Seven Nigerian young students have been selected to represent the country at the FIRST Global Robot Olympics slated to hold in Washington DC, USA.

The students; Ayomide Adetunji, Oluwateisimi Adegbamigbe, Umar Ayodeji Fahad, Omotayo Oluwaseun, Toluwalase Agoro, Tawakalitu Giwa and Adeniji Talabi were selected from secondary schools within Lagos. They will be competing with students from 149 countries.

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Global, Founded by philanthropic inventor, Dean Kamen, is an Olympics-style robotics event that drives home the importance of obtaining the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics skills needed by young people to overcome the greatest challenges facing our world now and in future.

According to Mrs. Remi Willoughby, the coordinator of the FIRST Global project in Nigeria who lamented the increasing deficit in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in the Nation’s educational system called on the government bridge this gap by looking at ways to encourage students in secondary and tertiary institutions to venture into these courses.

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