WORLD STANDARDS DAY 2006 - ESSAY COMPETITION

Winner of the World Standards Day Essay competion (Secondary Schools) - Onkabetse Monamati of Shashe River School.

Botswana Bureau of Standards (BOBS) used the World Standards Day theme in its campaign to raise awareness of standards among secondary and tertiary students. BOBS invited secondary school students and tertiary institutions students to participate in an essay competition to commemorate World Standards Day.

The title of the essay was "Standards: Handy tools to empower young entrepreneurs to prosper business."

The competition was advertised in the local newspapers, though the response was not very good, the essays, which were received, were marked and the winners of the two categories are as follows: