AUN Students Fabricate Solar Ovens And Chicken tractors

AUN Students use Kenya technology fabricate solar ovens, chicken tractors for villagers. Some students of the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, have fabricated solar oven and chicken tractors for distribution to villagers residing in nearby communities.

According to a report on the institution’s website, AUN students taking CDV 107, a course taught by Professor Charles Reith, made the ovens using a design from a Kenyan refugee camp.

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“The solar ovens were fashioned from recycled cardboard, glue, masking tape, and aluminium foil,” the report stated.

“Each oven took about 45 minutes to make based on a design first developed in the 1990s at a refugee camp in Kenya.

“The team used one oven to cook a pot of noodles, which took about 10 minutes to be ready for sampling by Professor Reith and others.”

The report further stated that the students made chicken tractors from scrap materials.

“Two student teams also created chicken tractors from scrap metal and pieces of chicken wire that had been thrown away.

“Chicken tractors are screened-in boxes or portable cages used by organic farmers to prepare soil for planting; they confine the chicken in the tractor until it has eaten all the weeds, scratched the soil, and fertilized it with its guano.

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“This is one of many ways organic growers fertilize their farms without using harmful and expensive chemicals.” It was gathered that the oven and tractors will be handed over to the villagers during a trip in November. AUN has been actively involved in humanitarian activities in the North-East region.

The American University of Nigeria was founded in response to the need for a world-class university in sub-Saharan Africa.

The goal of AUN is to train the future leaders of Africa and to serve as both a stimulus and agent of economic development throughout the region.

To that end, all students, regardless of academic specialization, will receive high-level training in information technology, entrepreneurship and in arts and sciences, all of which are the key to future sustainable development. AUN is committed to providing the skills and the leadership essential to advancing the continent’s pressing social and economic challenges.

AUN also has several other auxiliary facilities around the campus. These include a modern Hotel, a University Club, an ICT Center, and a Printing Press.

The University recently opened an Agricultural Entrepreneurship School on a local farmstead near the campus.