22 Aug FIRST Global Challenge Team Seychelles presents tidal energy project

The ten-member Team Seychelles who are partaking in this year’s virtual FIRST Global Challenge, yesterday presented to a panel of professional stakeholders their project for the solutions challenge.

The global competition, which this year has a record 175 participating countries, was officially launched virtually on June 27, with a series of mini challenges for participants to complete within specified timeframes, for which they are awarded points.

With the difficult challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s challenges is focused on the critical answers and practical solutions offered by Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM), to solve certain problems and counter the effects of the problems youth and their communities continue to face around the world.