G Creative wins Best Nation Brand Award for ‘Make It Kenya’

G Creative wins Best Nation Brand Award for ‘Make It Kenya’

Hot on the heels of Grayling’s sweep at the African Excellence Awards, Graying META’s creative offer, G Creative, has won a Transform MENA Award in the Best Nation Brand category. G Creative won the award for the Make It Kenya Campaign, an international nation brand for the Kenya Ministry of Tourism, developed in 2015 and launched by Kenya’s President HE Uhuru Kenyatta at The Milan Expo 2015.

Carolina Salas, Head of G Creative, said of the win: “We’re delighted to have been recognized by Transform MENA with this award for the creation of the Make It Kenya brand. The G Creative and Grayling teams have put so much into the Make It Kenya campaign, so this win feels brilliant. Our biggest recognision has been to develop a brand that represents and identify Kenyans around the world and we are really proud of it.”

The full list of awards is as follows:

WINNER: Nation Brand – Make it kenya

Highly Commended:

Seha – Unwani campaign – Best photography style/illustration

Grayling – Brand refresh

Dettol-Proscalp – Brand experience

One of the Transform Award judges commented: “This was a really well-executed project. What stood out the most was not just the fact that it effectively met the challenge at hand or had a nice logo, but rather that the strategy was very comprehensive. The branding translated well across all channels and really does the job that the team intended. Well done.” 

The Make It Kenya brand was completely developed and produced by G Creative.

 More information on Make It Kenya here. 

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Grayling Team

19th May 2016

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Brit born and trained in Kenya wins Tour de France

Brit born and trained in Kenya wins Tour de France

Brit born and trained in Kenya wins Tour de France

UK cyclist Chris Froome, who was born and trained in Africa and speaks Swahili, says he hopes that his victory this month in the 100th Tour de France will inspire other young Africans.

Froome, 28, was born in Kenya to parents of British descent. At the age of 14, he moved to South Africa to go to school and then university in Johannesburg.

He was introduced to cycling by David Kinjah, a professional Kenyan cyclist, and won a cycling medal for Kenya in the 2007 All Africa Games.

His performances in 2008 attracted the attention of British Cycling coach, Rod Ellingworth who believed Froome had potential.

“Although I was riding under the Kenyan flag I made it clear that I had always carried a British passport and felt British,” said Froome earlier this year. “It was then we talked about racing under the Union Flag, and we stayed in touch.”

However, Froome’s father Clive, who still lives in Kenya, said his son “feels at home” in Kenya and South Africa just as much as he does in the UK.

“He has shared affiliation and affection for all three,” he said.

Kinjah said seeing Froome win the Tour was “a wonderful, wonderful feeling”

Although competitive cycling is not hugely popular in Kenya, a large number of fans gathered to watch and celebrate Froome’s victory in a bar in the wealthy Westlands suburb of Nairobi.

Speaking to the BBC, Kinjah said he initially thought Froome was “another young kid” from a wealthy family, before realising that he was a “poor white boy”.

“And soon when we started to be friends, I never charged his mother any money because Chris was quickly becoming one of us and he loved to be in the village with us,” he said.

“He was like one of us, our brother. He was just funny and happy, a white boy who accepted our village and ate our food.”
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After his victory, Froome said: “I’d like my performances here to help inspire a lot of youngsters, especially young Africans.”

“They have to believe they can get out of Africa to make it to European teams.”

By AGENCY REPORTER - Fri Jul 26,

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Kenya wins men’s, women’s team races at Bolder Boulder

Kenya wins men’s, women’s team races at Bolder Boulder

Isaac Mukundi won the Bolder Boulder 10-kilmeter race Monday as he led Kenya to the international team crown.

The women also captured the team title to give the country its second sweep at one of the nation’s largest road races.

The Kenyans also won both team titles in 2001.

Mukundi began to pull away late in the race and finished in 29 minutes, 12.14 seconds, edging Terefe Debela of Ethiopia. Team USA’s Diego Estrada finished third as the Americans had four finishers in the top 10 to push the Kenyans.

Amane Gobena of Ethiopia cruised to the women’s crown, finishing in 33:39.87. Miyuki Uehara of Japan was second, while Alisha Williams was the top American finisher in eighth.

There were around 51,000 runners registered for the race.

Former University of Nebraska at Kearney runner Tanner Fruit finished fifth in the Citizen’s Race. Other results of local runners were not available at the Hub’s press time.

By Associated Press |

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Seriki Davidwise's Quote 1

Seriki Davidwise's Quote 1

"The world is for great people, but great people aren’t for themselves, but for the world."

Quite importantly, our world is at the feet of her great people. Men and women, who are adored, revered and celebrated. They exist in their thousands across the globe.

The voice of one is the voice of countless thousands that echo their words and speeches and tell their acts on the internet, media, offices and private homes around the world..

Tiny gods, like shooting stars shot into the earth, these ones refused their lights from going out.

Great people they are. Great and mighty, wealthy, influential and powerful, they should all rise and never live for themselves alone but Rise up for the world!

By Seriki Davidwise.

Kenyan students win award in International Science and Engineering Fair in US

Kenyan students win award in International Science and Engineering Fair in US

The 2016 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair featured more than 1,700 young scientists selected from 419 affiliate fairs in 77 countries, regions and territories, including four from Kenya.
Kenyan students Vishal Vekaria and Mansi Apte, students at Shree Cutchi Leva Patel Samaj School (SCLPS) in Nairobi West, became the first Kenyan winners at the prestigious and competitive Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Phoenix, USA.
The two 15-year-olds brought home an award in the category of Environmental Engineering, sub-category Water Resource Management after emerging third in the category.
Their project was titled Acacia xanthlophloea characterisation and preservation techniques of sapwood (plant xylem) as a low-cost membrane for arid and semi-arid areas in Kenya. The project is focused on water resource management, seeking ways to deal with the lack of safe drinking water in rural and semi-arid areas. They used locally available resources to build a water purifier that is affordable.
The project is focused on water resource management, seeking ways to deal with the lack of safe drinking water in rural and semi-arid areas. They used locally available resources to build a water purifier that is affordable.
The duo also won the First Award of $1000 from the Qatar Foundation, Research and Development and got an honorable mention from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Kenya had two projects that were showcased at ISEF by another set of students from SCLPS School. The second was by Ramya Yanamandra and Rupal Rabadiya, who presented a project that helps with the detection of Salmonella enterica DT104 and Vibrio cholera O139 using polyclonal antibodies immobilized on polyaniline non-wires.
Simply put, they designed a biosensor that detects bacteria in food. With this, the students were looking for a way to detect the bacteria that causes food borne diseases in order to reduce food borne diseases. This project was inspired after watching the news and seeing the cholera outbreak in Kenya.
Han Jie (Austin) Wang, 18, of Vancouver, Canada, took first-place and the Gordon E. Moore Award taking home US$75,000 for developing microbial fuel cells (MFCs) that more efficiently convert organic waste into electricity.
“Intel congratulates this year’s winners and hopes that their work will inspire other young innovators to apply their curiosity and ingenuity to today’s global challenges,” said Rosalind Hudnell, vice president in Human Resources, director of Corporate Affairs at Intel Corporation, and president of the Intel Foundation.

7th Grade 13 year old Kenyan American boy who won Cool Science Award in Lowell

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.

The award is presented on a monthly basis to top winners, runner ups, and honorable mentions

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

Jalen Scott, the Student won international science award

Jalen Scott, an eight-grader whose research into elevated lead levels in the soil at some Baton Rouge schools secured him an invitation to compete in Africa, has returned from the Golden Climate International Environmental Project Olympiad in Nairobi, Kenya with the top prize for his grade level.

Scott, a student at Kenilworth Science and Technology Charter School in Baton Rouge and the only one from the United States selected to compete, was the junior division winner of the Wangari Maathai Grand Award, which is named for the Kenyan environmentalist who in 2004 became the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

“When they called my name as the winner, I got real nervous,” Scott said in a press release sent by the school on Thursday. “My legs started shaking, and I was afraid I couldn’t walk.”

But Scott, who was accompanied to Kenya by his father and science teacher, managed to make it to the stage to accept the grand award.”

“Jalen Scott’s accomplishments are nothing short of amazing and show the world that we are developing some of the best minds in science fields right here in Baton Rouge,” said Mayor-President Melvin L. “Kip” Holden in the press release. “I couldn’t be more proud that his innovative ideas not only benefit current students, but will also help him achieve his own dreams.”

Scott’s 2013 science fair project, which also got him published in an academic journal and allowed him to meet national educational and political leaders, was one of 135 entrants from 31 countries. Kenilworth science teacher Elkhan Akhundov entered Scott’s project, which competed against 24 other entrants from junior-high students.

As a seventh-grader, Scott and Desirae Gardner, then a sixth-grader at Kenilworth, produced similar projects studying soil at 11 local schools, using a hand-held X-ray spectrometer provided by LSU associate professor David Weindorf, a soils specialist with the LSU AgCenter. Scott found lead levels above U.S. Environmental Protection Agency screening limits at four of the schools. Gardner found elevated levels of arsenic at seven schools.