Kampala Diplomatic International School (KDIS) has won the best robotics design award at the Pan-African Robotics Competition in Dakar, Senegal.
The competition ran from 3 to 7 November and brought together teams from more than 35 countries across the continent.
Johnson Nyeko, the school’s director and the MP for Lamwo County, praised the students for representing the school and Uganda well.
“We are proud to have won the competition and we congratulate Team Uganda on the victory,” he said.
Nyeko said technology was the future of Uganda’s economic transformation.
The students competed in six leagues: Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Drone, Tech, Makers and Stars.
The event is open to students and engineers who want to build real hardware, deliver working systems and compete against their peers.
Organisers say the competition is backed by institutions in robotics, education and Olympic sport.
