Robot making
Training on ‘Robot making’ underway in Cumilla amid students’ enthusiasm
A training programme on ‘making robots’ for students of classes V to X started at the laboratories of Cumilla Collectorate School & College and District administration lab creating enthusiasm among young learners.
Organized by Cumilla Robotics and Programming Club the objective of the training is to improve the technological knowledge among the students and make them interested in scientific inventions.
Over 700 students from 16 educational institutions in Cumilla city first took part in a three-day workshop. From among them, 120 students were selected for this training, said assistant Commissioner Kaniz Fatema, officer-in-charge of the ICT department of the district administration.
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Besides, training will be arranged in every upazila on the initiative of Cumilla Robotics and Programming Club, she added.
During a visit the UNB correspondent found the students busy with their training. In the district administration lab, the body print of the robot is running on the 3D printer. In addition, students are working with sensors.
Mahmuda bin Mohsin, a 10th grader of Cumilla High School, said, “I can learn many things from this training. This is a new experience. I hope I can do something good through this workshop”.
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Shirin Akhter, a guardian, said “My daughter Jinat Akhter is in 10th grade. She has been interested in technology since childhood. She is very happy to come to this workshop”.
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