NIMELSSA ESSAY COMPETITION 2020 FINALISTS.

The Nigerian Medical Laboratory Science Student Association (NIMELSSA), UNILAG chapter just concluded an essay competition, the first of its kind.
The essay captured the entire College of Medicine, University of Lagos with the topic, 'The role of health workers in preventing and containing the spread of a pandemic: corona virus as a case study.'
This essay topic was chosen to help medical students recognize their various roles, how they can directly or indirectly help during this global pandemic and ultimately prepare them in case another one occurs in the future. Collection of entries spanned a month: from 17th of June, 2020 to 17th of July, 2020.

We got the 39 participants and the entire college on fire ever since, but we had to calm them down with our seasoned judges from all the departments in the College of Medicine, University of Lagos (CMUL). We also had medical practitioners, professional writers/content creators with awesome profiles as our chief judges.
They all worked together and dedicated their time and energy to produce a very transparent and entirely awesome result.
Today is August 3rd, 2020 and like we promised, we are here to announce the three winners!
No lies, all the participants were wonderful, and they got our minds blown! But you know, there must always be a winner.
We're glad to announce to you the winners of the NIMELSSA essay competition 2020;

•The second runner up is Tewogbade Oluwatosin, a 500 level Medical Laboratory Science student who goes away with a cash price of three thousand naira (#3,000) and an article publication in the next NIMELSSA Scope Magazine.

•The first runner up is Bankole Olayinka, a 400 level Radiography student who goes away with a cash price of seven thousand naira (#7,000) and an article publication in the next NIMELSSA Scope Magazine.

•And the award winner is Adesina Oluwadamilola, a 500 level Medical Laboratory Science student who goes away with a cash price of ten thousand naira (#10,000) and an article publication in the next NIMELSSA Scope Magazine.

With that, we have come to the end of the essay competition! No doubt it was really an exciting time for us all with amazing reviews and feedbacks from our judges, NIMELSSAites even the general public .
Here’s a sneak peak into what they’re saying:
“It was great reading through. Each piece was interesting in its own way.” - Cynthia Nnadi (Judge, NIMELSSA Essay Competition)
“Throughout this holiday, I can boldly say we've had the best organization on essay, the publicity, the prize, the judges etc.” - Ogunkoya Oluwamuyiwa (Member, NIMELSSA Editorial Board)
“I appreciate NIMELSSA for its transparency and thank you for the great opportunity to participate.” - Bankole Olayinka (1st runner up, NIMELSSA Essay Competition)
We say a big thank you to our esteemed sponsors, our seasoned judges, participants, anticipaters, and everyone who's contributed to making this a huge success.

SEE YOU ALL NEXT YEAR!

Adetoro Tolulope
Member NIMELSSA EDITORIAL BOARD 19/20

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Congratulations to our winners!
3 August 2020 at 04:03
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