The 1963 year group of the Old Students’ Association of Achimota Senior High School (AKORAS) has inaugurated projects worth GH¢250,000 for their alma mater.
The project included the renovation and refurbishment of the old science laboratory into an ultra-modern audio visual hall, rehabilitation and construction of new public places of convenience for staff and students, installation of a number of water reservoirs to serve the science laboratory.
Other projects were landscaping and paved driveways, walkways and parking areas to make the science complex of the school look appealing, a generator set, gas cages and rain water harvesting systems.
At the dedication and inauguration ceremony in Accra on Thursday, the President of the 1963 year group, Madam Joyce Aryee, said the projects were chosen by the year group to provide the school with an Advanced Science Complex to enhance the school’s training in science and technology.
The inauguration of the projects was in line with the group’s 50th anniversary which would be climaxed with the 86th Founders Day durbar on Saturday, March 2, 2013.
The golden jubilee of the group is being observed on the theme “Repositioning Science at Achimota School for Ghana’s Competitiveness in the 21st” century.
“We chose to develop a vision for an Advanced Science Complex to support the teaching and learning of science in order to make the school contemporary and globally competitive in science at the school” she said.
She added that the theme was chosen to reflect the changing role of science in modern society and to contribute to the strengthening of the teaching and learning of science in order to make the school live up to that expectation.
On behalf of the school, the Headmistress, Mrs Beatrice Adom, expressed her gratitude to the group for the projects and said the would serve a very useful purpose.
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