Basseterre, St. Kitts, September 12th , 2020 (ZIZ News):The First Global Challenge continues for the St. Kitts-Nevis Robotics Association as they completed two challenges titled “School’s in Session” and “Mother Tongue”.
Team Captain for St. Kitts-Nevis Robotics Association, Sanjiv Suresh outlined the requirements for the challenges.
“Sharing is caring and that’s what the next two challenges have taught us, with the first one, challenge number 20, School’s in Session we had to teach or share some of the news skill sets that we would have learnt throughout the First Global challenge this far and some of our team mates gave some really interesting response like they said they learnt analytical skills, they learnt how to be a team player an engineer and so on,” he continued, challenge number 21 which is called Mother Tongue where we had to share some of our locally said idioms or tongue twisters in St. Kitts and Nevis and this was a really really interesting challenge.”
He also explained how these challenges relate to STEAM or STEM.
“We are teaching the others how we learn certain new skill sets and some of the skill sets we would have learnt is engineering, technological skills and so on and these all fall under STEAM or STEM and also along with that we are also teaching our own culture and how we are in St. Kitts and Nevis to the world and that’s a great thing that we are doing,” he said.
The First Global Challenge spans 13 weeks in total between 27th June and 25th September and features interactive tasks and training sessions.
The challenge is guided by the theme ‘Connecting Communities.’
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Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 21, 2020 (ZIZ News): The Coronavirus pandemic has changed the way things are done globally, and this has been no exception for the students that make up the St. Kitts robotics association.
As the team participates in the First Global Competition, they were challenged to outline what they have done as it relates to STEM, which is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
ZIZ News spoke with team member Kayla Mallalieu who participated in online classes offered by her school. She made a comparison between that experience and being a part of the First Global Challenge which has gone virtual for the first time.
“It was easy for me to adapt to the change because I had exposure from doing online classes. Just as school it was very different because of the environment changed and the distraction and everything but you adapt to it and its pretty normal because that’s the normal way now,” she said.
Nicholas Powell who is the youngest team member said his quarantine time was spent building a go-cart. He outlined how this is related to the engineering aspect of STEM.
“For the engineering part, well the part where you build this and that, the way you have to align the shafts with the wheels and everything to get the breaks and gas working and everything connected to the engine because it will be a one engine go cart. That’s for the meantime and then later on we will get another engine for the second wheel,” he said.
Powell said it has been a great experience to participate in the online version of the First Global Challenge.
He said, “Well it’s good so far. Interesting, even though we have corona right now, it is good to see that they are actually able to still do it. Maybe not building a robot or in person with everybody, but at least being able to cooperate with people still, having fun, making bloopers.”
This is the 4th year St. Kitts and Nevis has participated in the First Global Challenge which has taken an online format for the first time.
The challenge is guided by the theme ‘Connecting Communities’ and will span 13 weeks, ending on September 25th.
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