Ghana’s EKIS Montessori school wins world robotic competition

EKIS Montessori school, one of the prestigious basic schools in Ghana emerged as the overall winners in a world robotic competition.

The global competition dubbed ‘CoderZ League Sprint Challenge’ is an international virtual competition designed to engage students with challenges and opportunities to work collaboratively in teams to accumulate points from completing a series of tasks.

The competition which is based on grade levels is organized in the Novice Division, Junior Division, and Pro Division.

In March 2021, Ekis Montessori School presented two teams: EKIS STARS and NYANSAPO to compete in the Novice Division which is meant for Grades 4 to Grade 7.

Both EKIS STARS and NYANSAPO recorded high scores to occupy the 1^st and 2^nd positions respectively beating 65 competitors from other parts of the world.

The proprietor of the school, Mr Elvis Boateng, said the success poses a huge challenge for the school to win more competitions in the coming years.

He was full of appreciation for the teaches who prepared the students for the competition as well as the parents for the support in getting the competing students ready.

“We will continue to position EKIS Montessori as a first-class institution of learning and as the school of choice for basic education in the country”, he noted.

He emphasized that plans are underway to enrich the content by introducing other learning modules which will further help in harnessing the potential of the students while the teachers are also trained adequately for the task.

About the school

The school is located on the outskirts of the capital, Pokuase-Mayera Dunyo in the Ga West Municipality.

The school commenced operation in September 2017. It runs a bilingual academic module in English and French.

EKIS primarily prioritizes the teaching and learning of coding (programming) and robotics which is a departure from the normal school syllabus.

This is inspired by the new trend in identifying talent in young school children and the desire to prepare them for the future and the dynamic labour market.

The school also teaches extra-curricular programmes like chess and taekwondo.