A proposal for RoboCupJunior in Africa: Promoting educational experience with robotics

Abstract

This paper addresses RoboCupJunior, an educational robotics initiative that aims to enhance learning through educational robotics activities around the world. RoboCupJunior is a division of RoboCup, a Robotics initiative that aims to promote Robotics and AI research, by offering publicly appealing, but formidable challenges. RoboCupJunior has three distinguished leagues - Soccer, Rescue and Dance, that attract students from all the continents. However, Africa has not taken significant advantage of this initiative, with a rather low participation of a few African countries, only. Therefore, this paper aims to introduce and promote educational robotics to students in Africa in a more generalized way, with possible suggestions to make the initiative successful in the region, in the future.