Kids dabble in robotics in Zimbabwe : RoboFEST 2015 in pictures

We attended the RoboFEST 2015 edition which ran from the 31st of July to the 1st of August. Themed Agriculture in the 21st Century”, this year’s RoboFEST challenge was to simulate the planting and harvesting in agriculture using miniature robots assembled from a prepared toolkit. It is difficult to imagine that Zimbabwean school kids are making robots and learning electronics with so many adverse reports bedeviling the education sector.

Here is some of the automation that the teams participating at the RoboFEST challenge were making: