Queen College Lagos has emerged overall winner of the national 2020/2021 LEGO League Challenge by creating an App called Access, which gets people active by connecting people interested in the same sports.
Queen College Lagos, a new entrant to the program and all-girls school won the competition, which had participation of about 1,320 students from the 132 teams including student from all 104 Unity School in Nigeria, in total who were among the over 500,000 children around the world who participated in the 2020/2021 LEGO League Challenge.
Federal Science and Technology College, Orozo, came second, while Team AIROL, an all-girls team from University of Lagos AI Lab, came third.
The three teams will represent Nigeria at the International Open Championship in Greece.
The program was organised by Coderina Education and Technology Foundation (Coderina) in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Education with support from SAP, DOW, Ford, NITDA, the LEGO Foundation and FIRST.
The aim of the program was to help students develop innovation, critical thinking and lifelong skills and these are the skills that would prepare them for the future of work and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4iR).
The missions reflected potential thought-starters for their self-directed innovation project, where students will identify a problem related to people not being active enough, research the problem and design a new piece of technology or improve an existing one to help them solve that problem.
Students from schools in the northern and southern regions of Nigeria, competed in Kano and Lagos respectively in a head-to-head, putting more than 12 weeks of research, design, and programming to the test in the first-ever regional championships to win honors and recognition.
For the National Championship, the regional qualifiers/winners, alongside other private schools and neighbourhood teams converged online in a 3-day virtual competition.
