Robotic Team Innovate an Chess Board for the Blind

Date: May 17, 2024 | Posted in News | South African News

When a group of clever children part of Booster Kids Robotics School got the chance to compete in the First Lego League (FLL) Masterpiece Competition, they hardly knew that they’d come up with an innovation that would mean so much to so many people, and one mom in particular.

But, a challenge to innovate ‘something that would make a difference’ as part of the competition has done exactly that, and thanks to Team Checkmate, these a chess board accessible to the blind is now no longer a just an idea!

It all began in 2023 when the team competed regionally in October 2023 in the FLL Masterpiece competition. The competition is divided into two: The ‘Robot Run’ (where robots are built from lego and coded to perform functions on pre-printed tables) and the ‘Innovation Project’, which entails innovating something that’ll solve a problem and make a difference where needed.