Mount Of Olives College-Kakiri

ANNUAL MENTAL HEALTH PROJECT BOOT CAMP

HAPENNING NOW:
YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH PROJECT ANNUAL BOOT CAMP.
THEME: REFLECTING AND REIMAGINING: ADVANCING YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FOR A BRIGHTER TOMORROW.
Participating Schools and Mentor Champions :
1. Mount of Olives College Kakiri (Hosting School)
2. St. Charles Lwanga International
3. St. Mbaga’s College Nadangira
4. Balibaseka Secondary School.
Each Participating School has 8 Mentor Champions, 2 Focal Teachers plus 8 Youth Mental Champions.

Schools Debate Championships 2022

Mock emerged victorious in the Stanbic Bank National Schools championships, following a highly competitive finals held in Kampala. The team from Mock presented a detailed bank simulation project, which looked at how financial institutions can positively transform the societies where they operate. As the overall winners, The school won the Grand Prize of an all-expenses paid trip to South Africa and their school also won an amazing UGX 20 Million fully installed Solar system for class room blocks.

Google-sponsored private moon race delayed for the fourth time

The deadline for the Google Lunar X Prize has been pushed backed once again, from the end of 2017 to 31 March 2018. The prize offers $30 million to the first privately-funded venture that puts a spacecraft on the moon.

In order to win the money, competitors’ rovers will have to explore at least 500 metres of the moon’s surface and send back high-definition images and video. However, this new deadline came with additional “milestone prizes” which will let the companies win some money even if they are not entirely successful.

The Lunar Arrival Milestone prize offers $1.75 million to spacecraft that either orbit the moon or try landing. The Soft Landing Milestone Prize will award $3 million to any craft proven to successfully land on the surface. These new prizes aren’t a race; they’ll be split up among all teams which achieve the milestones by the end of March.

The original competition announced in 2007 offered $20 million to the first privately-funded company that reached the moon by 2012. Since then, the prize has been raised and the deadline has been extended three times.

Five teams remain in the game, having secured contracts to launch their moon landers: the Israeli company SpaceIL, Moon Express in the US, TeamIndus in India, HAKUTO in Japan, and Synergy Moon, an international group.