The Department of Geospatial and Space Technology, University of Nairobi held the Final 5th Year Project Presentation on  Wednesday  14 June, 2021. Students were given five minutes each, to orally defend their theses. This is a  requirement of the University in partial fulfillment of the award of Bachelor of Science in Geospatial Engineering. It is an examination where a panel of examiners interact with the students through listening, and question & answer basis for each of the students. There were three panels of examiners, and three groups of sixteen students for each panel.

The team commenced on the NaSPUoN project in October, holding the kick-off meeting on 6th October 2020. The team has been holding weekly meetings since then, except for the Christmas period (17th Dec to 5th Jan) and the end of semester examinations period (13th Feb to 28th Feb 2021). Since the beginning of the project, the meetings have been held virtually since the students had been working from home. However, from March the students had begun hands-on work in the laboratory at UoN.

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