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Reading: From Robotics Club to Multi-Million Dollar Startup: The Inspiring Story of Silas Adekunle
Reading: From Robotics Club to Multi-Million Dollar Startup: The Inspiring Story of Silas Adekunle

From Robotics Club to Multi-Million Dollar Startup: The Inspiring Story of Silas Adekunle

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From Robotics Club to Multi-Million Dollar Startup: The Inspiring Story of Silas Adekunle
From Robotics Club to Multi-Million Dollar Startup: The Inspiring Story of Silas Adekunle

Silas Adekunle, a Nigerian-British entrepreneur, inventor, and robotics engineer, is renowned as the CEO and co-founder of Reach Robotics, a company that specializes in designing augmented reality gaming robots. Adekunle was born on July 6, 1992, in Nigeria, but grew up in the UK, where he attended the University of the West of England and pursued a degree in robotics. During his academic tenure, Adekunle established a robotics club to encourage youngsters to pursue STEM careers.

After graduation, Adekunle worked as a robotics engineer at a startup in Bristol before partnering with others to establish Reach Robotics in 2013. The company’s primary product, MekaMon, is a four-legged robot that can be controlled using a smartphone app. MekaMon employs augmented reality to merge virtual and physical gameplay in a gaming experience.

In 2017, Reach Robotics became the first robotics company to secure funding from Apple’s augmented reality (AR) platform, ARKit. The company further raised $7.5 million in 2018 through a funding round led by London Venture Partners, pushing the total funding amount to $10 million. Adekunle’s entrepreneurial and engineering accomplishments have been acknowledged, and he was named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in European Technology in 2018.

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Festus Conteh is an international youth that functions conveniently in all forms of writing including article writing, news, script, content writing, constitution and project/proposal writing. Writing is fun to Festus and has brought fame and recognition in his clime. In 2019, he was awarded best upcoming writer in an online writing completion that was organized by the Association of Sierra Leonean Authors (ASLA). After his impactful contribution to national development and cohesion through writing, he was nominated for the African Genius Award for the Best Writer in Africa Award Category an award he lost to one of the greatest African Writers - Chinua Achebe. In 2022, Festus was one of the applicants to the Commonwealth Youth Council (CYC) as Vice Chairperson (Policy and Advocacy) a process that met imperil feedback. As a freelancer, Festus has written articles for magazines, newspapers, and media houses and his articles have attracted big media houses including BBC, Aljazeera and Legit. Ng and is the Head of Programs at Salone Messenger a public relations firm based in Sierra Leone with the latest news and information. He is the founder of Africa’s Wakanda a platform that spotlight the beauty of Africa. Festus is also a perpetual volunteer in life-changing causes and has shown great commitment and dedication to being a catalyst and solution to the challenges faced by young people like himself. Festus currently serves as the Secretary General of the Africa Youth Leaders movement which is a network of youth between the ages of 20 – 30 years who have shown achievement, leadership potential and commitment to make a difference. Festus is also the Africa Focal Point of Youth for Change Initiative, which is a platform through which young people can access resources, be empowered and given the opportunity to grow to become useful members of society who will participate in the development of their communities and nation. Along with another Africa Youth platform, Festus has Co-Founded the Future of Africa initiative which is an advocate forum with the aim to bring together local and international socio-economic stakeholders to support innovative programs aimed at advancing the radical and practical progress of adoption awareness-vulnerable children and youth and youth leadership-through interlinking local, regional and international resources and opportunities.