A Robot That Folds Clothes In 3 Secs And Other Nigerian Made Tech Wonders

By Rufus Ike

As the world moves towards technology, Nigerians also are not left behind, there might be a thousand and one things wrong with our nation but being a resilient population, we haven’t let that slow us down especially in the case of our kids who are as the popular saying “our tomorrow” make waves in the tech industry.

August, last year, a group of five Nigerian girls, Promise Nnalue, Jessica, Nwabuaka Ossai, Adaeze Onuigbo and Vivian Okoye won $10,000 Junior Gold Awards at the 2018 Technoation World Challenge held in California, USA.

The group code-named Save A Soul, from Regina Pacis College in Anambra developed an app “FD-Detector which helps to fight fake drugs by scanning barcodes on drugs to determine the genuineness of a drug. The team argue that Nigeria has a big of fake drugs and are open to working with NAFDAC or World Health Organisation (WHO).

In the vein, also in California, a team of young Nigerian kids, aged 6-10, from Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, won the Teamwork award at the first ®LEGO® League (FLL® Jr.) International Expo.

The team, coached by Uchechukwu Odiaka and Mercy Makagni includes Okechukwu Samira Peculiar, Amos Uduak and Ayeba-Enenimiete Owatarite.

Recently, a young Nigerian coder, Fathia Abdullahi, identified a key problem at home and has solved it.

Fathia Abdullahi, 12, decided to build a robot that folds a t-shirt in 3 seconds. According to her “I made it because there are too much clothes to fold on Saturdays and Sundays when you wash a lot.”

Fathia who started coding at 11 then went ahead to describe how she made “I made it using some pins, some beams and EV3 brick (a programmable intelligent brick).

Though at the prototype stage, she plans to develop it to sell to the local market

Due to her love for technology, she hopes to become a food scientist in the future “when I grow up, I will love to be a food scientist, and I will be able to use this coding to build so many things that would help me.”

Much recently a young coder, Basil Okpara, courtesy of Visa won an all-expense paid trip to Egypt to watch the African Nations cup after winning a coding competition completion organised by Visa Nigeria.

When asked what motivated him, he said “why not design mine so others can have fun. My daddy bought me a laptop and registered me for the boot camp, they thought us how to build games in four weeks.

“I started building games in March 2019 till now and I have built about 47 games like Falling Apples, Rock Attack and others. One day I’ll put it on Play Store for others to play too.”

Like they say “catch them young”, the future is full-time tech. you can registers your kids at code camps for kids to empower them with essential skills as the world tilts towards virtual reality.

With vacation time in sight, you can send your kids to upgrade their knowledge by enrolling them in coding boot camps like Aspire Summer camp, Young Inventors Summer camp, 9jacodekids Academy, CodeSpark Nigeria, Kids Code Club, SparkiT, TechQuest Stem Education for kids, Engineering for kids in Nigeria, Audax Code school, Brickz 4 Kidz and so many others.

There are different skills to be learnt in the digital space ranging from 2D and 3D animation, mobile and desktop app development, graphic design to Kodu, Java, and Python among others.

The future will be digital, give your kids an edge by arming them with the skills for a better future.

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