By Caroline Chebet, Giants Club African Conservation Fellow, The Standard. Published 9 June 2018. It has only one computer to its name. Yet the day school in a remote village in Njoro, Nakuru County, elbowed out national academic giants from the table of scientific innovations. Keriko Mixed Day School’s laboratory is a shell. But this […]
Students produce electricity using plant extracts
By Caroline Chebet, Giants Club African Conservation Fellow, The Standard. Published 28 September 2017. An encounter with itchy sisal juice while extracting fibre fired up an idea by two students to explore ways of generating power from plant extracts. The idea has led the two, students of Keriko High School in Njoro to emerge the […]
Tale of remote school that went against grain to dominate global stage
By Caroline Chebet, Giants Club African Conservation Fellow, The Standard. Published 26 March 2019. The sun burns with a hellish fervour as winds frantically whirl up the dust from the bare ground at Keriko Day Secondary School in Njoro. Exams are on. School bags hang delicately on the flowers outside the already full classrooms.
How world’s best tutor plans to spend Sh100m prize
By Caroline Chebet, Giants Club African Conservation Fellow, The Standard. Published 26 March 2019. As a testament of his generosity that helped him bag Sh100 million in a global competition, Peter Tabichi (pictured) has included his school, the local community and needy students in his grand plans of using his new-found windfall.