Toluwalase Oseni of Caleb British International School, Lekki, Lagos State, has been declared as the winner of the 2020 World Scavenger Hunt Award at the recently concluded competition.
In a statement on Wednesday, the school authority said the event, an annual global entrepreneurial competition, which took place virtually on Zoom Platform as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic had 55 teams from the USA and other countries as participants with Master Toluwalase Oseni winning the Scavenger Hunt Award out of the eight awards available.
While declaring the representative of Caleb British International School, Lekki, Lagos, as the winner of the Scavenger Hunt Award, the Programme Coordinator, Diamond Challenge, Mrs Rachel Strauss, noted that each of the finalists were assessed on their level of critical thinking, creativity and leadership qualities.
The programme coordinator further explained that prior to the emergence of the winners in the eight award categories, all the finalists went through a 4-week special e-learning training by some upwardly mobile entrepreneurs from around the world in order to be exposed to different skills to succeed as entrepreneurs before the submission of their pitch deck and video presentation of their ideas to the judges.
She stressed that with the award, Master Toluwalase Oseni had been appointed into the carefully selected 22 – SAB ( Students Advisory Board) of the Horn Entrepreneur Department of the University of Delaware, USA, which has 22 high school students ( one from Africa – Master Toluwalase Oseni, one from Asia and 20 from other parts of the globe) as members.
In his remarks on the honour brought to the school, the Director, Caleb Group of Schools, Dr. Ola Adebogun, said the school felt proud.
He noted that the school’s quality had confirmed its core objective of ensuring the production of accomplished and ambitious young boys and girls of proven integrity who are ready to make significant contributions to national growth.
