00:01Wheels, sensors and a functioning motor.
00:05These students in northern Kenya are busy learning all about robotics.
00:09The goal? Getting the little machine they built to move.
00:13Success.
00:15Their instructor, Jeremiah Ketinji, knows exactly why robots are so fascinating.
00:22A busy career robot is just like a human being.
00:26The way your body has senses and you have motors.
00:31Also a robot is like that.
00:33The robot has like five senses.
00:36We have the ones that we use.
00:40They have the color sensor, the gyro sensor, the ultrasonic.
00:44And they have also motors that help them in movement.
00:49So basically a robot is just a human being that depends on a computer for instructions.
00:56When Ketinji was a student himself, he didn't have access to computers.
01:01But now he runs a string of robotics classes in rural areas
01:05and has even taken his pupils to major international competitions.
01:10Last year I was privileged to attend World Robotics Olympiad in Singapore
01:15together with students from this school and their teachers,
01:18which was a great opportunity for LAS and that is for me individually and also for them.
01:25Because it was an eye-opening program that I was able to become a judge there
01:31and get to use my skills that I've gained in those previous years in these schools.
01:39It's also eye-opening for the students.
01:43Attending the robotics classes, which are funded by a non-profit organization from the US,
01:48has been inspiring for many of them.
01:51I would like to become a neurological surgeon and the reason why is when I do robotics.
02:03So that means that in the future when I become a neurological surgeon,
02:08it will not take me myself to do the surgery.
02:11I can build a robot machine that can act as a doctor.
02:17So I need just to quad it and it will do the surgery itself.
02:21Kit Inge's young robotics engineer's upcoming goal is however much more imminent.
02:28They are hoping to win a place at the next Olympiad, taking place in Puerto Rico this year.
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