President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged the youth to take advantage of opportunites available to improve their innovation skills.
He spoke on Wednesday as he presented awards to winners in the President's Award-Kenya Gold programme.
President's Award-Kenya is a self-development programme for young people, aimed at equipping them with positive life skills to enable them make a difference.
About 1,601 students drawn from universities, colleges, secondary schools, correctional institutions, community-based institutions and church groups attended the award ceremony.
Uhuru lauded the innovation of five students from Kisumu Girls High School who invented a mobile application used to end female genital mutilation.
The five girls from Kisumu girls emerged winners in the Continental Award ceremony which was held in Abuja Nigeria early this year.
The President also acknowledged Roy Arera’s innovation that saw him win International Engineering Award for inventing smart gloves that converts sign language movements into audio speech.
The President urged the youth to be role models and good ambassadors as they continue with their studies and to avoid what will not add value to them.
There are currently over 40, 000 young people participating in the President's Award, in over 750 schools, universities, middle level colleges, youth groups and rehabilitation centers across the country. President Kenyatta is the Patron of the Award-Kenya scheme.
The President's Award-Kenya is a member of the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Association, which oversees the Award Programme for young people in over one hundred and twenty countries. The Kenya scheme targets youth between 14 years and 24 years across the country.
