Malawi Institute of Tourism hosted an annual student’s social weekend on 1st July  2017. The event happened at the campus premises and apart from Students, the  event attracted most of Blantyre fun lovers. During this auspicious event, climax  of the program was the Miss MIT beauty contest which saw nine student girls  compete for the crown. The social weekend was themed MIT for Sustainable  tourism development in Malawi.

 The beauty contest started late around 8pm and students in the contest battled in  five categories namely talent, profession, celebrity, dinner and tradition. Out of  nine, the top five had Memory Mikana and Rosemary Chiwalo as losing finalists.  Caroline Phillips emerged second princess, Fahima Saidi first princess and the  winner Miss MIT 2017 emerged the youngest of them all, 19 year old Elkana  Chilongo who was very consistent throughout the contest.

During the talent category, she mesmerised the audience and drew memories of the movie Let it shine, as she performed Good to be home which is one of the tracks in the movie and did it to perfection