RES HELPS STUDENTS FLY TO GENEVA


Simunye - RES has sponsored students from Ngomane, St Marks and St Theresa’s High Schools to proceed to Geneva for a global robotics competition.



The company donated E54 000 to the students’ team, which will be representing Eswatini, under the STEM Eswatini Robotics. The money is to partly cater for their accommodation, meals and land transport.

Under the theme – 2022 First Global Challenge Carbon Capture, the students have come up with an exciting robot that captures carbon molecules emitted from different industry and transport emissions in an endeavour to improve climate change challenges that the environment faces. 

The students were challenged under three (3) categories, namely, carbon counter measures innovation project where the team was required to initiate a concept that will allow for the collection, re-use, and recycling of carbon molecules, which will be expected to be implemented post the competition if it triumphs and succeeds in Geneva.

Secondly, “The Eagle” is the team’s robot brainchild which they created and designed under the category for “sport for the mind” challenge. Destiney Moodley, the team’s Robot Designer and Programmer said, “The Eagle took about 130 hours over 16 sessions to put together.

The last category in community engagement, which is headed by Siviwe Dlamini, the Community Engagement Project Manager said, “While some of such innovations bring positive change, the same may be abstract in the community hence the necessity to do an outreach to inform and associate the communities with these innovations for their appreciation.”

Presenting the funding, RES Managing Director Nick Jackson said: “RES aligns itself with activities that create a green environment. As an example, we have an ongoing project to convert all irrigation types to drip irrigation, the construction of a solar plant as well as the introduction of biofuel. All these and many more initiatives are part of our contribution as a company towards green fuel and the green environment.”

After a presentation about “The Eagle” was well delivered, in awe, Nick Jackson said, “It is very exciting that you have been afforded such a lifetime opportunity and that from your creation, we can make the environment a better place as we continue to make the environment as green as possible.”

He gave the youthful students a few presentation pointers and further wished them well as they travel abroad.

Thembelisha Preparatory (Robotics Teacher) and ESwatini Foundation for STEM Education chairperson Titus Mandla Sithole thanked RES for the continued support beyond the value of money.

Group Public Affairs Manager Sifiso Nyembe said: "We are also very grateful to FIRST Global Financial Aid Program, Eswatini Communications Commission (ESCCOM), and Tibiyo Taka Ngwane who have partnered with us to make sure that as these young trendsetters jet off to Geneva, their travel and stay there is comfortable as they deliver what we think is an award winning innovation that will raise the country’s flag high and make Eswatini proud.”




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