{"id":610,"date":"2020-03-13T01:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/?p=610"},"modified":"2020-03-13T03:47:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T02:47:44","slug":"icad-commonwealth-creative-writing-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/13\/icad-commonwealth-creative-writing-award\/","title":{"rendered":"ICAD-Commonwealth Creative Writing Award; the Results!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>6 winners clinched 25 000 FCFA Each!<\/h4>\n<p>Climate change awareness subsists as a primordial prerequisite in climate actions. Lack of data, interest and youth participation in climate change endeavours accounts for this knowledge gap. In a bid to create a knowledge niche on climate change in Dschang, ICAD Enterprise launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/02\/icad-commonwealth-uds-creative-writing-award-1st-edition\/\">first edition of the ICAD<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/thecommonwealth.org\/\">Commonwealth<\/a> Creative Writing Competition. In consortium with the Commonwealth Club of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.univ-dschang.org\">University of Dschang<\/a>, this activity was perfectly timed to commemorate the 2020 edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thecommonwealth.org\/\">Commonwealth Day<\/a>, on 09th March 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAll You needed was to Think creatively, write&#8230; and boom! you bag home 25000FCFA, Very rare in our context\t\t\t<\/p>\n<footer>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite>Aisha Pendashi<\/cite><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=All+You+needed+was+to+Think+creatively%2C+write...+and+boom%21+you+bag+home+25000FCFA%2C+Very+rare+in+our+context+%E2%80%94+Aisha+Pendashi&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Ficadenterprise.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fadmin-ajax.php&amp;via=Ayeesha58595255\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTweet<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Memorable<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>Under the coordination of Tsemo Leonce Sandrine (Programme Officer, ICAD), Nsom Carlson Nsom (Chairperson of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thecommonwealth.org\/\">Commonwealth<\/a> Club, University of Dschang) and Nfor Celder (Cultural Affairs Officer, <a href=\"https:\/\/thecommonwealth.org\/\">Commonwealth<\/a> Club, University of Dschang), a call was launched to select 6 winners, based on the creativity of their texts, the originality and its relevance to the theme and subject matter. The competitors were grouped into 2 different categories (University students and Secondary schools). By the Deadline of 07th March 2020, a total of 22 texts were received, checked for plagiarism and blindly reviewed by an independent jury.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPrevious<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNext<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Jury<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr Tsague Willy: Vice President of the Cameroon Debate Association and former Chairperson of the Commonwealth Club of the University of Dschang;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mrs Nderengam Aminatu: PLEG, Poet and Secondary School Teacher with over 38 years of experience;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tsemo Leonce: ICAD Representative; and<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nsom Carlson: Commonwealth Club Representative.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Winners:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a rigorous, diligent and blind review, the following were declared winners:<\/p>\n<p>University category:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tse Valery (Best Prose)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banseka Rogobert (Best Poem)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nembo Ghislain (2nd Best Poem)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Secondary schools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kamwa Mokam Joele (Most Creative Mind)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Douada Bizou (Best Poem)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kendu Nadia (2nd Best Poem).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the end of the exercise, each of the winners above bagged home the sum of 25 000 FCFA and all is well that ends well.<\/p>\n<h2>Share This Post<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on facebook<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on linkedin<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on twitter<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on email<\/p>\n<h2>Subscribe To Our Newsletter<\/h2>\n<h3>Get updates and learn from the best<\/h3>\n<h2>More To Explore<\/h2>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/index.php\/membership-registration\/\">&#8230;&#8230;..<br \/>\nDo You Want To Join Us?<\/a><\/h4>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/index.php\/membership-registration\/\">drop us a line and keep in touch<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"#about\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tContact Us<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/index.php\/membership-registration\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"522\" height=\"503\" src=\"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/thumbs-up.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/thumbs-up.png 522w, https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/thumbs-up-300x289.png 300w, https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/thumbs-up-230x222.png 230w, https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/thumbs-up-350x337.png 350w, https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/thumbs-up-480x463.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Share This Post<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on facebook<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on linkedin<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on twitter<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on email<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 winners clinched 25 000 FCFA Each! 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In a bid to create a knowledge niche on climate change in Dschang, ICAD Enterprise launched the first edition of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icadenterprise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}