The team designed an AI-powered voice assistant intended to help visually impaired people with tasks such as reading, recognising objects and navigating. Organisers describe ambitions to support local languages and adapt the system to users' needs.
Winning the Zimbabwean national competition is not the same as winning the global World Robot Olympiad. OurPride will distinguish national and international results and assess the accessibility claims through demonstrations rather than assuming a classroom prototype is commercially deployed.
The teachers, club coordinators and students who built and demonstrated the project should be recognised through official team material, with extra care around naming or photographing minors.
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