{"id":15636,"date":"2022-06-07T07:47:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T07:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/girls-coding-academy-brings-home-16-gold-medals"},"modified":"2022-06-07T08:20:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T08:20:30","slug":"girls-coding-academy-brings-home-16-gold-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/girls-coding-academy-brings-home-16-gold-medals","title":{"rendered":"Girls Coding Academy brings home 16 gold medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Girls Coding Academy has scooped 16 gold medals from the First LEGO League that took place in Johannesburg on Saturday With the aim to encourage participation of young boys and girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programmes, Girls Coding Academy had applied to take part in the First LEGO League,<\/p>\n<p>seeing this as a great opportunity. Girls Coding Academy Tutor Thabang Pinyane acknowledged that even though they did not become champions of the league, they<\/p>\n<p>managed to get 16 gold medals. \u201cOut of all 16 missions that where expected to be performed through the robots, 16 of our participants managed to successfully<\/p>\n<p>perform five missions. In an interview with Informative Newspaper, Girls Coding Academy Marketer Tebello Thamae said this friendly competition consisted<\/p>\n<p>of teams of students from age four to 13 who engaged in research problem-solving, coding and engineering, who built and programmed Lego robots that navigate the<\/p>\n<p>missions of the robot game. \u201cTeams participate in a research project to identify and solve a relevant real world problem. This experience also helps students engage in hands STEM experiences, building confidence, growing knowledge and developing habits of learning,\u201d Thamae said.<\/p>\n<p><b>The <\/b>First LEGO League introduced STEM to children through fun, exciting global robotics program, helping students and teachers build a better future together. The first three divisions of the league inspired youth to experiment and grow their critical thinking, coding and design skills.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\">Lesotho<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. Girls Coding Academy has scooped 16 gold medals from the First LEGO League that took place in Johannesburg on Saturday With the aim to encourage participation of young boys and girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programmes, Girls Coding Academy had applied to take part in the First LEGO League, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":15635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,8,16],"tags":[233,246,1890,245],"class_list":["post-15636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-lego","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Girls Coding Academy brings home 16 gold medals - 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