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We're a charity started in Ghana for children who do not have access to technology | Ghana Robotics Competition: 2024 🏆🥇, 2025 🥈

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The journey to winning GRC 2024 🧵

First practical training with the Holey Bot weeks before the competition
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In 2019, 13-year-old Caleb Yirenkyi won the National RiSE Robotics Championship with his team, receiving his award from the iconic NSMQ Quiz Mistress Prof. Elsie Effah Kaufmann

[Desmond Kwame Nunoo @desmondknunoo]

No hardware? No problem!

Browser-based microcontroller and electronics simulators have completely changed the game, allowing engineers and hobbyists to prototype directly in the cloud.

Wokwi, Schematik, Withdiode (currently down), Tinkered and a few more.

What do you think?

[Desmond Kwame Nunoo @desmondknunoo]

We have another Emerging Technology Weekend Programme for Senior High Schools happening at the Emerging Technologies Centre in @LancasterGhana

[Desmond Kwame Nunoo @desmondknunoo]

I Just tried it to build a case for a project my students are working on.

A case for an Arduino Uno, a mini breadboard and an AS608 finger print sensor

https://t.co/8XYOzo7t8d

[Desmond Kwame Nunoo @desmondknunoo]

I had the privilege of introducing high school students to emerging tech during the Emerging Technologies Bootcamp.

At the end, the entire cohort, along with their school facilitators, headed to the Google Accra Al Community Centre three weeks ago for an interactive industry

[Desmond Kwame Nunoo @desmondknunoo]

Unitree Go2 SDK initialization

[Desmond Kwame Nunoo @desmondknunoo]

I've been building an open source block coding IDE for kids to interface microcontrollers with sensors, actuators, displays etc. Thanks to agentic coding, v1 is 90%. Read about it here: https://t.co/TqUwfD3IS8

[Jerry @LFCJerry]

The day life peaked

[TEMA OIL REFINERY (TOR) @TemaOilrefinery]

Official: TOR Resumes Operations After Years of Inactivity

[Consul of Ghana to Italy @consoleghana]

I know what you are thinking, and you are right: coming from me, this may sound contradictory.
However, I am not willing to compromise my intellectual honesty for the sake of money.
Today, in my view, the worst investment you can make in Ghana is real estate, particularly luxury real estate.
The market is heavily oversaturated with supply, while effective demand is concentrated in the hands of a very limited number of high net worth individuals.
The occupancy rate is under 50%
Real estate still makes sense when it is approached as a long term personal project the home you intend to live in, or when it targets non prime, mid to low segment developments where real demand actually exists.
So where should capital be allocated today?
In my opinion, the most compelling opportunities lie in innovative, scalable services designed for the growing middle class.
These are the sectors where demand is real, recurring, and structurally under served.

[Consul of Ghana to Italy @consoleghana]

According to the same statistics, Ghana ranks fourth in tourism revenue, yet it does not even appear in the top ten for number of visitors.
Two things are therefore clear:
Ghana is many things, but it is not cheap, and high quality tourism and related services represent a largely untapped goldmine.
To the young people who have asked me in the last 24 hours where to invest, my answer is simple: invest in your mindset. You do not need capital to begin.
Identify areas of interest in your local communities, enhance them, keep them clean, organized, and welcoming. People will notice.
Demand will follow. And the local economy will grow.
This is the first piece of advice I genuinely feel confident giving.

[MoMoFromMTNGh @MoMoFromMTNGh]

Stay Vigilant!

[Lancaster Uni Ghana @LancasterGhana]

#LUG launched its 8-week Emerging Technologies Bootcamp, sponsored by KGL Foundation, equipping high schoolers with AI, Robotics & Coding skills for the future.
#LoveUniversityGh #KGLFoundation #EmergingTechnologiesBootcamp

[Desmond Kwame Nunoo @desmondknunoo]

Congratulations 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[Lancaster Uni Ghana @LancasterGhana]

🚀 Team Ségulla shines!
LUG’s Computer Science students made a strong debut at the Ghana Robotics Competition, winning the “Rising Star of the Engineers League” award!

Semi-Finalists. Innovators. Lancaster pride. 👏❤️

#LancasterGhana #Robotics #Innovation #STEM #LoveLancasterGH

[Lancaster Uni Ghana @LancasterGhana]

Here are the winners of the first-ever Scholars Cup Challenge in Nigeria! 🇳🇬

A huge congratulations to all the winners and schools that participated, you’ve raised the bar for the editions to come! 🎓

#SCC2025 #ScholarsCupChallenge #YoungScholars #LoveLancasterGH

[Africa Facts Zone @AfricaFactsZone]

Uganda's new Hoima City Stadium has been awarded a perfect 5-star rating, which meets FIFA and CAF standards.

[Desmond Kwame Nunoo @desmondknunoo]

Congratulations to Team Ségulla from Lancaster University Ghana on their exceptional performance at the Ghana Robotics Competition!

​In their very first Engineers League Competition, they emerged as the Rising Star of the Engineers League

​It was a true pleasure coaching them.

[STEMR Tech Labs @stemr_org]

Zainab and Christiana working on their project. It's a Notes Backup Device that automatically flips and scans the pages of your notes into a digital document

#STEMforAll #FutureTechLeaders #stemeducation #STEM #coding #robotics