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StandOut ISSUE 01 | APRIL 2018

In this issue: CAREER LAB LAB 1.0.1. Advice on how to make the best career advice. Tips from the best and most trusted professionals. 

NSMQ  2018 NSMQ 2018 is here! Ready?

INTERVIEW WITH A  TEAM LEADER A hangout with the team leader of the Archbishop Porter Girls SHS Robotics Team which represented Ghana. 

High Schools Society has a mission of creating a huge brand for networking students

ISSUE 01 | APRIL 2018

STANDOUT JOURNAL Editor in Chief  Kingsley Okyere Deputy Editor/Communications Director  Rita Appiah Senior Editors Kingsley Okyere & Rita Appiah Executive Art Director Michael Ampofo Columnists Alexander O. Asenso & Amy Fontinelle Contributors Alexander O. Asenso & Amy Fontinelle Chief Photography Editor RAM Studios Associate Art Director RAM Studios Research Lead Dominic Kalefe Research Associate Justice Appiah Designer Roland Arthur Project Manager Kwabena Baffour Awuah

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The editor-in-chief heads all the departments of the organization and is held accountable for delegating tasks to staff members and managing them.

IA hangout with the team leader of the Archbishop Porter Girls SHS Robotics Team which represented Ghana.

EDITOR'S REMARKS

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CAREER LAB 1. 0. 1. Advice on how to make the best career advice. Tips from the best and most trusted professionals.

INTERVIEW WITH A TEAM LEADER

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NSMQ REGIONALS NSMQ2018 is here!

EDITOR'S REMARKS We had a vision – to create the most stylish, innovative, authentic, conscious, inspiring student magazine/media in Africa. No small feat but one made easier by an extraordinary team of like-minded, passionate, thought leaders, style makers and rebels from all over to deliver inspiration and leadership and force you to keep asking the questions. So, what’s it all about? In a world full of imitation and replication, we wanted to do something different. Something extraordinary, something that would stand out, be authentic and take beyond the pages of a print magazine. -Kingsley Okyere Editor-In-Chief High School Magazine

THIS JOURNAL IS FOR YOU. THE GUYS WHO CHALLENGE THE STATUS QUO. WHO SHAKE THINGS UP. WHO ASK ‘WHY?’ -

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In the 2017 edition of StandOuts, compiled by High Schools Society, the Robotics Team of  Archbishop Porter Girls' Senior High School (APGSS) was selected as one of the most outstanding students who achieved great success in the year. In relation to that, the editorial team at High Schools Magazine, a subsidiary of High Schools Society  got up close with the leader of the team and their patrons. Enjoy the hangout!

1. Could you please tell us about yourself? My name is Valerie Wulmah Dakubo, a seventeen year old and a prond Northerner. I live in Accra, Korle Bu to be precise. I am a student of Archbishop Porter Girls' Senior High School offering General Science. I am from a family of doctors but I guess I am quite different since I am more into engineering. I love reading books, watching movies, specifically Korean series and I really like writing novels. I really dislike hypocrites, people who falsely accuse and play unnecessary pranks. My main aim is to be as successful as I can and also help many people. 2. Why Archbishop Porter Girls' Senior High School? Archbishop Porter Girls' Senior High School in my opinion is the best girls school in the country and can be compared to none in terms of discipline.

A Hangout with the Archbishop Porter Girls' Senior High School Robotics Club - Dominic Kalefe 3. Tell us about how you developed interest in robotics. I have always been fascinated by how things work and I have for the past years wanted to know more about machines especially how putting simple things together could help solve life problems. This is what ended me up in robotics. 4. What inspired you to join the robotics team of APGSS? When I was admitted to APGSS, I didn't know the school had a robotics team. It was after our first term in the school that selections were made based on our grades and I happened to be chosen into the team. The achievements of our predecessors and their demeanor made me want to be like them. They always had fun whiles working on a robot.

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interview with a team leader I believe robotics is very important to the future of this country. Ghana, as a developing county needs knowledge and skills in robotics to aid development. This can be accomplished by using complex machines in our industries.

WORDS BY VALERIE WULMAH DAKUBO

5. What is the name of you team? Turnix.

6. How did you end up becoming the overall leader of the team from your school that represented our country at the FIRST Global Robotics competition held last year in Washington DC?

9. What has been the greatest achievement of your team so far?

13. How successful was your team in the competition?

Being the best all-girls team out of

I would say it went well. Looking at

the total seven all-girls teams that

the teams that were present and

represented their respective

their different robots, I will say we did

countries at the FIRST Global

even better than we expected. We

Robotics Competition.

were 66th out of the total 163 teams that represented.

10. What is your team proud of? It was solely the decision of our

4. Was that your first ever major competition since you became the leader of the team? 1

patrons and coaches. I happened to

We are proud of representing Ghana

be chosen.

at the FIRST Global Robotics competition.

7. How do you balance your passion and school?

No, it wasn't. But that was our first

11. How important do you think robotics is to the future?

We (the team) usually meet during

international competition.

15. How did your mentors help you in the preparations towards the competition?

some time of preps and every

I believe robotics is very important to

Saturday during entertainment. In

the future of this country. Ghana, as

order to keep up with the rest, I try to

a developing county needs

learn as much as possible during

knowledge and skills in robotics to

They played their roles well. They

class hours. It hasn't been so easy

aid development. This can be

helped us with the design and the

though.

accomplished by using complex

programming of the robot.

machines in our industries.

8. How do you decide on your team roles? It depends solely on what the person is good at. When we initially joined the club, we were thought how to

12.You (your team) represented Ghana at the FIRST Global Robotics competition in Washington DC, how did your team feel about that?

program and build a robot. With time, members were assigned specific

We felt very happy and excited to see

roles based on their capabilities.

ourselves there.

16. What made your robots unique at the competition? Our design was simple, basic and accurate so we encountered little difficulties in controlling it.

17. How did your team come to a consensus on the design and why did you choose that design? We wanted something simple so we started by trying every design that came to mind. After trying few, we finally decided on this particular one because it seemed to be the best of all the designs we tried. It was able to do exactly what we wanted it to do as compared to the other ones. 18. What was your game strategy? The competition was about water purification with two alliances made up of three countries each. Balls of two colours, blue and orange were released from underneath of a bridge. The blue and orange balls represents water and pollutants respectively. The robot was suppose to pick as many orange and blue balls as possible and put them in the laboratory and reservoir respectively. At the end of the game, the robot was to either hang on a bar or be on the bridge and this was to be done in two minutes and thirty seconds. Our game plan was to use two minutes out of the time given to pick or collect the balls and deliver them to their respective places. We were able to make the robot hang on the bar before about 15 seconds to game over. 19. Explain how each mechanism worked.

22. How was your coach involved in the whole process?

For picking the balls, the robot had

He was helpful in all aspects. He

rollers which two the orange and blue

continued to encourage us to do

balls into two different

more.

compartments. It was made up of two wheels which could spin clockwise and anticlockwise and

26. Among GSTS, St John's School and St  Mary's Boys Senior High School, which boys' school would you choose and why? GSTS because they're good in academics and sports.

23. What projects are you (your team) working on presently?

were joined by an elastic string. As

27. What are your top five schools in Ghana?

the robots moved forward, the rollers

Currently, the team is preparing for

moved ad sucked the balls into their

the Robofest competition which is

Archbishop Porter Girls' Senior High

respective compartments. Once the

going to be like a preliminary

Sch

robot is at the laboratory or reservoir,

competition to select teams that will

Presbyterian Boys' Senior High Sch,

the rollers are made to move in the

be representing Ghana at the next

Legon

opposite direction to force the balls

World Robotics Olympiad.

Prempeh College

out. In order to hang the robot, we built a sliding bar which could be raised to hold onto a bar and raised

Saint Augustine's College

24. Where would you want to see yourself in the next ten years?

the robot off the ground. In the next ten years, I would like to

20. Good. What was the biggest challenge for your team? How did you manage to overcome them?

be working in any big engineering

Aburi Girls' Senior High Sch.

28. In your opinion, would you say APGSS's robotics team is the best in the country?

based organization or company like NASA, STEM and Hansom Robotics.

Yes, I strongly believe so.

At the same time, I would like to start Our biggest problem was having to

up an organization which will target

work with teams from countries that

training more to patronize science

neither speak nor understand English.

specifically robotics.

In order to work with them fr a game plan, we used signs and signals and sometimes interpretors spoke for them.

21. Would you say your design worked perfectly for you at the competition?

29. Which university do you see yourself in and which program? University of Tokyo, Japan. I would like to offer mechanical engineering.

25. If you could meet anyone in the future, whether dead or alive, who would it be and why?

30. What do you have to tell your young ones like you?

I would like to meet Saint Theresa

Follow your passion and be yourself.

because she was very charitable and

Always remember that your parents

loving.

want the best for you so always pay heed to their words.

It did not work perfectly, but we were able to solve the problem that was on board and even before game over.

31. WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO TELL GHANAIANS AND STAKEHOLDERS IN THE ROBOTICS INDUSTRY? I WOULD LIKE TO APPEAL TO STAKEHOLDERS IN THE INDUSTRY TO FUND AND SUPPORT ROBOTIC TEAMS AND ROBOTIC COMPETITIONS IN THE COUNTRY. IT WILL HELP US TO PERFORM BETTER ON INTERNATIONAL STAGES AND WILL ALSO HELP GHANA AS A WHOLE.

THE TIME IS NOW! BY ALEXANDER O. ASENSO Have you noticed how fast the time is moving? Have you noticed how fast you are growing? Have you noticed the rate at which things around you are changing? What does it tell you? What does it mean to you? It is the break of a new day. It is the beginning of a new era. It is the start of a new chapter. A chapter that cannot sit and wait while you put yourself together. It is an era where things are not given to you based on your beauty, weight, height and shape but by your works. So how long are you going to stay or sit down and allow things unfold? You've seen children try to be creative and innovative but you sit and admire. You've seen technology improve and being updated every minute and you say you have nothing to worry. ARE YOU SERIOUS?

You purposed in your heart to do more work and achieve the things you so desire but you never get of of your room. You are always in your bed watching the actions of others who are making millions out of your watching them. Why don't you wake up and start doing the things you said you would do? Why don't you rise up and start practicing your music notes? You need to start writing those books in your head. You need to start painting those figures you see in your mind. You need to start speaking the things you have been practicing. Why do you expect an opportunity when you can create one for yourself?

IT'S ABOUT TIME YOU WOKE UP. IT'S ABOUT TIME YOU REALIZED THE DAYS, HOURS AND MINUTES ARE RUNNING FASTER THAN THE FASTEST HORSE. IT IS TIME TO GET OUT OF YOUR SKIN AND SHOW THE WORLD WHAT YOU ARE MADE OF. IT IS TIME TO SHOW THAT INDEED YOU ARE THE GREATEST SALESMAN THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN. IT IS TIME!!! GET UP! RISE UP! RECLINE NO MORE! A LITTLE SLEEP, A LITTLE SLUMBER AND POVERTY WILL STRIKE LIKE A THIEF. DON'T ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN. YOU HAVE MORE IN YOU.

YOU ARE BORN GREAT!!!

3 FINANCIAL TIPS FOR YOUNG ADULTS BY AMY FONTINELLE Unfortunately, personal finance has not yet become a required subject in high school or college, so you might be fairly clueless about how to manage your money when you're out in the real world for the first time.

YOU DON'T NEED ANY FANCY DEGREES OR SPECIAL BACKGROUND TO BECOME AN EXPERT AT MANAGING YOUR FINANCES

To help you get started, we'll take a look at three of the most important things to understand about money if you want to live a comfortable and prosperous life

Just as you headed off to kindergarten with your parents' hope to prepare you for success in a world that seemed eons away, you need to prepare for your retirement well in advance.

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If you're lucky, your

parents taught you this skill when you were a kid. If not, keep in mind that the sooner you learn the fine art of delaying gratification, the sooner you'll find it easy to keep your finances in order. Although you can effortlessly purchase an item on credit the minute you want it, it's better to wait until you've actually saved up the money. Do you really want to pay interest on a pair of jeans or a box of cereal?

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Instead of relying on others for advice, take charge and

read a few basic books on personal finance. Once you're armed with personal finance knowledge, don't let anyone catch you off guard - whether it's a significant other that slowly siphons your bank account or friends who want you to go out and blow tons of money with them every weekend. Understanding how money works is the first step toward making your money work for you.

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Once you've gone through a few personal finance books,

you'll realize how important it is to make sure your expenses aren't exceeding your income. The best way to do this is by budgeting. Once you see how your morning java adds up over the course of a month, you'll realize that making small, manageable changes in your everyday expenses can have just as big of an impact on your financial situation as getting a raise.

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