UG engineering students clinch $1m science fair prize

The winning team (Visit Guyana photo)

Team Ultimatus Electricus, a group of undergraduate engineering students from the University of Guyana has been declared the winner of the inaugural million-dollar National Science Fair Competition.

 The National Science Fair Competition and Expo was hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport over the weekend at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre. Thirty projects from categories such as Energy, the Environment, Agriculture, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Housing and water from youth groups across Guyana were on display and competing to win $1 million.