My Thoughts: The Drama Challenge

By Hector Amoah

Hector Amoah

I don’t act. Those were the words that went through my mind after the announcement of the drama challenge about 3 days ago. Of course, once we found out that points will be given for complete group participation, my team spirit overcame my personal convictions or should I say my teammates intimidated me into submission. But of course, like all the other challenges we’ve had so far, once we got started on the preparation for it, we had a tremendous amount of fun! Each coaching group was given a topic to act out, showing it’s bad sides and coming up with a solution to the problems identified.

Participants’ Report: Day Six Part Two (Friday Night Live)

By Kessel Laryea

Group ‘Winners’ of the Drama Competition. No pun intended.

Friday Night proved to be one of the most interesting nights so far. Teams were divided into ten groups in which each team had a topic to act out. The topics ranged from politics to education and my personal favourite, religion. Each team acted with passion and fire, which seriously moved the crowd, who had emotions ranging from sadness to laughter.

Participants’ Report: Day Six Part One (The Final Challenge)

By Samuele Hajar

Teams prepare for the final challenge

What a day! All we had learnt just a couple of days ago was put to the test today. The challenge was in fact, a challenge. Our main ten teams were divided into sub groups thus resulting in 20 different teams all putting the sweat, tears and joy in one project. The challenge? Re-design the school system in Ghana into one that the government will appreciate and continue to invest in throughout the country. Impact, creativity, and communication were the judging parameters used.

Excuse the wind! (My thoughts)

By: Nana Ekow Sackey

Nana Ekow Sackey: “Excuse the Wind!”

Today’s design challenges, the Space Launch and the Object Propulsion, proved to be a testament to the value of true co-operation. They showed that a natural corollary of the cohesiveness present in teamwork was ingenuity in its purest form. The teams in each class were assigned these two design challenges that seemed plain and incongruous at first sight. However, beneath the surface, these challenges revealed the potency of collaboration and critical and lateral thinking.

Participants’ Report: Day Five

By: Kristine Atease, Gloria Sekyere & Abena Asabea Adjei

The AIX aerobics session.

We woke up around 5:30 AM, that cold morning, for aerobics. It was very tiresome but we had some fun. Then we prepared for the day. After breakfast, we had a mental challenge session and watched a video on how e-waste is picked at Agbogbloshie, and how the environment is polluted in the process.

Write-Ups (Poem): Ashesi—A place of Growth

By: Jude Ansah

Jude Ansah

It’s a place of learning where people come, once shy.

To exceed their limits and severe their comfort zone ties.

The process may be overbearing at first sight, much too great for some to endure.

But after a while, they end up wanting more and more.

Write-Ups (Poem): Day Blindness

By: Samuel Atule

Samuel Atule

Latin and Greek was all they could specialise in

Leaving behind their legacy; of their first president.

That is nonsense!!

My thoughts: Pitch Your Idea

By: Abigail Lartey

Abigail Lartey

Ok, so time to pitch ideas…

Really awesome, as I never imagined crazy ideas could really work! Imagine a world where there are no cars, no roads, but bubbles for transportation, or using trees for cars, or elevated roads where the roads are moving instead of the cars. Your eyes are open huh? Haha!

Participants’ Report: Day Four

By Alfred Amezah, Hector Amoah, Samuel Abugri & Rudolph Dadey

Participants brainstorm ideas during the Ideation session

Community, diversity and change? There are diverse people in any community. What’s most important is being able to respect everyone’s opinion and get along with everyone. Diversity offers us the opportunity to work with and experience different kinds of attitudes and work ethics. We learnt, among other things, why and how to impact change in our communities and had the opportunity to meet some remarkable people. IDEATION: Today was a bit challenging, but I learnt a lot from it. In our normal lives, when a problem comes up, lots of ideas come to mind. Sadly, majority of them are discarded. Going through this session I learnt it’s really good to have many ideas. When they come up do not judge them, just keep them because a crazy idea can actually be modified into a brilliant idea.

My thoughts: The Acid River Challenge

By: David Kojo Ofosu

Participants take on the Acid River Challenge

I wondered why “Acid River” as the challenge was thrown to my teammates and I, but that really didn’t matter. What mattered was the problem at hand. In the beginning, I was really psyched about it because I was finally off my butt and going to do something exciting—not that what we were doing inside was ‘boring’. But when the challenge started, I began to feel butterflies in my tummy because the constraints were many and I didn’t want to be the one to disappoint my team.