Good month for Zimbabwe education

The Herald

In North America, the Zimbabwean flag also flew high.

A team of five high school students, namely Bennedictus Chingiodza (St George’s), Tamuda Chimhanda (St Ignatius), Danai Hakata (Tynwald High School), Gabriel Matemba (Harare High) and Letticia Vanganayi (Harare High) went to the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge in Mexico.

Also known as the “Olympics” of Robotics, the competition is an annual robotics challenge where high school students converge to compete and test their acumen against global peers.

The team which was representing Zimbabwe won five out of eight games and came fifth in Africa. Tadzoka Pswarayi who travelled with the Zimbabwean team as its manager said Zimbabwe left a mark to be remembered at the global stage.

“Teams were placed into alliances and each alliance had three teams (countries). The game field stimulated a plant using green energy. There was solar, a wind turbine and a combustion plant. The object was for the players to power the plant by delivering solar panels, turning the wind turbine and powering the reaction plant,” Pswarayi said.

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