Master 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.
The event, an annual global entrepreneurial competition which took place virtually as a result of the COVID – 19 pandemic, had 55 teams from the USA and other countries as participants with Master Oseni winning the Scavenger Hunt Award out of the available eight awards.
According to the Programme Coordinator, Diamond Challenge, Mrs Rachel Strauss, for the winner to emerge in the challenge, which was established in 2012 by the University of Delaware, USA, to identify entrepreneurially talented high school students and teams with project ideas globally on issues that affect their generation, the finalists were assessed on their levels of critical thinking, creativity and leadership qualities.
She stressed that with the award, Master Oseni has 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 Oseni, one from Asia and 20 from other parts of the globe) as members.
In his remarks on the honours brought to the school, the Director, Caleb Group of Schools, Dr. Ola Adebogun, who commended the students for making him proud with their consistency of excellent performances in all competitions, West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) and Cambridge conducted examinations.
He attributed the achievements and enviable record of the school to God, the quality of staff and infrastructural facilities in the school.
Dr. Adebogun noted that the group of schools’ conformity to quality standards with the both Nigerian and British integrated curriculum and the various honours and awards have, no doubt, confirmed the group’s 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.
