Toyota rewards 9 kids in art contest
As part of efforts to unearth creativity in young
children in Ghana, Toyota Ghana Company Limited has rewarded 9 kids who emerged
winners in its 10th Dream Car Art Contest Awards Ceremony for
presenting the best artwork intended to help solve problem in communities.
Yaw Omane Boamah receiving his prize from MD of Toyota Ghana, Mr. Tetsuya Suematsu |
The 9 awardees represent the Top 3 winners
selected from three categories of children less than 8 years, children between
18years and 11years and children between 12 and 15 years respectively.
They were rewarded with fantastic prizes
including bicycles with safety protective sets, Toyota branded bags and
electronic tablets with already downloaded learning kits.
For the first category of winners, Yaw Obeng
Omane Boamah, a student of the Merton International School, emerged the overall
winner followed by Aislyn Nyarko Owusu-Bempah and Berthleen Baaba Ntsefoa
Fletcher respectively.
The second category of winners saw Adrijaa Pal,
who is also a student of Merton International School in Accra, adjudged the
overall winner whilst Henry Danso Yeboah of the Crown Prince Academy came
second followed by Ama Obeng-Sakyi as 3rd place winner.
Caleb Enam Banini, a student of Morning Star
International School topped the third category. He was followed by Evelyn
Akosua Bonsu of Crown Prince Academy School while Emmanuel John Mahama was
declared the 3rd place winner.
Speaking at the award ceremony, Managing Director
of Toyota Ghana, Tetsuya Suematsu, said the top 3 awardees will also stand the
chance to represent Ghana at the world stage in an international event –the
World Contest slated to take place in Japan in August.
They will be up for a grand prize if their
artworks are selected.
According to the Toyota MD, this year’s contest
is the 10th in history since Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) of Japan
began the Dream Car Art Contest awards.
He noted that about 674 entries of artwork were
received this year by TMC with Ghana topping the list of countries around the
world with the highest figure.
200 were shortlisted before it was finally
narrowed down to the first top 3 adjudged winners within the 3 categories.
Minister of Education Professor Naana Opoku
Agyemang extolled the participants for the excellent creativity exuded during
the contest, urging them not to relent in their efforts to be creative always
in their academic works.
She equally advised the kids to endeavour to read
copiously and also research new ideas so as to contribute immensely to shaping
the world.
The Minister in a speech read on behalf of her by
the Director of Pre-Tertiary Education of the Ministry of Education, Mad.
Rabiana Azara Amandi, lauded Toyota Ghana for showing keen interest in “not
only the sale of cars, but also contributing to promotion of education in the
country”.
The Toyota Dream Car Art Contest is an
annual art competition for children up age of 15.
The competition invites children from all over
the world to express their creativity by drawing their dream cars that can
solve a problem in their community.
The competition also rewards each of the 200
shortlisted entries for the level of creativity displayed with Toyota branded
books and school supplies.
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