Stanbic Bank is pleased to launch this new exciting national competition for secondary schools in Uganda to encourage secondary school students to sharpen their critical thinking, while enhancing problem-solving skills and fostering lifelong friendships amongst the competitors.
Education is one of our key focus areas for Stanbic Bank Corporate Social Investment focus areas. Because we recognize that its importance in stimulating faster economic growth. This national Schools competition is aimed at inspiring excellence among secondary students by creating a platform that can help them to develop positive attitudes, values and coping skills which subsequently prepares them for greater responsibilities in the future.
The youth today are faced with many challenges especially in the face of an increasingly complex world so we hope that this investment will develop skills through which the youth can apply their energies productively. The competition is also aimed at offering participants with a platform through which they can interact, share experiences having come from different parts of the country and appreciate their differences in terms of culture and tradition in addition enabling them get basic knowledge on basic money matter management.
The competition will involve approximately 3,000 students, representing an estimated 60 secondary schools selected from across all the Regions in Uganda. It will start at regions and winners will then compete in the national championship. We have put in place various prizes for the winning teams with the grand prize being a fully equipped school computer lab. We therefore encourage students in the selected schools to and all Ugandans to view the program on the different Channels of that will be telecasting the Championships.