10 Sep Aburi Girls’ SHS Represents Ghana At The 2021 FIRST Global Challenge

Ghana is part of over 160 countries participating in the 2021 FIRST Global Challenge — the fifth iteration of the global Olympics-style robotics event. This year’s theme, “Discover & Recover,” focuses on overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic by discovering opportunities for innovative recovery. From social projects to miniature satellites to robot design, teenagers from around the world are required to develop solutions to problems the COVID-19 pandemic has presented.

Twelve (12) students from the Aburi Girls’ Senior High School in the Eastern region are representing Ghana this year. The all-girls team is part of this virtual season which began on 27th June 2021 and will end on 28th September 2021. There are three main components which are a Solutions challenge, a CubeSat challenge and a Robotics challenge.