Rose Wekesa, a Kenyan sciences teacher, has broken the world record for the longest science lesson taught by an individual.
Wekesa, who is a teacher at St. Austin Academy in Lavington, began her world record journey on Tuesday. She taught the lessons at multimedia university, covering topics in both biology and chemistry.
She taught for 62 hours 33 minutes, shattering the record that was previously set by an Indian Teacher Kathiravan Pethi, who taught a science lesson for 50 hours in 2008.
Wekesa took breaks of 20 minutes in every 4 hours. The lesson was streamed via her YouTube channel and Facebook account at intervals of 12 hours.
The new world record will be ratified in 12 weeks, as Guinness World Record has to review the documentation process.
“I am doing this to encourage young students not to fear science subjects as everything in the world is based on Science. If we don’t encourage them to embrace science, we are going to have a problem in future,” the teacher said earlier.
According to her husband Victor Wekesa Wafula, she contacted Guinness World Records towards the end of last year in an attempt to break the record for the longest chemistry lesson. Unfortunately, the first application was rejected.
“Then she applied for the Science lesson in which she included Chemistry, biology and physics. So Science in itself is what caused her to be approved for this attempt,” he said.
The two have been married for 11 years and have three daughters.
Other rules that she was required to follow in her attempt is to have at least 10 students in her class, and had to actively participate in the lesson.
“The moment the number of students go below 10, the event is declared unsuccessful immediately, whether you upload the video later or not, ” Wafula said.
