SCIENCE BASED FOCUS GROUP
ROBOTICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence was introduced as integral part of our curriculum in 2021/2022 Academic session and is made compulsory for all students except students in terminal classes (Basic 9 and SS3) because of the volume of work and preparation for their external Examinations.
Before now some of our campuses has been doing Robotics at different levels and have participated in competition within Nigeria and outside the country. In 2015 some of our students participated in World Robotics Olympiad that was held in Doha, Qatar.
Series of Deliberation and consultations were made, but The Education Secretary gave the push with the Slogan “You Either join the train or you are left behind, because this Robotics and AI train does not have a reverse gear and will not wait”. With this we partnered with two companies for training and capacity building for staff, curriculum preparation, content preparation and training materials.
- EIN Educational Services handled Robotics training for staff and supply of Dobot AI starter Kits.
- AHER Technology handle the programming part, preparing curriculum and video content for (HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, PHP, PYTHON and Libraries and frameworks)
The curriculum was structured into Junior School and senior school as follows:
- Junior School: Robotics, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. This is covered in Basic 7 and Basic 8
- Senior School: Robotics, PHP, PYTHON, Frameworks and Libraries.
The idea is that the student would have covered front-end web application development in their junior school and focus on the back-end and core of AI when they get to senior school.
The programme is well structured and integrated into our curriculum reflecting on the timetable. Every class has 80 minutes per week of class activities and other periods for practical mostly by weekend. Being treated as one of the subjects in the school, it is also examined during our test and Examinations and reflects in the students report sheets.
Students engage in several projects and inter class and inter school competitions. Robotics and AI has become part of the projects we showcase
during our ACTIVATE programmes, which is a programme that we discover talents in different areas.
We are often having engagement with our partner companies to see how we can always do things better. We have weekly review meetings and trainings where we look at different things that will enhance productivity.
Our students are encouraged to take online short courses and certification exams. Our students took HTML, CSS and JavaScript training and exams from greatleraning.com in 2022.
We are working towards partnering with organisations both local and international that will improve our outcomes.
