By: Hummu-Kulssum Abdulai
A team of three students from the Cape Coast Technical University are winners of the Founders Boot Camp held for students from Ghana’s tertiary institutions. They beat thirteen other teams to win the ultimate prize. Their winning innovation was from the use of plantain leaves to manufacture sanitary towels.
The trio will now represent Ghana and Africa in the yearly Tech Innovation Pitching Competition in Berlin, Germany in October.
The Cape Coast team is to face about fifty other teams from universities in Europe for prizes worth three million euros in the October event.
The Aachen University Tech Innovation pitching gives students with innovative ideas the opportunity to receive the required technical and financial support to start their own businesses.
The winning team said the dream to produce plant-based affordable sanitary towels for girls earned them the winning card.
The Head of the Entrepreneurship Center from the RWTH Aachen University, Mr. Julian Krauskopt said the ideas from the teams are to solve some problems in Ghana and they will provide the needed coaching and guidance to prepare them for the major competition in October.
The Executive Director of PAMEPI, an organisation with supporting women in technology at heart, Mr. Fuseini Yakubu is behind the collaboration with the team from Germany.
Four other runners-up will receive a four- week period of coaching from the Aachen University.
