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Kenyan teacher completes Guinness World Record attempt

Rose is required to submit all the evidence to the Guinness World Record for verification.

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by AJUMA MILLICENT

News16 February 2024 - 08:47
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In Summary


  • She covered topics in both Chemistry and Biology during the allocated time including the periodic table.
  • It was scheduled to take place in 60 hours but the science teacher completed the record at 62 hours and 33 minutes.
Rose Tata Wekesa holds up a workbook she prepared for the Longest Science Lesson.

Rose Tata Wekesa, a teacher at St Augustine Academy has completed her attempt at breaking a Guinness World Record of the longest Science lesson taught by an individual.

The lesson took place at the Multimedia University of Kenya and Wekesa has been teaching since Tuesday.

It was scheduled to take place in 60 hours but the science teacher completed the record at 62 hours and 33 minutes.

The dedicated teacher taught her students for more than 60 hours, taking breaks of 20 minutes every four hours.

She covered topics in both Chemistry and Biology during the allocated time including the periodic table.

The lessons were streamed live on Tata Wekesa's YouTube channel at intervals of 12 hours.

"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," Wekesa had stated earlier. 

The teacher, after completing the attempt is now required to submit all the evidence to the Guinness World Record for verification.

Once the record attempt is verified to have been conducted in line with the Guinness World Record guidelines, she will be recognised and her name placed in the Book of World Records.

The approval procedure can take up to 12 weeks while the documentation is reviewed, according to Guinness World Records.

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