Girls AI and Robotics Club
After-school clubs where girls build real prototypes, learn responsible AI, and are kept in the programme by mentors who look like them.
- Partner
- InovTech STEM Center
- Timeline
- Active in Accra and Kumasi; northern expansion planned
- Weekly club sessions
- Simple electronics
- Responsible AI basics
- Women-in-tech mentorship
- Community-problem builds
- Family showcase
- VEX robotics kits
- CodeVR simulation
- Sensors and microcontrollers
The Girls AI and Robotics Club is designed for junior high and senior high students who rarely see themselves represented in technology spaces. Weekly sessions blend creative problem solving, simple electronics, responsible AI discussions, and mentorship from women in technical careers.
Students work in teams to build small prototypes such as soil-moisture monitors, traffic-safety counters, and assistive classroom tools. The emphasis is not on perfect hardware; it is on confidence, collaboration, ethical thinking, and the belief that girls can shape technology for their communities.
The club runs in partnership with InovTech STEM Center, using VEX robotics kits and the CodeVR browser-based simulator, so girls can keep building between sessions without needing a kit at home.
Our focus is what happens after the first session. Getting girls into a lab is the easier half; keeping them there is the work. Women mentors in the room, builds that answer problems from their own community, and a family showcase at the end of each cycle all exist to hold girls in the programme and carry them to a next step — a competition, a follow-on cohort, or a pathway into further study.
The next phase extends the club into northern Ghana, where far fewer STEM labs exist today.
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