AngloGold Ashanti trains 36 pupils at maiden robotics bootcamp

Thirty-six pupils from eight schools walked into the AngloGold Ashanti Robotics Training Centre as curious children — and emerged five days later as budding engineers, coders, and problem-solvers.

The centre, commissioned in July 2025, is the first of its kind in the Ashanti Region. Its glass doors opened to Primary four pupils and Junior High School students who had never touched a circuit board before.

By the finale, they were wiring electronics, assembling mechanical parts, and presenting prototypes designed to tackle challenges in their own communities.

The grand finale drew, education workers, parents, and members of the community.

Pride rippled through the crowd as pupils demonstrated robots that could collect rubbish, devices to improve water access, and coded solutions for everyday problems. 

For AngloGold Ashanti, the bootcamp was more than a showcase. It was the first public test of its 10-year Socio-Economic Development Plan — a deliberate investment in education and innovation.

Edmund Oduro Agyei, Community Relations Manager, reminded the young innovators that technology was already reshaping healthcare, agriculture, and communication.

George Alfred Koomson, Obuasi Municipal Director of Education, praised the initiative and urged that such programmes spread beyond Obuasi.

Delivered in collaboration with the DreamOval Foundation and the Ghana Education Service, the bootcamp has already sparked calls for replication across the region.

Organisers repeatedly described the bootcamp as a ‘novelty.’ In Obuasi, that word carries promise.

FROM KINGSLEY E. HOPE, KUMASI