Team South Africa brought home gold at the First Global Challenge held at the Peace and Friendship Stadium in Athens, Greece.
Four of the five South African winners are from schools around Pretoria.
Athens hosted the event, which saw students gathered from more than 190 countries around the world. The event aims to inspire and promote engagement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics among young innovators.
The Dr Mae Jemison Award for International Unity at the 2024 First Global Challenge was awarded to the South African Springbots, a team that demonstrated exceptional collaboration, breaking down cultural and international barriers to foster unity and cooperation among the participants.
The First Global Challenge is an Olympics-style, international robotics competition that takes place in a different country each year. First Global invites each nation to send a team to build and program a robot to compete.
Teams work together to complete tasks in a game, themed around one of the greatest challenges facing our planet, including the 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering, in an effort to foster understanding and cooperation among the youth of the world as they use their abilities to solve the world’s problems.
The South African team winners are Jared Reddy (mentor), Mukondi Sinugo, 17, Keletso Nkuna, 16, Katiso Mallane, 17, Amahle-Amambo Mkhize, 17, Chaydon Weldschidt, 17 and Roxanne Reddy (mentor).
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