Local team wins national competition
A local robotics team from the Greater Tzaneen Science Centre has been recently crowned champions at the Techno Youth Competition in Johannesburg, UNISA Florida Campus.
The Greater Tzaneen Science Centre has been crowned robotics champions at the Techno Youth Competition at Johannesburg,UNISA Florida Campus recently.
The five local learners won the challenge after they outshined and outsmart their contenders from other provinces in three categories, robot design, robot game and teamwork.
The project was initiated by the SouthAfrican Agency for Science and Technology Advancement in partnership with UNISA.
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The local robotics team was established by local entrepreneur Peter Maleta, the Founder of Greater Tzaneen Community Foundation (GTCF) in 2017.
Maleta has managed to produce other teams within the province as far as Burgersfort.
In 2019 the foundation invited an American robotics team, Quad X 6299, which came to teach the local learners through an initiative called the First Tech Challenge.
The team from Texas taught the youngsters about hardware, software and marketing. Meanwhile this year Maleta and his team will be moving around the whole province teaching learners about this fourth industrial revolution field.
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“I’m happy that our team won a national competition for the first time and I believe that there are more wins pending.
“I’m also glad now that in Tzaneen people are starting to embrace robotics,” he said.
In October the GTCF will be hosting the First LEGO League provincial competition in Tzaneen and he also calls for more support from schools, government and local businesses.
