The sky is the limit for these Feza students

Last week, Feza Boy’s Secondary School had their school exhibition on Mother’s Day. Students showed their talents through music, drama, poems, and dance.

Preparations for the occasion had started several weeks back. It involved students’ competition in different exhibitions like entrepreneurship, arts, robotics, farming, music, theatre, and media clubs to name just a few.

Speaking with Young Citizen, Form 5 PCB student Khalfan Ahmed from the Robotics Club said that their club encourages creativity in making simple robots and programming them.

“The robots we have created imitate on real appliances. We want to encourage other students to learn Programming languages such as java, python and c++” he noted.

He said that their club has managed to attain several new members who are also interested in robotics and as well as programming.

“Some of the robots we have created were demonstrated during the previous Form Four graduations. The robots include: Snatcher, Shooter, Printer and Line follower,” he said.

Khalfan further explained the applications of the robots. The Snatcher is used in construction to lift heavy objects (fork lift); Shooter is used in the military as a missile launcher; Printer is used to produce hard copies and Line follower can be used in advanced automobiles.

“Our club was awarded bronze medals at Galaxy International School Uganda earlier this year and in June this year we will be competing in Vienna, Austria,” noted Mwidadi Msangi.

Mwidadi said they hope that through their club, they will be able to develop technological advancements in Tanzania.

“We believe that robots with artificial intelligence can lead to heavy industrialisation, self-employment and improvement in social services” he noted.

Ahmed said that recently a blind Microsoft programmer designed glasses that help blind people to see by taking a digital photograph, analysing it and informing him what’s happening around him.

“We need the community’s support to be successful. We plan to make our ideas accessible to all so that they can empower many,” he said.

Robotics and programming club was initiated in 2015, co-founded by Khalfan Ahmed, Aliasger Dossaji, Mwidadi Msangi and Habib Suleiman with their supervisor Mr Ibrahim Kinal. Also, the Helping Hands Charity Club too, had an amazing exhibition. Speaking with this magazine, the chair person of the club Godbless Azimio said that there are people who cannot even afford the basic requirements of living. They do not have shelter, food, or clothes. They wanted to do something about that.

“One way that we can help the poor and needy people is to offer moral support. Showing heartfelt humility and respect makes them aware that someone really does care about them and is trying to improve their condition. This is what we do in our club. We are glad that our parents support us too, ” he said.

Sheilla Juma, a parent who attended the event, said that the exhibitions are beneficial in today generations because it helps to train and make them to live their dreams.

“This is great. Those children at the Robotics, I am sure they are going to become great scientists when they grow up. That is for the doctor’s club too,” she noted.