Today, students from the Belize High School's Robotics program were out fishing as part of preparation to participate in a robotics competition in South Korea.
Now you might ask: What does fishing have to do with robotics? And what are young people - whom you would probably identify as nerds - doing in the great outdoors fishing?
They told us it's about showing other countries what life is like in Belize as part of a social media challenge:
Evamarie Shakron, Participant
"There is a series of challenges that we need to complete in order to go on to the next levels and it makes our team look really good since we're representing our country and nationality because we're a smaller country so you know, people would love to see what we do but one of the challenges was to show what our country is good at or best at, one of our skills and we decided to do fishing because we believe is really good at fishing"
"We hope that other Belizeans can partake in robotics later on and see that it's like really fun, really good because it's not that known in this country but it is a really good sport to get into"
Khloe Longsworth, Participant
"With robotics and this challenge you learn a lot about other countries and it's a great opportunity for other countries to learn about Belize so once we post about this or once we post our skills other countries can know a little more about Belize"
They participate in the First Global Challenge in October in South Korea.
