Host Thika TTI Goes Home Empty-Handed As 2016 Nairobi TIVET Fair Ends.
Among the winners were Kabete TTI who won both the ICT and
the Mechanical Engineering categories. The others were Kenya Technical Teachers
College (Applied Sciences), Wote TTI from Makueni County (Building & Civil
Engineering) and Nairobi TTI (Institutional Management).
Speaking while presiding over the closing ceremony of the
Nairobi Region Fair, TIVET Director Mr. Bashir H. Mursal said that the goal of
the Robot Contest and the TIVET Fair was to inculcate a culture of innovation
in the TIVET graduates that could eventually be ploughed back to the national
development processes. It was also geared towards identifying innovative items
that could be produced for economic development.
He added that the fairs were an ideal platform for students
to look for demand-driven careers. In line with government’s policy to promote
business and technology incubation, he advised institutions to source funds
for production of best items.
“Technical and vocational Institutions should take advantage
of the Youth Fund to take loans that will enable them make large-scale
production of these innovative projects for national use,” he said.
He called on the participants to always ensure that their
innovations were underpinned to specific scientific research while ensuring
those that were a repeat of some previous works, bore creativity through
modifications, new methods, materials and so on.
The event was organized by the Kenya Association of
Technical Training Institutions (KATTI), an umbrella body that brings together
all TIVET institutions, both private and public. This is in line with Kenya’s
Vision 2030 development blueprint which envisions a transformation into a newly
industrialized, middle-income country. It encourages the scientific community
and the public to participate in scientific engagements towards addressing
critical national problems.
To benchmark the country’s achievements with the rest of the
world, case studies on innovations, research paper presentations, TIVET fair
shows, Robot competitions and exhibitions from Innovators are used to promote
their efforts to transform scientific research in Kenya into entrepreneurship
and attract investments.
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