Gold fields Ghana Foundation has handed over a $68,000 Smart Laboratory and Innovation Centre to the Atuabo Basic School, in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem municipality of the Western Region.
The facility is critical for students to foster hands-on training, nurture creativity and problem-solving abilities as well as prepare them for future.
It is equipped with 50 high-performance tablets with a charging cabinet, 20 coding and robotics kits, two Lego Prime robotics kits, 10 Arduino kits, three Quest Virtual Reality headsets, two laptops for the instructors, a projector and a router for internet connectivity.
In addition to teaching the mandatory computational skills, the facility will also train pupils from all 10 basic schools in this community, as well as any interested adult in basic robotics and AI at a fee.
