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The Prempeh College champions, with Mr Peter Agyeman, the Robotics Team Tutor, seated in the middle
The Prempeh College champions, with Mr Peter Agyeman, the Robotics Team Tutor, seated in the middle

Prempeh College students win championship in Michigan

Students of Prempeh College in the Ashanti Region have won the 2016 edition of the Robofest World Championship in Michigan, United States of America (USA).

They beat competitors from top high schools in China, USA, Canada, India and other countries. 

Ghana’s outstanding team was awarded the prestigious Toyota Innovation Award, after their solution was adjudged to be the most innovative.

Their solution captured the excellent incorporation and deployment of sensors and top-notch programming skills.

Festival of competitions

Robofest is a festival of competitions and events with autonomous robots that encourage students to have fun while learning principles of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and Computer Science. Students design, construct and programme the robots. Any robotic kits are allowed in the construction of robots.

Prempeh College’s robot had unimaginable and breathtaking capabilities, autonomously navigating and manoeuvring 30’’ x 72’’ field while putting four golfs into the central ‘A’ hole to earn maximum points.

The Prempeh College team, coached by Mr Peter Agyeman, comprised William Kwabena Gyasi, Kwaku Effia Adu-Ampomah, Emmanuel Gyekye Ata-Penkra, Kelvin Campbell Agbodzah, Samuel Kow Painstil and Jeffrey Jefferson Akyea-Adu.

The school, founded in 1949 by the then Asantehene Sir Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II, is an all-boys boarding school in Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region.

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