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2017 DStv Eutelsat Star Awards Lunched with Facebook Page

The 2017 DStv Eutelsat Star Awards competition has been launched with a bang after scooping a Better Satellite Award at the third annual Better Satellite World Awards gala dinner in London recently.

The award honours established companies along with disruptive innovators who make the world a more prosperous, healthier, better-educated, sustainable, and inclusive home for humankind. Drawing on six years of success, the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards is returning for a 7th edition. Students from secondary schools can now enter for the award by writing a creative essay or designing a poster based on the topic: “It’s sixty years since the first satellite, Sputnik, was launched, broadcasting a unique and easily captured ‘beep, beep, beep’ signal. Looking back at this historic moment, write an essay or design a poster depicting how satellites have launched humankind into the 21st Century and acted as a unifier.

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Selected from thousands of entries by a high-standard jury, the essay winner will be eligible for a once-in-a-lifetime trip for two to Paris and France, in the company of Eutelsat, and onwards to French Guiana to see a rocket launch into space. The poster winner will win a trip for two to South Africa, which includes a visit to the South African National Space Agency as well as exploration of several heritage sites as guests of MultiChoice Africa. The schools attended by the two winners will also receive a DStv installation, including a dish, TV, decoder, and free access to the DStv Education Package.

The DStv Eutelsat Star Award is open to all learners from secondary schools on the continent where MultiChoice Africa maintains operations. Entry forms can be obtained from any MultiChoice Resource Centre, the nearest MultiChoice office, or via dstvstarawards.. Entries are accepted in English, French, and Portuguese and will be judged on the basis of high-standard criteria of accuracy, creativity, originality, and innovation. For the first time, this year students are also invited to engage with the Awards community through a dedicated Facebook page.

The competition closes on 12 February 2018. Only entries submitted on the official entry form will be eligible. The overall winners will be announced at an award ceremony in March 2018.

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