[ 2021-02-23 ]

Mamfe Methodist Girls SHS win World Robotics and Coding Competition
A secondary school in Ghana has won the World
Robotics and Coding competition for the second
consecutive time.

The Methodist Girls Senior High School (MEGHIS)
won the competition by beating the Avenues FLL MG
Team from the Avenue World School in the United
States.

The two teams made it to the grand finale out of
5000 teams.

MEGHIS’ Robotic Stars using method K20 as its
coding key won after going through six competitive
stages of the final competition per a Graphic
report.

The competition, also known as CoderZ Juniors
League was powered by Intelik/Robogroup from the
USA and Israel.

This year’s edition held virtually was made up
of 12 regional groups from Africa, Europe, Asia,
North and South America.

The Operational challenge for the competition,
named BasketBot, is a robotics and coding
competition that allows participants to code
robots to draw balls from baskets into their
zones.

Participants were given a period of one week to
code and submit before the final competition.

A team from MEGHIS called on Executives of the
Ghana Education Service (GES) to officially share
the good news.

“Your achievement will go down into the archives
and your names and that of the school have been
written in gold for generations unborn to learn
from”.

“Keep your heads high and remain focused on your
studies as you have already demonstrated your
prowess to excel in academic pursuit beyond the
shores of Ghana.”

Source - museafrica.com

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