7th Grade 13 year old Kenyan American boy who
won Cool Science Award in Lowell
Sam Mwea Ngare, a 13
year old Kenyan American boy in Lowell Massachusetts
was among 4 students
who won the 2013 Cool Science Award for his amazing drawing depicting the
effects of science on our future life. The 7th grade student at the Wang Middle
school will be awarded the prize Friday April 5 at the Umass Lowell on 61 Wilder,
and his drawing will run as a promotional advertisement on all Lowell transit
buses for the entire month of April 2013.
The cool science award
is a collaborative effort between the University of Massachusetts
Lowell’s Graduate
School of Education and the University of Massachusetts Boston's
Department of
Environmental, Earth, and Ocean Sciences. The Cool Science team brings an
inter-disciplinary
approach to the challenge of improving public understanding of climate change
science.
Cool Science aims to
engage students, teachers, parents, and the general public with the
science of climate
change.
for various art
projects presented by 10th grade students from all over the state of
Massachusetts.
"I felt surprised
that I won. I really did not think my drawing was that good to win," said
Sam
while speaking to
AjabuAfrica.com during an interview at his home on Mill street apartments in
Lowell.
According to the young
Kenyan, when her teacher, Ms. Magnus, came into the classroom one
day and announced that
a competition on climate change was going on, he immediately got curious and
decided to take part.
"I thought about
how our activities are changing the weather patterns these days."It's like
we
Are supposed to be in
spring now and we just had a big snow storm several days ago. Ice is
melting in the Artic
and disrupting life for everything including penguins. Last year, Halloween
was postponed to a
Sunday because there was a storm," he said.
The young man said
that if human beings can start using electric cars more often, use solar panel
to generate electricity for our houses instead generating it from coal gas or
water, then we
can make a big strides
towards restoring and conserving the regular weather patterns.
"We can also use
windmills more," he quipped.
Sam was then able to
translate his exact thoughts into a beautiful drawing that won the April
contest. It was
fittingly titled " We can change".
An entry titled
"Be a Hero - Plant a Tree" by Reybekah, an eighth grader in Ms.
Piekos' class a the Bartlett Community Partnership School in Lowell, Mass. took
the runners up position.
Sam said he will
receive a $200 gift card from Amazon that he plans to put towards purchasing a
laptop. Born in Lowell on October 4, 1999, the young Kenyan said math is his
favorite subject and he "We can Change", by Sam Ngare
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