DAKAR, Senegal — One robot slammed into
some blocks and nearly fell to the floor.
Another sideswiped a wall. Yet another spun
in dizzying circles.
So when the robot built by students from an
all-girls school finally navigated the twists of
the maze — flawlessly rounding every corner
and touching every required flag — the
crowd went nuts.
The girls were among students from 25
schools who gathered in Dakar to compete in
the second annual Pan-African Robotics
Competition.
For five days, in a city where horse and cart
are still a fixture on the many unpaved
roads, boys and girls from sixth grade to high
school hunched over laptops and tablets at a
camp, entering code to guide their small blue
robots through a labyrinth meant to test
their skills in a competition on the final day.
The event was organized by Sidy Ndao, a
Senegalese-born engineering professor at the
University of Nebraska -Lincoln, who is on a
mission to help further science, technology,
engineering and math education, known as
STEM skills, in West Africa.
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