. John Wasswa, Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences (CONAS), Makerere University was the opponent that interrogated the candidate to enable a clear understanding of the study.

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Makerere University Launches National Parenting Draft Manual

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4 days ago

October 3, 2022

Mak Editor

The Director of Culture at the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Ms. Juliana Naumo Akoryo (Centre) and Dr. Godfrey Siu, the Principal Investigator from Mak-CHDC (Right) interact with a participant at the workshop on 22nd July 2022, Kampala.

_{By Agnes Namaganda}

On July 22^nd 2022, Makerere University–Child Health and Development Centre (Mak–CHDC) launched a draft manual for the National Parenting Standards. The Centre has been working together with the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) with funding from UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund), to develop standards that are agreeable to all organisations in the country that are involved in parenting work. The draft manual was being presented to members of a consortium that brings together all these organisations together, called the Parenting Agenda Consortium.

“We produce many documents and they are shelved,” Irene Ayot Chono, who was speaking on behalf of UNICEF said. “We hope that this document will not be one of them,” she emphasized.

Irene Ayot Chono-UNICEF, urging participants to utilize the manual once it is complete.

Dr. Godfrey Siu, the Principal Investigator from Mak-CHDC who presented the draft manual to participants, emphasized that if any organization is doing parenting work, there should be a minimum package that they should offer.

Draft Manual Content

The manual which will have several modules. These modules will be delivered face-to-face in 1.5 hour sessions. Some of these include; Module 6 which will focus on “understanding responsible masculinity and fatherhood” and on “understanding the concept of head of family.”The draft manual also proposed that Module 11 focuses on Parenting in the 21^st Century. Some of the sessions in this module will include Children and Technology, Contemporary Influence on Children and Modernity, Culture and Morality.Module 9 will focus on Parenting for Adolescents and some of the suggested sessions within this module are Needs for Adolescents and The Art of Communicating with Adolescents. Module 5 will focus on Preventing Violent Parenting and Promoting Alternative Discipline Strategies while Module 10 will be about Parenting to Address the Mental Health for Children and Adults.

Dr. Godfrey Siu, the Principal Investigator from Mak-CHDC presenting the contents of the National Parenting Standards Draft Manual.

Participants’ suggestions

After the presentation, participants raised several suggestions for discussion and consideration. These included whether there should be a module on spirituality since Uganda is a strongly religious nation. There was also the concern of how children in remand homes should be parented. Another concern raised by a participant was as to whether teachers who make an undeniable contribution to parenting, should be taken through the parenting manual.

A participant gives her input at the National Parenting Standards Draft Manual launch.

In her closing remarks, Ms. Juliana Naumo Akoryo, the Director of Cultural Affairs at the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) said that the manual is for the parenting organisations to utilize and not for MGLSD.

The Director of Culture at the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Ms. Juliana Naumo Akoryo making closing remarks at the workshop.

Ms. Chono also adjured the team behind the manual to use picture illustrations in the manual that can be relatable by the Ugandan parents.

Contact: Agnes Namaganda – agnesvioletnamaganda@gmail.com

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Launch of Mak-RIF Round 4 Awards & PhD Call for Proposals

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1 week ago

September 28, 2022

Mak Editor

Mak-RIF 4 Awards and PhD Call For Proposals, 29th September 2022, 9:00 to 10:00 AM EAT.

Makerere University received funding from the Government of the Republic of Uganda, earmarked to support high impact Research and Innovations. This unique initiative arose after engagements between the top University Management and the Government of Uganda. This fund illustrates the increasing importance that the Government attaches to Research and Innovation as a driver of development and transformation. The objective of the fund is to increase the local generation of translatable research and scalable innovations that address key gaps required to drive Uganda’s development agenda.

In the Financial years 2019/2020, 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 the Government of the Republic of Uganda through Mak-RIF has funded implementation of over 750 multidisciplinary research and innovations within the various Colleges, while engaging multiple stakeholders within and outside Makerere University. The Grants Management Committee (GMC) has finalized the award process for the Mak-RIF round 4 call for funding for this Financial Year 2022/2023.

The Grants Management Committee (GMC) hereby invites you to the Launch of the Mak-RIF Round 4 awards and PhD Call for Proposals scheduled to take place tomorrow Thursday 29^th September 2022 from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. EAT.

Please use the following details to join the launch.

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpcu-urDIjE9ZgxdsbEmA2IkNMMiJVECt_
Meeting ID: 884 5662 9992
Password: 292624