Nigeria To Be Well Represented At The Next Robotics Olympics

Seven Senior Secondary students from public and private secondary schools in Lagos State have been chosen to represent Nigeria in the FIRST Global Robots Olympic (GRO) in Washington DC.

The competition is commissioned to galvanise the youths to play a leading role in future at solving world problems. 

The students selected to represent Nigeria are SS2 students from New Era Girls Secondary School, Oxbridge College and Dansol High School, Lagos, within the age bracket of 15 to 18 years. Tawakalitu Giwa, 15, Omotayo Oluwaseun, 15, both from New Era Girls Secondary School; Agoro Oluwalase, 16, from Oxbridge College; Adegba Tetisimigbe, 15 and Fahad Ayodele, 15, both from Dansol High School.

Mrs Remi Willoughby, Education Consultant, said that Roboglobal Educational Consulting and Alofos Science and Technology Foundation would manage the competition for FIRST GRO.