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Published on 2024-03-19 05:19:07
The company specializing in science and technology education in the Democratic Republic of Congo, known as 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.
FIRST LEGO LEAGUE brought together young geniuses from schools in Kinshasa who presented their subscription. It brought together two teams, each with two subgroups, the first called “Explore”, composed of schoolchildren 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 had the mission to identify, plan, build, and program robots designed to meet humanitarian, scientific, and technical challenges.
Art was honored and the young teams were invited to bring creativity to their creations and artistic sharing around the world.
In order to maintain these values, stimulate the creativity and interest of the teams and parents, evaluations were provided by members of the jury with the aim of challenging the four groups and introducing them to the art of presenting a robotics project.
The four best teams qualified for the grand international finale where they will be able to present their projects to a jury of experts and received awards for creativity and innovation.
However, the team called Bobies received the trophy for the grand winners.
For the founder of the organization, Sandrine Tshiamala, these meetings represent their dedication to the youth of the Republic and open the way for the project to expand to other territories in the DRC.
_The robotics competition FIRST LEGO LEAGUE is a shining example of our commitment and allows our children to compete with their peers from around the world. We want to give skills to Congolese children, skills in digital technology, since digital technology is the future. Our education system at the moment does not have these foundations. And we fight every day with ministers and schools to include coding and programming in the education system. “_
And to continue:
_”We would like it to also be provincial, regional and then national. The next edition will first be provincial and then national, reflecting our desire to broaden our impact and strengthen our goals”_, said Sandrine Tshiamala, founder of KOLESHA SARLU and initiator of the event.
For engineer Chadrack Ezikola, this program instills essential values in young 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 should be noted that KOLESHA SARLU is an educational organization 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 aged 0-7 enrolled in its center and equips them with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics). Its aim is to expand its activities in several provinces of the DRC for the 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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