Building Skills, Friendship Through Robotics

On July 28, USAID’s Basic Education Program welcomed back five primary school students and two teachers from Iliria School, Pristina who attended the “ROBOTEKA” summer school in Bitola, Macedonia. USAID/Kosovo supported their visit to the camp, which was funded by USAID/Macedonia for the last three years.

This is the first year that students from Kosovo were able to attend the technology camp. The students undertook practical activities involving the assembly and programming of robots, competed in competitions between groups, watched presentations and videos of robots, and visited businesses that use control technology. In addition to robotics, the participants went movies, museums and local sites, participated in educational games and had an opportunity to make friends with students from Macedonia and Kosovo.

Iliria School is one of 50 leading schools in Kosovo that will receive technology equipment through USAID’s Basic Education Program. The program will organize a similar robotics camp in Kosovo next summer in order to include more primary school students. The camp will emphasize learning 21st Century skills while developing trust and friendship across Kosovo’s different ethnic cultures.