By: Kweku Baffoe-Bonnie
“There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.”
– Daniel H. Wilson
We were introduced to the Robotics session yesterday and we were separated into different groups. I was put into group 8. There were four members in my group including me and one mentor. She is Vanessa. Vanessa really gave us motivation and guidance when we were given our first task of building the robot.
“The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.” – Mike May
Each group was given a set of parts to build the robot. The parts were actually LEGO and we were given 20 minutes to join those parts to create a robot called the EV3 robot. We finished in time to test it out and it worked flawlessly. Everybody in the group was very proud and enthusiastic about what we had accomplished. We then went into our coaching groups and discussed the whole experience.
“Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.” – J. J. Abrams
Students assembling EV3 robot
The Ashesi Innovation Experience (AIX) 