Robotics is transforming African classrooms in 2025. From Zimbabwe to Nigeria, students, teachers, and mentors are reimagining learning through WRO, building robots, confidence, and a new future for education.

A coach in the Philippines makes sure his students keep learning – through storms, road closures, and school shutdowns. His determination has taken them from after-school robotics sessions all the way to the World Robot Olympiad international stage.

When Karabo Rithuri’s school dropped robotics, she didn’t walk away. She stepped up. Using the confidence robotics had given her, she reached out to local sponsors for equipment and started her own robotics club.