Source: Ghana News Agency.
Image source: Mikrobot Academy
Ghana has emerged champions at the just-ended 2026 Robofest World Championships held in Michigan, United States of America.
The young Ghanaian innovators, who represented the country, defeated 26 teams from 19 countries to secure the historic robotics victory.
They outperformed competitors from China, Taiwan, Canada, Mexico, the United States, Hong Kong, Greece, Macau, South Korea, among others.
“This remarkable achievement is a testament to how a dedicated group of engineers in Ghana is grooming the next generation of problem-solvers through robotics, engineering and hands-on innovation,” Dr Michael Wilson, a Research Scientist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research–Institute for Scientific and Technological Information (CSIR-INSTI), said in a statement copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra.
The Ghana Junior Team was represented by Faiz Sornyiina Abdul-Wahab, Tiana Lilian Naa-Chardey Taylor, Israel Yeboah Awuah, Inaaya Khan, and Aalia Mehreen, all from Mikrobot Academy.
Their participation in the competition was made possible with support from the Ghana Robotics Academy Foundation (GRAF), Brownstone Construction, the Ghana AI Research Network (GAIRN), CSIR-INSTI, and the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Lab (RAIL).
Mikrobot Academy is a private robotics and STEM club focused on nurturing and sustaining young learners’ interest in STEM-related careers aligned with the demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
The academy complements traditional classroom learning with apprenticeship-based, hands-on engineering experiences built around miniaturised real-world problems.
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