GREAT HEIGHTS ACADEMY EMERGED CHAMPIONS AT ROBOTICS AND AI GPT TECH CHALLENGE IN ABUJA
In a bid to provide platform to Nigerian students to promote their interest in science and technology and granting them the opportunities to become critical thinkers and solution providers in an ICT inclined world, Great Heights Academy emerged the overall winners in the Annual Afrelib Academy Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for GPT Tech Challenge.
The challenge is organized to empower young learners between the ages of 10 and 18 with the knowledge and skills to navigate through the cutting-edge world of AI Technology.
The participants across 10 schools were charged with the task of designing and producing solutions for real-life issues across education, agriculture, healthcare and other fields of human endeavor.
The winning school, Great Heights Academy, Kado, Abuja, won a cash prize of one million naira with their project and other grand prizes.
Rahama Musa Yusuf, who was the team leader of the contest, and whose project caught the fancy of everyone, along with her team members, constructed a Farm Intruder Alert System.
According to her, the device works with an alarm system that goes off immediately it senses any intrusion in the farm. A camera is installed to take a picture of the farm intruder, thereby sending an SMS to the owner of the farm.
She added that having such device by farm owners will curtail the rate of killing on the farm as Global Terrorism Index has revealed that over 2000 farmers have been killed on their farms in Nigeria and the number keeps increasing every year.
That was the idea behind the project so as to provide solution to lingering societal menace.
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