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Published on 2024-03-19 05:42:43
The company specialized in education in science and technology in the Democratic Republic of Congo, named KOLESHA SARLU, organized on Saturday, March 16, at the Texaf Bilembo site, the first international competition called “FIRST LEGO LEAGUE” under the annual theme “MASTER PEACE”.
Several partners, including the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education, various sponsors, members of the jury, and the KOLESHA SARLU team, took part in this event.
Several partners, including the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education, various sponsors, members of the jury, and the KOLESHA SARLU team, took part in this event.
FIRST LEGO LEAGUE brought together young geniuses from schools in Kinshasa who presented their subscriptions. It brought together two teams, each with two subgroups, the first called “Explore”, composed of students aged 7-10 with the subgroups “Crocs and Royal Star”. The second team, “Challenge”, included students aged 11-17 with the subgroups “Bobies” and “Girls power”. These two teams were tasked with brainstorming, planning, building, and programming robots designed to meet humanitarian, scientific and technical challenges.
Art was celebrated, and the young teams were invited to bring creativity to their creations and artistic sharing worldwide.
To maintain these values, stimulate creativity and interest among the teams and parents, assessments were given by jury members to challenge the four groups and introduce them to the art of presenting a robotics project.
The top four teams qualified for the grand international final where they will present their projects to a panel of experts and received awards for creativity and innovation.
However, the team named Bobies received the trophy for the overall winners.
For the creator of the structure, Sandrine Tshiamala, these meetings represent their dedication to the youth of the Republic and pave the way for the project’s expansion to other territories of the DRC.
_The FIRST LEGO LEAGUE robotics competition is a shining example of our commitment and allows our children to compete with their peers from around the world. We want to provide Congolese children with digital skills, as digital is the future. Our education system currently lacks these basics. And we fight every day with ministers and schools to include coding and programming in the education system._
And she continued:
_“We would like it to be provincial, regional, and then national. The next edition will first be provincial and then national, reflecting our desire to expand our impact and strengthen our goals”_, said Sandrine Tshiamala, founder of KOLESHA SARLU and organizer of the event.
For engineer Chadrack Ezikola, this program instills essential values in the younger generations for approved technical and scientific futures and careers.
_This competition brings together young minds and robotics enthusiasts. The participation of young people in this challenge not only develops technical skills in building and programming robots, but they also learn essential values such as teamwork, mutual respect, and solving complex problems for many scientific and technical vocations among the Congolese youth._
It is worth noting that KOLESHA SARLU is an educational institution specializing in science and technology training in the DRC under its Play and Code Academy DRC branch, which provides workshops and practices on robotics and programming for children from 0 to 7 years old enrolled in its center and equips them with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics). It aims to expand its activities to several provinces of the DRC for inclusive training of every Congolese child through extracurricular workshops for the economic and technological development of the DRC.
*Monica Bubanji/CONGOPROFOND.NET*
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