Mazingira Quiz Challenge

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    Bomb and Colour as curtains come down on Mazingira quiz  Challenge  2011.

The day was 4th November 2011, that this years' mazingira quiz challenge competition takes place followed by a tree planting session at oloolua forest.Eight universities congegated at KICC-Lenana hall to outsmart each others on 'who knows our environment better?' session that started at 9am and ended 8.30 pm wth prof.Kungu grazing the award ceremony and Nigel Hunter opening this year's competition.

It could have not been any better than it was by hosting of the best universities in the country with brilliant hstudents juggling their minds to answer  questions that were pooled by environment experts from areas like Wetlands. Forestry ,Climate change ,Policy and Wildlife .Among the universities that participated are;Kenyatta University ,University of Nairobi ,African Nazareen University ,Great lakes University ,Maseno university ,Masinde Muliro University  and United States International  University .

The most intersting part came when the defending champions Kenyatta University were eliminated at the first round living room for many questions and  opening the competitiotn to any university to win. The suprise competitor and new comer Masinde Muliro put up a brilliant show taking on competatitors with bravelry  eliminating many huniversities on the way and making it to the finals .

The show that attracted about 200 students, go more interesting with great displays,ethusiasm ,excitement and anxiety filling the room as three universities competed in the finals which was represnted by last year's finalist;university of Nairobi, Masinde muliro and Great lakes universities .After a gruelling mind competition ,  University of Nairobi won the competition followed by Masinde Muliro university and Great lakes University  respectively.

The competition was though  not only based on quizes but also on other areas of environment,Kababrak university won the category of  environmental innovations  innovations while masinde muliro won the category of Mazingira art and Kenyatta university won the essay category.With music, colour and excitemnet,this year's mazingira challenge was the best it ever was. With cash prizes given to winners, phones and other awards,it could not be any better for participants as they danced all they way to a night with music presentations made from one of the best bands in Nairobi -269 band-The competition was sponsored by Tecno phone ltd, Cocacola and major sponsor being UNDP. We are all looking forward to next year's competition.

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