ACROBOT, an all-girls robotics team from Ghana, won the 2019 World Robofest Championship, "a festival of competitions with autonomous robots," according to its website. The contest took place at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) in Southfield, Michigan, earlier this month.

According to the pan-African media company Face 2 Face Africa, the team is comprised of nine girls from the Methodist Girls' High School in the eastern region of the West African country.

ACROBOT beat out teams from Mexico, the United States and South Africa in all 10 categories, including Game (Complete robotic missions), Exhibition (Show off projects) and Vision Centric Challenge (Develop robots to solve problems using cameras). The winners also successfully built a robot and used the binary number given during the competition to have it organize boxes.

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The U.S. Embassy of Ghana congratulated the girls for winning in a tweet posted on May 21. "Congratulations to Team ACROBOT. . .We are proud to partner with the Ghana Robotics Academy Foundation to promote STEM education," it wrote under a photo of the team.

The girls' team was not the only competitors from Ghana; there was also a boys' collective called Team Cosmic Intellect that was a participant of the contest's junior division. The boys' team came in sixth place among the 52 teams competing in Robofest.