BIH honours young innovators

Dr Budzani Tacheba.
Dr Budzani Tacheba.

As part of its quest to develop technology, Botswana Innovation Hub (BIH) last week honoured young people who participated in the national innovation competition.

Participants were tasked with developing and designing an innovative engineering solution that can be implemented to solve current mining problems in Botswana.

The competition was classed in two categories, National Biotech and CleanTech and the engineering and mining design.  Participants were supposed to come up with solutions to any challenge in the pipeline from mineral exploration, mining, mineral processing to use of mine effluents and waste.

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