{"id":248864,"date":"2026-11-02T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-5-000-young-namibians-learn-robotics-coding\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T04:00:16","slug":"namibia-5-000-young-namibians-learn-robotics-coding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-5-000-young-namibians-learn-robotics-coding\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: 5 000 Young Namibians Learn Robotics, Coding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">More than 5 000 young Namibians have gained exposure to robotics, coding, electronics, and other practical skills through the Mindsinaction STEAM Centre since it was established in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Nedbank Namibia head of marketing and communications Janet Kapenda said practical learning was important in preparing young people for the workplace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">&#8220;Young people need more than academic knowledge to thrive in today&#8217;s world. They need opportunities to apply their learning, solve real-world problems and develop&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610280740.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 5 000 young Namibians have gained exposure to robotics, coding, electronics, and other practical skills through the Mindsinaction STEAM Centre since it was established in 2018. Nedbank Namibia head of marketing and communications Janet Kapenda said practical learning was important in preparing young people for the workplace. &#8220;Young people need more than academic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":248865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,14190,8334,4706,724,7974,257,54243,254,7720],"class_list":["post-248864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coding","tag-learn","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibians","tag-news","tag-robotics","tag-south-africa-today","tag-young"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}