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World Space Week 2006 Report
World Space Week 2006 was celebrated at Adu Gyamfi Basic School at Sowutuom in the Ga north district of Accra on the 4-5 October with students from primary
to secondary levels. The speaker, Mr. Kofi Adarkwa Yiadom, advised the students to consider the World Space Week theme "Space for Saving Lives" to be their gateway to enter the Space Age. The second speaker,
Mr. Emanuel Ansong, advised the students to participate in a space essay competition and expose themselves to the international education community such as through UN educational programmes.
A poster exhibition was held on the 6-7 October at the same venue, with posters from European Space Agency, Mars Society, and the Young Astronauts. Mr.
Prince Opoku, a teacher of Adu Gyamfi Basic School, announced a competition being planned for World Space Week 2007 in Ghana and encouraged students participate by preparing drawings of rockets, astronauts, and
spacecraft.
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