Cameroon: 16 year old girl is selected for FIRST Globe robotics challenge

Young and smart Larissa, who hails from the peripheries of the Yaounde urban city, is the only girl of the students aged between 15 and 18, that have been selected to participate in this year’s edition of the FIRST Globe challenge in Washington DC.

Journal du Cameroon cites that, the brilliant girl said she has as dream to become a top engineer in future, so as to contribute to the technological development of her country Cameroon. 

She will have to leave for the Washington DC where the non-profit organisation is based, before the 17 July, the date slated for the event. Every participant is expected to arrive on the 14 July while 15 and 16 July are set for the inspection of the robots.

FIRST Globe's main objective is to encouraged youths to pick up careers in which they will excel and become leaders in seeking solutions to technological challenges in fields of life such as; medicine, energy, education and above all in water purification.

Water purification will predominantly be one of the 14 domains of challenges that will characterise the competition. This is because access to portable water, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa is a big problem.

The 14 Grand challenges are the most pressing engineering difficulties, that the world is battling with as identified by, the US National Academy of Engineering, UK Royal Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.