Basseterre: St. Kitts, February 8, 2021: On February 4th, the St. Kitts-Nevis Robotics Association (SKNRA) held its first year anniversary and awards ceremony at the Immaculate Conception Catholic School’s hall. In his address to the gathering, Executive Director of the SKNRA, Mr. Shaqueed Benjamin, outlined the...
This is another take on the story of Team Hope — the Syrian Refugees who became world champions. How did a series of pop-up garage healthcare clinics in Lebanon in 2013 eventually led to a team of Syrian refugee children called Team Hope winning first prize...
Thanks to a number of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) competitions and programs happening all over the world, kids everywhere are sharpening their technical skills. Here are just a few programs that are developing future generations of scientists and engineers: A group of high...
31 October, 2020: Madagascar national robotics team was ranked 5th out of 175 participants worldwide during the closing ceremony of the 2020 First Global Challenge (FGC), a quantitative criterion-based ranking. Along with this achievement, the two mentors of the Malagasy team received the award for...
Team Qatar, the STEM-vengers, have finished in the 19th place among 175 teams worldwide in the FIRST Global Challenge. The team is part of Texas A&M University at Qatar’s STEM Hub Robotics Club (SHRC), a joint initiative between the Qatar Foundation (QF) partner university and Qatar...
STEM Guyana has, once again, ‘pulled off’ an impressive performance at the FIRST Global robotic Challenge which was held virtually this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The team – the youngest to date to take part in this competition for Guyana – placed 27th out...
A team of 12 high school students of E2STEM Preah Yukunthor High School were ranked 10th among 175 participating countries in the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge, an international robotic competition created for high school students around the world to display their knowledge about Science, Technology, Engineering and...
In a celebratory live video on Saturday, FIRST Global highlighted the projects by teams from different countries participating in the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge. The hosts of the virtual event also announced the 2020 award and prize winners of the challenge. Among the prize winners are Teams...
Team Bangladesh has become the champion among 174 countries in the biggest global robotics competition for high school students titled "FIRST Global Challenge" which lasted for three months from July to September. In these three months, the 10 young innovators developed life-saving devices and robots, participated...
(Translated from Spanish.) In 2019, Guatemala occupied position 71 of the FIRST Global Challenge, which organizes an Olympic robotics challenge every year, and this year it climbed to position 25. The olympiad is intended to inspire more than two billion young people around the world to develop...
(Translated from Bangla) [vc_video link='https://youtu.be/nzKcRoxZEXA?t=49'] Bangladesh tops the Olympics. What surprised you? That may not be possible at the Olympic Games, but Bangladesh has already shown that in the Robot Olympics. The FIRST Global Challenge of organizing robotics. This time it has been arranged virtually due to the...
Bangladesh has ranked number one among 174 participating countries over the last 5 weeks at FIRST Global Challenge (FGC), an international robotics competition, held annually for high school students. Team Bangladesh has to hold on to the position for five more weeks to become the winner...
A team of inventors from the First Skills Club in Sfax is participating in the “FIRST Global Challenge” Olympic Games for Robotics virtually, due to the Corona pandemic, which started from July until September 2020. The nominated team includes: Islam Belhaj, second year secondary school, Habib Mouzoun...
(Translated from Greek) The Greek National Team Robotics «FIRST Global Challenge Team Greece» year represents Greece in the global competition the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge, which is being performed digitally for the first time -thanks to the pandemic- from 1 the July to September 23 entitled «Connecting...
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This year, the five-person FGC Team will represent Hungary in the programming program the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge, founded by the engineer-inventor Dean Kamen. This year, the high school members of a five-person Hungarian team, FGC Team Hungary, will also compete in the First Global Challenge,...
Kathmandu, 4 September (2020) – FIRST Global Challenge – International Robot Olympics 2020 is being held online with the theme of “Connecting Communities”, where all countries have participated along with Nepal. This year, Team Nepal is formed with Team Mentors Er. Manoj Lekhak, Er. Niraj Pradhan and...
(Translated from Vietnamese) The 2020 FIRST Global Challenge organized with the theme "Connecting Communities to connect the young community of STEAM enthusiasts around the world, is a playground for talented and creative young people in technology." The FIRST Global Challenge is a place to make friends with...
https://www.facebook.com/teamguatemalafgc/videos/932040080626922/ (In Spanish)...
(Translated from Spanish) Education institutions still do not register their students' attendance to avoid infections by SARS-CoV-2 , however, they are already preparing the hygiene materials necessary for returning to school. Given this, members of the Cervantes College robotics decided to collect material and donate it...
(Translated from Arabic) In this article, we will shed light on the participation of the Sudan team in the FIRST Global Challenge and the STEM approach to teaching and their experience in this challenge through these excerpts to familiarize the reader with these themes. Who are they? The...
(Translated from Spanish) Through the National Robotics Meeting, better known as Project Balam, thousands of young people throughout the national territory have had the opportunity to enhance their learning in STEM areas, in addition to putting their soft skills into practice by working as a team...
(Translated from Albanian) The team made up of Elta Bajrami, Albana Hajdini, Vlera Saraçi and Penda Smajlaj, with Elita Hajrizi as mentor, have been representing Kosovo in the biggest international robotics challenge, the FIRST Global Challenge, which because of COVID-19 is being held online, for a...
(Translated from Spanish) The organization Shoulder to Shoulder fulfilling the mission of providing a STEM education to young people in Intibucá has given young people an opportunity to represent Honduras in the world robotics competition organized by FIRST Global. The team has participated in this world competition...
(Translated from Spanish) A 100% female robotics team made up of 8 girls between the ages of 15 and 18 represent Chile in the annual robotics competition called the FIRST Global Challenge. This year, due to the current world situation, the competition has been carried out online, carrying...
(Translated from French) To recall, the Malagasy national team is currently ranked 5th place in the annual robotics competition 2020 edition (First Global Challenge 2020). Seven races from the end of the competition, it is still possible for our 5 youngsters to gain a few more...
After years of promoting the benefits of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills in high school education, young Cambodians are seen to be sharpening their skills to keep pace with the rest of the world. Ros Daro, a teacher in the pilot E2STEM school programme,...
Team Bangladesh has been on a roll in the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge, holding the top position for five consecutive weeks. The 13-week-long annual robotics competition, styled after the Olympics, is being held online this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Every year, youths from around the...
I am excited to be part of the 2020 Zimbabwe National Robotics Team that is participating in one of the world’s biggest challenges in robotics, the FIRST Global Challenge. FIRST stands for “For Inspiration and Recognition in Science and Technology.” This robotics challenge, done the Olympic...
(Translated from Dutch) STEM (Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) application has become an indispensable part of society, which is increasingly dependent on technology. This has been particularly evident in the current Covid-19 pandemic. The Young Help Suriname Foundation has prepared 9 Surinamese youths to participate in...
Liberia national robotic team, FIRST (For Inspiration and recognition of science and technology) Global Team has over the years represented the millions of youth across Liberia who have the passion for Science Technology engineering and mathematics education on the international stage. FIRST Global Team Liberia believed that...
(Translated from Spanish) Young people from the Itapúa department who are part of an Olympic robotics team participate, on behalf of Paraguay, in the FIRST Global world competition, which includes participants from 193 countries. The competition should have taken place in-person, but due to the covid...
Translated from Malay. Kuala Pilah: Five students of Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Tunku Besar Burhanuddin (SMKTBB), Seri Menanti, were selected to represent Malaysia in the First Global Challenge (Virtual Competition) 2020. The five participants involved two Form Five students, namely Muhammad Faiz Fakhrullah Zulkarnain, Imran Syakir Azmi and...
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(Translated from Spanish.) There are 6 adolescents from schools in Greater Buenos Aires, coordinated by Educabot, the Argentine partner of FIRST Global. The team is developing an automatable device for everyday tasks and competes with more than 150 countries in weekly challenges using programming, animation and 3D...
(Translated from Turkmen) The FIRST Global Challenge robotics olympiad is held annually among millions of young people. The FIRST Global Challenge will be held online from June 27 to September 26 this year, covering the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. In this major international...
(Translated from French) Due to the covid-19 that is rampant in the world today, the robotics competition is being played remotely from July 24 to September 26. They are 7 young adolescents to participate in this competition and hope to win the trophy. They are 7 Comorians,...
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High school students with an interest in robotics from schools across Qatar have formed Team Qatar, the STEM-vengers, to represent the country in the FIRST Global Challenge, an “Olympics”-style robotics event. The FIRST Global Challenge invites each country to send a team to compete in a...
For the third year in a row, the robotic club "Robomaster" named after Sofia Kovalevskaya represents the Russian Federation at the international youth robotics Olympiads "FIRST Global Challenge" under the flag of the Russian Federation. The main goal of this youth competition is to develop an...
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Prime Minister Brigadier Mark Phillips said the Government will continue to support the work programme of STEM Guyana, which is in keeping with its vision for youth development. The Prime Minister made these remarks during a meeting with Executive Director of STEM Guyana, Ms. Karen Abrams,...
(Translated from French) Since 2017, thanks to the STEM for Good association , Madagascar has been represented each year at the FIRST Global Challenge, an annual international Olympic-style robotics competition. This year the contest will end September 25, 2020, and today Madagascar is the 5 th...
(Translated from Portuguese.) The world robotics championship has been taking place since 2017 and this year Angola is among the best classified players in the tournament, taking into account the situation the world is experiencing, the championship is happening online, at that moment, the Angolan team,...
Translated from Serbian. At the suggestion of the International FIRST Committee Association (FIRST Global), a team of students (Arman Lupša and Petar Rogić) and students (Nina Latinović, Nikolina Milosavljević, Jelena Tomašević, Nina Pešić, Sara Jašović, Sofija Kurćubić and Una Žarković) of the Gymnasium "Kreativno pero", together...
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts — The St. Kitts-Nevis Robotics Team is competing in the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge – Connecting Communities, which runs July 1 to September 26. The event will be virtual due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. “The COVID-19 situation changed the whole dynamic of us travelling,...
A robotics team made up entirely of young women from Afghanistan has developed a lightweight, low-cost ventilator that, pending approval, may soon be seen in hospitals across the country amid the coronavirus fight. The Afghan Robotics Team first began developing the ventilator back in March, after...
The National Institute for Science, Technology and Innovation yesterday officially announced the launch of their participation in the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge and unveiled the six-strong members of Team Seychelles who hope to fly the Seychelles flag and improve the country’s ranking in the yearly international...
FIRST Global Team Liberia, a team being widely considered as Liberia National Robotics Team, on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, at the headquarters of the National Catholic Health Council of Liberia located in Gaye Town, Old Road, had a brief program with its founding National Coordinator,...
The lagoon team of Colegio Cervantes is positioned as a strong competitor for the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge. Despite the conditions, the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge started at the end of June, with the central theme of connecting communities. Among six teams from the republic, Cerbotics 4400 from Colegio...
Even though Herat, Afghanistan, is on lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, many of Nahid Rahimi’s days during the pandemic have started with a drive to a mechanic’s workshop. Nahid, 17, is on Afghanistan’s all-girls robotics team, named the Afghan Dreamers; her teammate Somaya Farqui’s father...
KABUL, April 26 (Xinhua) -- A team of six Afghan girls who won recognition at an international robotics contest has started to build low-cost ventilators as the coronavirus pandemic is on the rise in the country. "The world is facing a health crisis. The world is...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — On most mornings, Somaya Farooqi and four other teen-age girls pile into her dad’s car and head to a mechanic’s workshop. They use back roads to skirt police checkpoints set up to enforce a lockdown in their city of Herat, one...
A teenaged robotics team is on the hunt for bright sparks to take part in a global competition. The club, which will meet on Thursdays after school and Saturday afternoons, will be trained for an international robotics competition against teams from around the world later this...
Connectech is inviting “anyone interested in robotics, engineering, and technology who has passion, can be dedicated, committed and disciplined enough to represent the Island internationally at the Fourth Annual FIRST Global robotics competition in 2020.” A spokesperson said, “Fresh off the heels of their successful debut...
The official opening of Vietnam STEAM Challenge 2020 took place in FPT University in Hoa Lac campus in Hanoi on January 7 with total price of VND2 billion (US$ 86,319) Participating in the Vietnam STEAM Challenge, students will have a chance to apply their math knowledge...
(Translated from Spanish) An innovative project that emerged three years ago excites thousands of Misiones boys who seek to disembark in the world of technology by playing different roles and working on projects that combine artificial intelligence, computer programming, electronics and other disciplines. The School of Robotics...
THAILAND (WHEC) — Thirteen years ago News10NBC featured Brockport senior Justin Worboys as our student-athlete of the week. Now, he's making a global impact. Worboys has been teaching science at the American School of Bangkok for the past three years. During his first year teaching in Thailand,...
A group of Indigenous students recently returned from a trip to Dubai where they competed against 189 countries in a robot building competition. The brothers were part of Team Canada that took part in the FIRST Global challenge. [See post for video.] --> Full Story ...
The FIRST Global Challenge is known for being the “most exciting competition for robotics in the world.” On a quest to empower the globe’s youth to be a part of the generation that will change the world, FGC is not just about robots. Dean Kamen, founder...
(Translated from Portuguese) Angola took part in the Robotics World Cup 2019 in October. The group of Angolans who represented in the Robotics World Cup in Dubai belongs to Arotech (Angola Robotics and Technology), young people who came together to inspire Angolan students and arouse interest...
(Translated from Catalan) Andorra stands among the best in the world in robotics thanks to the great role of the national robotics team that finished in the 15th position of the FIRST Global Challenge held in Dubai, an international competition in which 189 countries participated this year. The national robotics team...
(Translated from French) Burkina Faso took part for the second time this year in the FIRST Global Challenge, an international robotics competition that brings together young people aged 14 to 18 from around the globe every year. The Burkina team of five young people, Jade, Cheick, Flore,...
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James and Lachlan teamed up with their robotics partners, Grace Lutheran College, and took part in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Global Competition (FGC) in Dubai. The challenge brought together 191 countries, each sending one team of high school students,...
https://www.facebook.com/QouChannel/videos/539710153260906/ A Palestinian student team wins an international robot competition with Khalil Dar Omar, the winning team coach with Sarah Saleh, the team supervisor....
The Greek National Robotics Team “FIRST GLOBAL Challenge Team Greece» represented Greece in 2019 FIRST GLOBAL Challenge, held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on October 24-27, 2019. This is only the second year that Greece was represented officially in this competition. The Greek team ranked...
(Translated from Spanish) After leaving their hometown behind in Camasca, Intibucá, and embarking on a long journey of thousands of kilometers to Dubai to participate in the FIRST Global Challenge global competition, five students of the Santo Tomás de Aquino Departmental Institute did not imagine that...
https://www.facebook.com/RadioTravel/videos/593753941362517/ (Translated from Albanian) The National Robotics Team, which participated in the FIRST Global Challenge in Dubai, was at the Travel Club studios to share with us and all Radio Travel listeners their experience in the competition, also known as the World Robotics Olympics. The FIRST Global Challenge...
A team of five Syrian refugee teams has won the world’s biggest robotics competition in Dubai by building a robot to help clean the pollution from the ocean in a themed game. Team Hope led the four-team alliance in the final of the 2019 FIRST Global...
Team of five bags silver medal at the FIRST Global Challenge in Dubai. A TEAM of five young members, Sou Many, Ho Chanponleusophea, Cheang Thornsopanha, Keb Sreynaj and Pun Solita, aged between 15 to 16 years old, have won recognition with a silver medal in their...
The Ukrainian National team finished 10th among approximately 180 participants at the First Global Challenge, a yearly Olympics-style robotics competition, which took place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on October 24-27. Ukraine was represented by teenagers aged 15 to 18 years: Kharkivites Oleksandr Plotnytskiy, Victor Zhernokleyev,...
Cayman’s national robotics team took home two awards after competing in the FIRST Global Challenge in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, held 25-27 Oct. The team of 11 students spent weeks preparing for the international meeting of minds. This year’s competition theme was ‘Ocean Opportunities’, which focussed on...
SPRINGDALE -- The Tyson School of Innovation's robotics team returned last week with a silver medal from an overseas competition and new friendships from across the globe. Root Negative One represented the United States in this year's FIRST Global Challenge, held Oct. 24-27 in Dubai, United...
Congratulations to Guam's robotics team for a stellar performance in Dubai. In October, a team of about 10 high school students represented Guam in the FIRST Global robotics competition in Dubai, Arab Emirates. Team Guam joined thousands of other students at the Dubai Festival Arena for what...
Mina Matic, Sara Jasovic and Jelena Tomasevic are students of Gymnasium "Creative Feather", Jelena Zdravkovic is a student of Nis Electrotechnical "Mija Stanimirovic", and Tara Malovic is a Belgrade student who attends Serbian High School "Nikola Tesla" in Budapest. They are the team that represented Serbia...
Five young Central Africans took part in a robotics competition in Dubai from 24 to 27 October, which brought together more than 1,500 people from 191 countries. Their return to Bangui was triumphant. --> Full Story...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Seeking to bolster its image as a forward-looking metropolis, Dubai hosted the largest-ever international robotics contest this week, challenging young people from 190 countries to find solutions to global ocean pollution. Event organizers say their selection of Dubai as host reflects...
SPRINGDALE -- The Tyson School of Innovation's robotics team returned Monday with a silver medal from an overseas competition and new friendships from across the globe. Root Negative One represented the U.S. in this year's FIRST Global Challenge, held Oct. 24 through Sunday in Dubai, United...
(Translated from Macedonian) Macedonian high school students represented Macedonia at the FIRST Global Challenge held in Dubai this year from October 24th to 27th, winning the 65th place globally and second in the Balkans right behind Bosnia and Herzegovina, though the competition had a pivotal character Competitors...
ROBOTICS: A Guam robotics team came in fifth in the FIRST Global Challenge and third in the ranked playoffs in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. More than 1,500 students ages 14-18 from 191 countries participated in the competition from Oct. 24 to 27. The team includes home-schooled...
The Israel robotics delegation, consisting of five Megiddo regional high school students, which is sponsored by the Technion, won a silver medal at the Global Challenge FIRST Global Olympics held over the weekend in Dubai. The Israeli team qualified for the final stage in the 191-nation...
Baku, October 31, AZERTAC An Israeli delegation of high school students returned victorious from the FIRST Global Challenge held in Dubai this weekend, winning a silver medal for their robot which they built to aid the global effort to clean the oceans, according to TPS news...
Four French students are taking part in the FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai with the aim of finding a more efficient ways of cleaning plastic from the world’s oceans. Their mentor, Ronald Schildge, is a Computer Science teacher at the American School of Paris (ASP)....
Rabat – A Moroccan team composed of four high school students took part in the 2019 FIRST Global Challenge in Dubai. The event took place in the Emirati city between October 24 and October 27. The FIRST Global Challenge is a yearly international robotics challenge where...
MINSK, 29 October (BelTA) – A team from Belarus won the international robot technology competition FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai, BelTA learned from the official website of the competition. A total of 189 teams took part in the event. Belarus was represented by two school...
(Translated from Arabic) A young Moroccan team took part in the third edition of the FIRST Global Challenge Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Championship 2019, which was held in Dubai from October 24 to 27, in a project to clean beaches using robots. The project, which featured 1,500...
(Translated from Spanish) The team of Dominican students who participated in the World Robotics Competition in Dubai won the bronze medal for their performance during the day, which consisted of assembling a robot capable of solving environmental problems that provide opportunities for improvement to the world with climate change...
Muscat: Young people representing Oman at a global event that looks at finding solutions to environmental problems have said that their country is very fortunate to be rewarded with plenty of natural beauty and wildlife in its seas. Taking part at the FIRST Global Challenge in...
The Belarusian team won the world competition in robotics and programming. The annual FIRST Global Challenge Championship was held in Dubai. 189 teams participated in it. Our country was represented by 2 high school students and 3 students of BSU and BSUIR. This year environment...
Bahrain has expressed aspirations to build an underwater artificial reef in the Arabian Gulf using artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics as part of its Ocean Opportunities theme at the Dubai Future Foundation event, the ‘FIRST Global Challenge’, held on 24-27 October at Festival Arena. If approved,...
Five Syrian refugee teenagers have won a competition to build robots able to help clean up pollution in the world’s oceans. 'Team Hope' – Maher El Assawi, Ammar Kabbour, Salam Al Farekh, Youssef Shaaban, Amina Kabbour and supervisor Yamen Alnajjar – led the winning four-team alliance...
(Translated from French) A team of young Tunisian innovators under the age of 18, won the silver medal in international excellence from 192 participating countries at the 2019 2019 "first global 2019" Olympic Games held in Dubai from 24 to 27 October 2019 On the initiative...
(Translated from Arabic) The FIRST Global World Robotics and Artificial Intelligence championship, which was held in Dubai from 24 to 27 October, concluded yesterday with the participation of more than 1500 competitors from 191 countries, in the largest event in the world in the field of...
(Translated from Ukrainian) The Ukrainian team became one of the best at the FIRST Global Challenge in Robotics, held in Dubai (UAE) the day before. The national team of Ukraine won 10th place among 189 countries. Ukrainian children have built work that cleans the ocean of plastic. They were...
(Translated from Italian) Rapallo - The mayor of Rapallo Carlo Bagnasco and the president of the Municipal Council Mentore Campodonico met at the Fortunato Liceti Institute the students who successfully participated in the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge in Dubai. In the assembly hall, where the «Hackathons» were taking place, the project marathons between groups...
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Mon. Oct. 28, 2019: A team of 10 teens, aged 15-18, struck gold in Dubai for their country and the CARICOM region Sunday, making history. The youth from the South American CARICOM nation of Guyana won the Albert Einstein gold medal...
DUBAI, 27th October, 2019 (WAM) -- Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs and the Future and Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai Future Foundation, has said that the UAE is a global platform for knowledge exchange and a...
Dubai: Team Hope led the winning four-team alliance to a dramatic victory, in the grand final of the FIRST Global Challenge 2019, in Dubai. The third edition of the annual robotics competition — the first to be hosted outside the Americas — drew the participation of...
DUBAI, 27th October, 2019 (WAM) -- Following a tumultuous three weeks for their country, in the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis, Team Japan is grateful for the opportunity to dive into their shared passion for robotics and keep their minds occupied during the global robotics and...
The team with 8 wins and 1 loss at the moment is 6th in the overall ranking in a total of 188 countries around the world! The Greek National Robotics Team participating in the Dubai Olympics these days and qualifying for the final that will be...
DUBAI, 26th October, 2019 (WAM) -- His passion for programming and robotics, and his dream to develop his skills in Artificial Intelligence, AI, motivated Amjad Hamed to lead the Palestinian team to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai. "Participating in this global tournament...
(MENAFN - Saudi Press Agency) Dubai, Oct 26, 2019, SPA -- A Saudi team participated in the World Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Championship "the FIRST Global Challenge", which was organized by the Dubai Future Foundation, during the period from 25 to 27 October 2019, with...
DUBAI, 26th October, 2019 (WAM) -- Masterminded by Dean Kamen, the third FIRST Global Challenge being hosted in Dubai has brought more than 1,500 students from 191 countries together to invent robotics that can tackle marine and ocean-life problems At one time, technologies invented by...
DUBAI, 26th October, 2019 (WAM) -- The Afghanistan booth at the FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai is packed, with hardly any space to move with the teenaged all-girl Afghan Dreamers team being filmed for a documentary and being trailed everywhere by a camera crew...
DUBAI, 26th October, 2019 (WAM) -- Members of Geared-Up Girls have been lugging their robot, Shakti (the Sanskrit word for power), around in a suitcase all morning for practice at Festival Arena, frantically adding tweaks to improve the consistency and reliability of the prototype. The all-girl...
Dubai: Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to solve real-life problems has become part of the UAE education system, the Minister of Education said on the sidelines of the ‘2019 FIRST Global Challenge’ in Dubai on Saturday. Hussain Ebrahim Al Hammadi said students in grades 11 and 12, in...
Team Jamaica Robotics, which comprises high school students from Jamaica, is set to compete in what has been called the “first global Olympics,” the FIRST GLOBAL Challenge 2019 at the Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai. The tournament runs from October 24 through 27. The team will...
DUBAI, 25th October, 2019 (WAM) -- 17-year-old Abigail Herrera and her four other teammates known as Root Negative One, are representing the United States after having won the top honors at the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championships in Houston - known as the Inspire Award....
The third edition of a major international robotics competition kicked off at Festival Arena in Dubai on Friday. More than 1,500 contestants from 191 countries are expected to take part in the 2019 FIRST Global Challenge. This year’s theme – "Ocean Opportunities" – focuses on creating robots...
Dubai: The Dubai Festival Arena erupted in cheers on Friday as enthusiastic students from 191 countries battled it out in the FIRST Global Challenge to recover “trash from the seas” using robots. This year’s Challenge, an annual international robotics and artificial intelligence competition being held for...
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, said that Dubai continues to cement its position as a global hub for major international events, thanks to its extensive expertise and advanced infrastructure. Dubai's hosting of...
Dubai: Seven-time Grammy Award winning musician and education advocate will.i.am performed live at the opening ceremony of the 2019 FIRST Global DXB Challenge on Thursday. The global gathering of creative young minds in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), kicked off on Thursday at...
(Translated from Spanish) The winning team of the Robotics Cup, organized by the Ministry of Education and Innovation of the City of Buenos Aires together with Educabot, a provider of educational technology solutions, will travel this week to the city of Dubai to compete in the World...
Afghanistan has made great progress over the past two decades toward empowering women, strengthening democracy, improving access to health care and providing education to millions of children. International donors have had a direct impact on the lives of many Afghans, offering us opportunities for economic...
(Translated from Thai) October 14, Bangkok, Thailand — Thailand will be sending its first team of representatives in the global robotics competition, "The 2019 FIRST Global Challenge", themed "Ocean Opportunities", which aims to raise awareness of ocean pollution and encourage collaboration in order to solve these challenges...
This is the first time this event is being held outside of the Americas. This Global event brings together talented youth with a passion for STEM to address environmental issues Crown Prince of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of The...
Several Alberta students are preparing for an opportunity for a lifetime — this October, the IndigeSTEAM team will head to Dubai to compete on behalf of Canada in an international robotics competition. The FIRST Global event swill be a chance for the team to show off...
(Translated from Georgian) Being well-known robot Game of the international competition of the "FIRST Global" - the robot to travel Mzia preparing. Last year, the team and the robot Vano 186 countries took the third place. This year, "Mzia" will try to improve the result of...
Washington, DC – A National Team Jamaica Robotics, comprising high school students, coaches and a chaperone, will travel to Dubai, United Arab Emirates to represent the island at the third edition of the 2019 FIRST Global Challenge. The Jamaican robotics team will once again go head-to-head...
(Translated from Slovak) The robot can collect and fire balls. The task is to get it to the so-called reduction station or processing boat. Kosice, October 8 (TASR) - With Alexander, the high school team will go to the third annual International Robotics Olympics FIRST Global Challenge 2019...
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Ever wonder how robots would do in the Olympics? Dubai is getting ready to host the largest Olympic-style robotics competition in the world, and it’s all for an environmental cause. The 2019 FIRST Global challenge kicks off on Thursday October 24 until Sunday October 27 at...
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(Translated from Albanian) The FIRST Global Challenge is an annual robotics competition that serves to showcase young people's passion for science, technology, engineering and math, which will be held this year in Dubai, October 24-17. Like about 200 countries around the world, thanks to UBT, Kosovo will...
Ever year, the FIRST Global challenge gathers talented students from around the world, tasking them with solving global crises using robotics. Now, the Indian team going to the Robot Olympics will, for the first time, see an all-girl team representing the country. The team this time around...
Since 2017, FIRST Global Challenge has been bringing together young bright minds from all over the world to foster a passion for STEM education A Bangladeshi high school team will be participating in the FIRST Global Challenge, an international robotics event that is held every year...
(Translated from Spanish) Five youth from four schools in Puerto Rico will represent our island at the FIRST Global Challenge Robot Olympics, where they will compete with 200 teams from different countries around the world. The event will take place from October 24 to 27 in Dubai,...
The National Robotics Team of the Republic of Moldova will participate, on October 24-27, 2019, in the third edition of the international robotics Olympiad - FIRST Global Challenge. The competition will be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and will bring together over 175 teams...
(Translated from Moldovan) The National Robotics Team of the Republic of Moldova will participate, on October 24-27, in the third edition of the international robotics Olympiad - FIRST Global Challenge. The competition will be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and will bring together over 175...
SPRINGDALE -- Community organizations and individuals have pledged thousands of dollars to help send a Tyson School of Innovation robotics team overseas to an international competition next month. Root Negative One will represent the United States at this year's FIRST Global Challenge in Dubai, United Arab...
(Translated from Serbian) Five of them, high school students, are going to the competition - the FIRST Global Robotics Olympiad in Dubai. They are the best students in their high schools, not nerds, and they are on social networks, but the world around them is critically and...
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(Translated from Polish) For four years they have represented our province and country around the world, in October they are flying to Dubai for the next championship. The Spice Gears Team talked about their activities in the Marshal's Office. She presented here as part of the...
A team of young scientists is scheduled to participate in the First Global Challenge 2019 taking place on the 21st- 28 October in Dubai. This year’s challenge is themed “Ocean Opportunities”. The aspiring young scientists from Delta High School in Windhoek are Dennis de Abreu, Giovanni...
Minister within the Ministry of Communities, Annette Ferguson yesterday handed over a cheque of $1M to the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Guyana team, which will be representing the country at this year’s ‘First Global Robotic’ competition in Dubai. “This year hopefully, we are looking...
A group of youth from Limón will represent Costa Rica with the participation of its robotics team in the First Global Challege 2019, which will take place this year in Dubai United Arab Emirates. Joustin Romero, Johary Hunter, Cassidy Recio Brenes, Keissy Nickengs Hamblin and Ellián...
Translated from Spanish. Students from all provinces will participate in the Robotics Cup to reach the Dubai World Cup. From August 29 to 31, the City of Buenos Aires will host the 2019 Robotics Cup, a contest that will define the team that will travel to the FIRST...
(Translated from Polish) Asseco became the main sponsor of the team at the FIRST Global Challenge robotic Olympiad. The event will take place October 24-27, 2019 in Dubai. The Polish team is the Spice Gears team from Kraśnik. This is another Asseco initiative within the Asseco for the Future...
A local robotics team will once again represent South Africa internationally as they gear up for the FIRST Global robotics challenge later this year. The robotics competition will be held in Dubai from 24 to 27 October. The team, made up of high school students from Centurion,...
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[vc_video link='https://youtu.be/oEWmGD0mXVk'] A group of five MCAST students are appealing for donations in aim of representing Malta in an IT and robotics competition taking place in Dubai. In order to participate, the youth need to raise €10,000. The students, currently studying Software Development and Robotics at MCAST, told Newsbook.com.mt that...
Translated from Spanish. A group of students from different high schools in the province came out in the first place with their robot named "Julito", which can perform cleaning tasks in polluted oceans. The team will compete in October in a world tournament in Dubai. A huge...
A group of 10 students who will be representing Seychelles at the 2019 FIRST Global Robotic competition to be held in Dubai from October 24-27 have received a robot kit from the National Institute for Science, Technology and Innovation. This was during a short presentation at the Blue...
Translated from Dutch. This year the Young Help Suriname (YHS) foundation is also planning to allow Suriname to participate in the 2019 FIRST Global 'Robotics' Challenge (FGC) for the third time. The foundation has recently been able to successfully register our country to participate in this competition...
Students from Woodford International School have been selected to represent Solomon Islands in the 2019 First Global Robotics Competition in Dubai. The First Global Challenge is a truly international robotics event with more than 175 nations across the world traveling to Dubai to participate. Participating teams are...
Five students will design and build robots to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition with a cause in Dubai. FIRST Global is a non-profit organisation that promotes science and technology education and careers, through Olympics-style robotics competitions. The students will have to design three robots...
Eight (8) students selected from four secondary schools in Suva were part of the first round of the “FIRST Global Challenge” at The University of the South Pacific’s (USP) Laucala Campuson 16 August 2019. The schools are Suva Grammar School, YatSen Secondary School, Jai Narayan College and MGM...
The Tyson Manufacturing Automation Center officially opened in downtown Springdale today as company officials introduced the facility to attendees from across Northwest Arkansas. Tyson Foods, which has made a series of investments into downtown Springdale over the past few years, created the new, state-of-the-art facility to...
A bunch of talented Queenstown high school students have been selected to represent New Zealand at the "Olympics" of robotics. Wakatipu High School students Tannin Heeley, 14, Monique Rider, 13, Pearce Summerfield, 14, Josh Nyberg, 14 and Minnie Tam, 14, will compete in the FIRST Global Challenge in Dubai, in October. Rider said the team,...
Composed of five students, aged 16 to 18, and two adult mentors, a group leader and coach, and a technical mentor, First Global - Team Angola says it is motivated to do differently at the event beginning next October. . Cristóvão Mário Cacombe, one of the...
The Cayman Islands will send 11 students to Dubai to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge robotics event from 24‑27 Oct. The Cayman Islands National Robotics Team, which was formed from the field of competitors at the recent Rover Ruckus competition includes Caylem Hill and Jack McGregor...
Cayman’s 2019 national robotics team is getting ready for the FIRST Global Challenge in Dubai. The students were qualified to be on the national team following their participation in “Rover Ruckus” held in May, as well as, a rigorous selection process. The theme of the FIRST Global Challenge...
Five Nigerian students drawn from secondary schools across the country have been selected to represent Nigeria at the next FIRST Global Robotics Olympics in Dubai this October. The students; Kosi Ugoji, Isaac Ibidun, Gbemileke Ogunrayewa, Sonia Bendrewere and Toluwaniyin Ojo-Osagie were selected from a try-out session...
Harvard; one of the world’s most renowned Ivy League Schools is known to be the breeding ground for some of the world’s brightest minds, and Sela Kasepa – a 21-year-old Zambian student at the time – waltzed her way into the institution with head held...
TAMCC Robotics Club competed in 2017, placing 109 out of 160 countries In 2018, Team Grenada placed 93 in Mexico In 2019, Team Grenada seeks funding to participate in Dubai For the last two years, the students representing the TA Marryshow Community College Robotics Club...
HERAT, Afghanistan — A 2017 wall calendar dangled from a nail over Kawsar Roshan’s bed on the otherwise blank wall of her room. “Best year for me” she had written, in curly script, above aerial photos of lakes and waterfalls. She drew a smiley-face next...
Impossible Robotics – the Dutch student/inventors who compete in the FIRST Global international robotics Challenge – have learned that Science can solve humanity’s problems when the world’s youth work together. That ethos lies at the heart of the FIRST organisation which is a not-for-profit charity fostering a global...
This Women’s History Month, we’re elevating and celebrating the women who broke barriers and showed the world what they’re made of. Whilst research has long supported the truth that fewer women pursue careers in STEM than men, this norm is changing slowly but surely. According to...
His Excellency Mohammed Al Gergawi, UAE Minister of Cabinet Affairs and the Future, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Managing Director of Dubai Future Foundation, announced that Dubai will host the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge in October 2019. It marks the first time that...
An international Olympics style robot-making competition is coming to Dubai this year. Schoolchildren from across the globe will be challenged to design robots that can help solve pressing global issues such was water security and energy efficiency. More than 2,000 pupils from 193 countries are set to...
Dubai - MENA Herald: His Excellency Mohammed Al Gergawi, UAE Minister of Cabinet Affairs and the Future, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Managing Director of Dubai Future Foundation, today announced that Dubai will host the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge in October 2019. It...
Glenda McTaggart would like to see Cayman students take over the world of robotics, or at least play a part in the burgeoning technical field. But, she said, it will require change. “So far, robotics are not part of the school curriculum,” said Ms. McTaggart, education...
Romanian children have always performed well at international olympiads, and this year was no different. Romania had great results at the 2018 International Geography Olympiad, held in Canada, the International Math Olympiad in Cluj-Napoca as well as two robotics competitions, in Thailand and Mexico. FIRST Global...
Translated from Greek. The President of the Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, today awarded the robotics teams that were distinguished in competitions during an event organized by the eduACT non-profit association eduACT at the XANTH building in Thessaloniki. Mr. Pavlopoulos was guided at eduACT's premises and spoke with volunteers...
[See original post for video] I love asking questions. As a child, I questioned just about everything. Why was my country different than the ones I saw on television shows and in movies? Why was my gender an obstacle to me becoming a leader someday? Why...
Translated from Spanish. Today more than ever there are adolescent women who are participating in educational robotics. They occupy a leadership position and excel in international competitions, they are mentors and they open opportunities for the generations to come. Here, four of them tell how robotics...
Translated from Spanish. Teams of students from more than 190 countries, including Peru, spent three days competing - but also collaborating - in the robotics tournament " FIRST Global Challenge ", held in Mexico City. This year the theme of the competition was "Energy Impact" and the robot teams participated...
It’s always nice to read of positive technology initiatives in the UK for the young – so check out UK students finishing in third place at the ‘Robotics Olympics’ in Mexico last month. Specifically, an alliance of three nations featuring the UK team came third for...
Durban - Team South Africa has broken a record at the FIRST Global robotics challenge in Mexico. One of the Springbot members and team captain, Mikhaeel Reddy said. “We won the Walt Disney award and received gold for our creativity, imagination and innovation. "We are still reeling from...
Spending their summer building robots and competing internationally, Guam's public school students achieve milestones in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), becoming the first high school robotics team to represent Guam on the global stage. It's not your typical summer travel, these kids packed a robot....
Guam – A team of high school students from various schools just returned from successfully competing in a robotics competition in Mexico City, Mexico. Last week they were honored during a ceremony at the GDOE headquarters. Led by GDOE Career Pathyway Lead Dr. Leah Beth Naholowaa, the...
Translated from Spanish. Omar García Falla, Natalia Charry Vargas and Bryant Hernández Perdomo designed and built a robot to generate clean energy and combat climate change. Their prototype represented Colombia in the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge competition and took second place. When Omar García Falla, Natalia Charry Vargas...
Translated from Spanish. The FIRST Global Challenge international robotics olympiad ended with emotional moments that left many lessons and unique experiences among participants from more than 160 countries. This event was held at the Mexico City Arena from August 16 to 18, in which the Mexican team, composed entirely of students from the...
PUNE: While most of the country is focused on the exploits of its athletes at the Asiad in Indonesia, a group of intrepid students from the city pocketed gold at another international event. The event — a robotics competition in Mexico — saw the five students...
Translated from Spanish. Honduras among the winners in the robotic Olympics 2018 FIRST Global Challenge The team that represented Honduras in this important competition won the silver medal in the Zhang Heng prize in the Engineering Design category. This is an award given to those teams whose design...
[VIDEO] Adrian Phillips-Hernaez, Ethan Cronier and Joe Allom-Perez recently finished 23rd in overall points out of 161 teams at the FIRST Global International Robotics Challenge. Mr. Cronier and Mr. Allom-Perez on Tuesday (28 August) joined Cayman 27’s Kevin Morales live on set to talk about the competition...
A team of UK students has been hailed for 'exceeding expectations' after finishing third in the FIRST Global Challenge in Mexico - a STEM-inspired international robotics competition. The impressive talents of the team - six high school students selected by FIRST Tech Challenge UK & Ireland...
Translated from Nepalese. The Nepali team has been competing in the International Robot Olympics 'FIRST Global Challenge' organized in Mexico. In the competition, Shishir Vishwakarma, Earth Chowdhary, Swachin Shrestha and meaningful Sen, are participating in the competition. Timothy Singh, secretary of the Robotics Association of Nepal,...
Montgomery County students powered a robot, G-Wiz, to win all eight of its matches during a four-day competition in Mexico City earlier this month. The FIRST Global Challenge was held Aug. 15-18 in Mexico City. The Wizards.exe team, based in Rockville, was chosen to represent the United...
The all-girl Afghan robotics team returned home on Sunday after wrapping up a successful tour of Mexico. The robots created by the girls won a major award at FIRST Global Challenge 2018 robot competition between high school students from around the world. “We won the safety award...
Montgomery County students powered a robot, G-Wiz, to win all eight of its matches during a four-day competition in Mexico City earlier this month. The FIRST Global Challenge was held Aug. 15-18 in Mexico City. The Wizards.exe team, based in Rockville, was chosen to represent the United...
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Muscat: In the heart of Mexico City, student teams from more than 175 countries – including Oman – spent three days competing and collaborating at the international robotics competition, “FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Global Challenge”. This year’s theme was “Energy Impact,”...
Translated from Spanish. Honduras represented by Adriana, William, Erick and Maudy This group of young catrachos, students from schools of the departments of Intibucá and Colón, who have represented Honduras with dignity, obtained the award for the Second Best Robot of this competition, carrying with them the silver medal in this category " Design...
Translated from Arabic. Mauritania participated in the International Robotics Championship organized by FIRST Global, with 190 countries participating. The Mauritanian team consists of two young men and a girl who participated through the Mauritanian business incubator HADINA RIMTIC. Team members are: Soumeya Hamady (13 years old) from the school...
Aurel, a robot designed by five Slovak secondary school students, is not leaving this year’s robot Olympics with empty hands. It was granted the Judges Award – Technical, for the recognition of the merits of a team’s unique efforts, performance or dynamics. Slovakia’s representatives at the...
Once again, Mexico hosted a world-class international event: the World Robotics Championship, the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge, which was held for the first time outside the United States. During the course of three days, more than a thousand young people from more than 180 countries, as...
We would like to invite you to stand up and join us in applauding a small group of smart, enthusiastic youth, who recently visited Mexico City, Mexico, to proudly represent Antigua and Barbuda and participate in the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge. The members of Team...
Translated from Arabic. A team of young inventors from the First Skills Club of Sfax participated in the Olympic Games of Robotics in Mexico from 16 to 18 of August 2018. The team includes 4 girls and a boy aged between 15 and 18 years old. They...
Translated from Romanian. Among the six youngsters who represented Romania at the Olympics in Mexico, Darius Lorinczi was the "brain" of the robot. Along with another colleague he handled the robot to meet all the requirements. "I honestly do not realize that we have won so many things,...
Five Guam high school students recently returned from an international Olympics-style robotics competition in Mexico City, where they ranked 53 out of 168 country teams and won four out of eight games against worldwide competitors. “We are a really young team compared to a lot of the other...
Translated from Spanish. Team Chile is the team that represented us from August 15 to 18 at Robotics "World Cup", the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge, in Mexico City. This event brings together young people from more than 160 countries to solve energy efficiency problems with robots created...
Representing the United States, the eight-member team of high-school robotics experts who call themselves Wizards.exe, left the FIRST Global Challenge 2018 robotics competition in Mexico on Sunday, with three large medals and a new appreciation for people who live in countries they previously knew little...
Those NEMO radios could be child’s play for a group of students who has just returned from Mexico City. Students from the Belize High School represented Belize at this year’s FIRST Global Challenge 2018. The aim of the competition was to demonstrate how science and...
Translated from Armenian. The regional team of Armmat Engineering Laboratory Network, which recently took part in the FIRST Global Robotics Competition in Mexico, was included in the top 48 countries (ranked 15th) according to the 180 participating countries and passed to the final stage. According to...
In North America, the Zimbabwean flag also flew high. A team of five high school students, namely Bennedictus Chingiodza (St George’s), Tamuda Chimhanda (St Ignatius), Danai Hakata (Tynwald High School), Gabriel Matemba (Harare High) and Letticia Vanganayi (Harare High) went to the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge...
A team of high school students from the city of Dimona in the Negev Desert won fourth place while representing Israel in an international robotics competition last week in Mexico City. The team from Dimona’s Lehman High School, which calls itself ‘Black Magic 11901,’ sent twelve participants...
Maldivian students won second place along with Iceland and Colombia at the FIRST Global ‘Robotics Olympics International competition held in Mexico. A total of 190 countries took part in this competition aimed at youngsters between 14 to 18 years. Competing from the Maldives were 15-year-old Yameen Yooshaau of...
Three weeks after a group of young Nigerians won a robotics contest in China, another group of Nigerian students have reportedly won two bronze medals at the 2018 First Global Robotics Olympiad (GRO) in Mexico. The Nigerian team according to NAN won the medals in the...
https://youtu.be/9qgEypYXg8E A worldwide challenge with a difference. That was the FIRST Global Challenge which took place in Mexico and was attended by Presentation College students, Avidesh Marajh and Raydon Baboolal. Teams had to design a robot to complete engineering tasks to achieve energy efficiency. The boys say the...
Druk-Bot, the robot representing Bhutan, lost in the quarter-finals in the FIRST Global Robotics competition in Mexico held last week. The Druk-Bot was ranked 17th out of 161 participating countries. The robot, which resembles a dragon, was developed by three youth at the FabLab Bhutan. FabLab Bhutan...
Maldivian students have won second spot in an international robotics competition in Mexico. The trio competed against teams from 175 countries in the FIRST Global Challenge. The Maldives’ robot was made by teenagers Yameen Ushau from Majeedhiyya School, Ridha Anees of Jamaaludhin School and Hassan Nasih from...
MEXICO CITY — A group of four Vietnamese students brought home a bronze medal for their impressive robotic design at the “2018 FIRST Global Challenge” international robotics competition in Mexico last week. Besides the medal, the Vietnamese team was ranked 12th out of 165 teams joining in...
Mexico’s robotics team placed 12th overall at the second edition of the FIRST Global Challenge international competition but didn’t go home empty-handed, claiming the silver medal in one of the event’s most prestigious categories. In recognition of its performance throughout the three-day event held in Mexico City...
Mexico City, Mexico — Mexico takes home a silver medal in the Robotics Olympiad after their team showed high performance in the first Global Challenge. The team, which is made up of Frida Sofía Sosa, Santiago García, Ángel Berdeja, Herman Sánchez and Jorge García, all Tec...
(MENAFN - Asia Times) Four Vietnamese with a passion for robotics engineered a bronze medal at the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge in Mexico City, with their team winning seven of the eight games in the qualifying round. Drawn from students at the private FPT High School, the team ranked 12th...
The robotics team of Georgia successfully achieved third place among 193 countries in the International Competition “FIRST Global Challenge” held in Mexico, according to Imedinews. "The real demonstration of non-radar and talent in Mexico, despite the difficulties of strength, intimacy, positive mindset, enthusiasm, and competitiveness," states...
Arotech, an initiative of Angolan students that encourages interest in new technologies, was selected to participate in the international robotics Olympiads (FIRST Global) happening in Mexico City on 16 - 18 in August of 2018. This event gives student delegates a first-hand experience with involvement with...
From Australia to Vietnam, over 150 teams featuring the brightest young minds gathered in Mexico City on Friday (August 17) for the FIRST Global robotics Olympics. This international competition aims to ignite youth passion for science, technology, engineering and mathematics in the field of robotics. International teams...
Competition ran high on the final day of this year's quarter-finals Robotics World Cup, which drew 700 international contestants to Mexico City Arena for the three-day challenge. The 'FIRST Global Challenge 2018' featured the next generation of young engineers and robotics technicians from 193 countries. Aged 14 to 18,...
Team Guam, made up of students from Okkodo High School and Simon Sanchez High School, is in Mexico City to compete in the FIRST Global International Competition. Team Guam won its first match Friday morning at the competition in Mexico City. The theme for the 2018...
Addressing the opening ceremony, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto stressed that the students’ talent, creativity and renovation spirit will contribute to the social development and put forth solutions to current global issues. The contest, themed “Energy Impact”, draws the participation of 165 teams across the world. Three...
A Vietnamese team is participating in the “2018 FIRST Global Challenge” international robotics competition for junior and high school students, which opened in Mexico on August 16. Addressing the opening ceremony, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto stressed that the students’ talent, creativity and renovation spirit will...
Belize is proudly being represented at the FIRST Global Robotics Olympics in Mexico. Students from Belize High School, Belize City, and Ocean Academy of Caye Caulker are participating in the competition. The event started on August 15 and ends tomorrow, August 18, 2018. Students from 193 countries are participating. The theme...
Translated from Uzbek. The representatives of Uzbekistan are among the young robotics technicians from 180 countries around the world at the FIRST Global Challenge competition held in Mexico City, Mexico, on August 16-18. This event is held annually in various countries, with young people from all over...
Translated from Spanish. Until tomorrow the "FIRST Global Challenge Robotics Olympiad" takes place in Mexico, in which young people from 175 countries participate. Yaco Chumillo and Santiago Camesasca, including students of the Liceo No. 1 of Mercedes, and Ignacio García, Belén Camesasca and Sahiara Mar, students of...
As technology takes an increasing role in daily life, countries are competing to be at the forefront of the industry. Lucky for Myanmar, a team of five talented university students are representing the nation in the FIRST Global Robotics Olympics held in Mexico from August 15...
Three Maldivian students have travelled to Mexico to take part in a global robotics competition. Their creation, Rani Kanbaa (queen lady), is remote-controlled and can carry and transport objects. It was built in two months with equipment provided by tournament organisers FIRST Global. The robot was made...
Translated from Spanish. Team Chile, supported by the "Ingenious: science and technology for all" program and the Fab Lab of the Catholic University is representing the country. On Monday 13, four youth and a mentor traveled to Mexico City to represent the country in the world's largest...
Translated from Spanish. Chubb announced today that it is sponsoring two teams in the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge, the annual Robotics "Olympics" on an international level. The teams supported by Chubb, from Argentina and Ecuador, join representatives from more than 150 countries, which compete this year in Mexico...
Three first-year students from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Malawi—The Polytechnic are attending this year’s FIRST Global robotics competition, which is being held in Mexico City, Mexico. The students—Gerard Magaleta, Tamanda Champiti, and Patience Muhunya—arrived in Mexico City on Tuesday, August 14, 2018,...
Members of the Conroe Independent School District “Texas Torque” team showed their team spirit and sense of camaraderie this week, stepping in to save the day for another robotics team competing on the world stage. The “Texas Torque” robotics team was already planning to send four...
Three students attending the Malta College for the Arts, Science and Technology (Mcast) are in Mexico City representing the country for the second edition of the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge this week. The students are Aaron Josef Farrugia, Monique Micallef and Darren Farrugia. They are following an...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Tomorrow, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry will travel to Mexico City to attend the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge. During his visit, the Secretary will also meet with both current and incoming Mexican government officials to discuss the continuity of strong bilateral...
A team composed of Jamaican students from four island high schools will compete in the FIRST Global Challenge, an event described as a “robotics Olympics,” to be held in Mexico City. The students from Calabar, Immaculate, Jamaica College, and Kingston College will join with teams...
TWO girls will represent Papua New Guinea in in Mexico City in an international robot Olympics for high schoolers. The pair from Lae Secondary School in Morobe will compete in the Olympics For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Global Challenge from Wednesday to...
Team Nepal is finally ready with all the preparations for Robot Olympics- FIRST Global Challenge. Robotics Association of Nepal in association with Nepal Engineer’s Association proudly presents Team Nepal. The FIRST Global robot Olympics is an annual culmination of focused STEM/robotic involvement of exponentially increasing student...
A team of five Bangladeshi students will participate in an international robotics competition titled the “FIRST Global Challenge” to be held in Mexico City this month. The participants are Arman Khasru and Laleh-naz Bergman Hossain from Sunbeams School; Razeen Ali and Anahita Anoara from Sir John...
I could hardly wait to join Tuesday’s gathering at the department of Education. Three teenage students were scheduled to test-run the robot they had built to compete in the annual FIRST Global Robotics Olympics—a competition for high school-aged participants who work together to solve global...
A five-member team of adolescent girls and boys will take part in the international robotics competition titled ‘FIRST Global Challenge’ to be held in Mexico City, capital of Mexico from August 15 to 18. The team will leave here on Sunday to join the event where...
Five Nigerian students, representing the country at the FIRST Global Robotic Olympiad, on Saturday boasted they were coming home with three gold medals at the competition. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the competition is scheduled to hold in Mexico from August 13th to August...
Over 150 teams from across the globe will gather at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico, from August 16 - 18 for the FIRST Global Challenge (FGC) 2018. FGC is an annual international robotics competition, which takes place in a different nation each year. Themed...
Translated from Spanish. Omar García Falla, 19 years old, Natalia Charry Vargas, 16, and Bryant Hernández Perdomo, 15, are the three SENA Huila apprentices who will represent Colombia at the FIRST Global Challenge robotics olympiad. "The efforts are rewarded and this invitation, which includes a scholarship for...
St Kitts and Nevis (WINN): Five students from the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College have once again been invited to participate in the FIRST Global Robotics Olympics in Mexico City from August 15 - 18, 2018. The Information and Technology Department students selected to represent the federation...
Translated from Albanian. From August 15 to August 18 in Mexico will host the "Olympics of Robotics", with 160 participants, including Albania. Our country is represented by a group of passionate students who have built the robot "Kastrioti 1". Students, invited to the News 24 news studio, have...
Translated from Catalan. A group of students from the Andorran School will participate in the second edition of the FIRST Global Challenge. The robot competition will bring together teams of 175 nations in Mexico, from 16 to 18 August. Despite being the first time they will participate, they...
SALT LAKE CITY — A team of Navajo high school students from a remote town in southern Utah is building a robot to represent North America in an international robotics competition. The teenagers have worked all summer on the project, scheduling meetings between long drives to...
Tata Technologies, a global engineering services company, is sponsoring the Indian team at the FIRST Global Challenge (FGC) 2018 where students from 180+ nations will come together to participate in an international robotics Olympics. The event is focused on promoting the next generation of Science,...
Saint Lucia will be participating in the annual FIRST Global Challenge – Robot Olympics under the theme “Energy Impact”. During the competition or challenge, shifting alliances of three nations will compete to fuel power plants, initiate renewable energy plants and build a resilient transmission network using...
Translated from Spanish. They put together a robot that managed to overcome all the challenges in the previous tests. A group of young people from the liceo 1 of Mercedes and the technical school Pedro Blanes Viale of that city decided to follow the computer professors Liliana...
Translated from Arabic. A team of young inventors from the First Skills Club of Sfax will participate in the Robotic Olympic Games to be held in Mexico from 16 to 18 August. Faten Khalafallah Hammouda, the president of the association, told Al-Shorouq Online that the team...
Translated from French. As part of the FIRST Global Challenge, the Olympic games of robotics that will take place from 16 August in Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, Gabon will be represented by the non-governmental organization Kab'oyeri, which operates in the digital field. Since 2017, the FIRST...
From Aug. 15-18, 2018 some high students from around the globe representing more than 100 countries will be competing against their peers at the First Global Challenge. The theme of the Robotics Olympics is “Energy” and the Olympics will have these students engaged in various...
The Cayman Islands robotics team heads off to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge, an Olympics-styled robotics contest. But for the boys participating in it, it’s more than a contest, it’s taking what they’ve learned in the classroom and bringing it to life. Those three...
Translated from Portuguese. City of Praia, 09 Aug (Inforpress) - The Industrial and Commercial School of Mindelo, São Vicente, will represent Cape Verde, from August 16 to 18, in Mexico City, Mexico, in the second edition of the International Robotics competition, called the "Firts Global Challenge"...
SALT LAKE CITY — A team of Navajo high school students from a remote town in southern Utah is building a robot to represent North America in an international robotics competition. The teenagers have worked all summer on the project, scheduling meetings between long drives to...
SALT LAKE CITY - A team of Navajo high school students from a remote town in southern Utah is building a robot to represent North America in an international robotics competition. The teenagers have worked all summer on the project, scheduling meetings between long drives to jobs...
Translated from Arabic. A team of young inventors from the First Skills Club of Sfax-Al Rahal will be on their way Saturday (August 11th, 2018) to Mexico to participate in the Olympic Games of robotics, the association's president Faten Khalafallah Hamouda said. The team includes four girls...
Time is winding down for Team Belize who is participating in what is called the “Olympics” of Robotics competition taking place between August 16 and 18 at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City. The group comprises students from Ocean Academy in Caye Caulker and Belize High School in Belize...
The kraken is a mythical monster capable of devouring whales and whole ships. The Kraken built by a team of Cayman Islands science students is somewhat less dangerous. Slightly smaller than a folding chair, the robotic vehicle, designed to pick up and transport small cardboard cubes,...
Rainbow City– In a beautiful and isolated desert in the southwestern tip of San Juan County, Utah, a FIRST Robotics team from Navajo Mountain High School is building a robot and practice field in preparation to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge. Team Naatsis’aan (#6546)...
With a flash of green light, a robot sputters and whizzes across the room, obeying the remote-control commands 15-year-old Xaviera Nguefo and her team send its way. It is a scene that would not look out of place in a futuristic sci-fi fantasy, but is instead...
Translated from Armenian. The students of "Armath" engineering laboratories will represent Armenia at the First Global Robotics Competition in Mexico on August 16-18. First Global is a global robot challenge, involving 14 to 18 year olds from around 160 countries. The aim of the competition is to unite...
International robotics competitions are based on the 14 challenges of engineering in the 21st century Mexico City, July 24, 2018.- FIRST Global, an international non-profit organization focused on the promotion of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, announced today that it seeks to develop a passion for...
Translated from Armenian. The students of “Armath” Engineering laboratories are set to represent Armenia at the FIRST Global International Robotics competition to be held on August 16-18 in Mexico City. As Mr. Karen Vardanyan, the Executive director of the Union of Information Technology Enterprises (UITE) informed...
Three among 11 Nigerian secondary school students have qualified to participate in this year’s World Adolescent Robotics competition, which holds this month in China. The China Association of Science and Technology has reached out to the three students who will be representing Nigeria at the competition. The...
The Department of Women's Affairs (DWA) has sponsored the SMART Sistas Program with an amount of Vt50,000. The Director of DWA, Mrs Dorosday Kenneth Dhressen acknowledged the SMART Sistas for giving the department the opportunity to be able to give towards the SMART Sistas program. "As partners...
Belize for the first time will be participating in a global robotics competition that takes place betweenAugust 15 and 18 at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City. The focus of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) event this year is “Energy Impact” and is considered the “Olympics”...
Translated from Spanish. Mexico -- The talent and ingenuity of the young Mexicans will once again meet to participate in the Robotics World Cup "FIRST Global Challenge 2018", which in its second edition will take place at the Mexico City Arena. And for this, as in the previous event,...
THREE form six students of Presentation College Chaguanas will be representing TT at the First Global Challenge in Mexico City, Mexico from August 16-18. The team-based international robotics competition will see the three students, Avidesh Marajh, Raydon Baboolal and Josef Gonzalez, flying TT’s national colours amongst...
Three secondary school students are to represent Nigeria at the World Adolescent Robotic Competition in China this July. The students – Tawakalitu Giwa, Oluwaseun Omotayo and Ayomide Adetunji are to fly Nigeria’s flag at the event organised by the China Association of Science and Technology. The students...
Ghana’s All-Girls Robotics team with support from STEMbees will be participating in the First Global Robotics Competition to be held in Mexico. The competion will take off in August, with Ghana joining over 150 nations in the challenge entitled “Energy Impact”. As part of the competition, each...
(Go to site for video) A small group of students at Presentation College Chaguanas will once again represent this country in a global robotics competition. Last year the group placed 16th out of 163 countries worldwide, in first Global's first Annual Robotics Olympics in Washington. Reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh...
https://youtu.be/io5vUD7R9mc Three Form Six students of Presentation College-Chaguanas will represent Trinidad and Tobago at the FIRST Global Challenge in Mexico City, Mexico from August 16th to18th. The team-based international robotics competition will see the three local students, Avidesh Marajh, Raydon Baboolal and Josef Gonzalez, flying the national...
The cocktail fundraiser in support of Ghana’s all-girls robotics team’s upcoming trip to Mexico City to participate in the FIRST Global international robotics competition was held on Monday, 9th July at the Carbon Luxury Lounge. The event was held in an effort to help the team...
A team of students from Cayman will travel to Mexico City next month to take part in what is billed as the “robotic Olympics.” This is the first time a Cayman team will attend the annual FIRST Global Challenge. The team includes Cayman Prep and High School...
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Translated from Spanish. The theme of the competition this year has to do with the "Energy Impact" and the teams must build a robot that fulfills different functions that simulate the operation of solar and power plants that, by making chain reactions, give energy access to...
Translated from Spanish. We present to you the promising young people who will represent the country in the FIRST Global Challenge 2018. FIRST Global is an international organization that is focused on promoting science, technology and collaboration to improve the environment. For this reason, the FIRST Global Challenge is held annually, a robotics competition in...
Translated from Slovak. Do you still remember what you did with your free time when you were 15 years old? Or what are you doing now? Was it wandering out with my friends? Books? Series? Music? Well, high school students from Žiar nad Hronom, Bratislava and Liptovský Mikuláš, who will represent Slovakia...
CITY OF MEXICO (Notimex) - From August 15 to 18, the First Global Challenge 2018 will be held in Mexico City, an event that will bring together young people from more than 160 countries to "solve energy efficiency problems with robots created by them," Grupo Salinas...
Translated from Arabic. A team of young inventors from the Association of the First Skills Club of Sfax will participate in the Olympic Games for Robotics, to be held in the coming month of August in Mexico, said the president of the association Faten Khalafallah Hamouda....
GS Hoy FIRST Global Challenge 2018, the most important robotics competition in the world, will gather this year at the Mexico City Arena of the capital of our country teams from more than 190 countries, between August 16 and 18, with the challenge to solve energy...
The young Mexicans Angel Berdeja, Jorge Garcia, Herman Sanchez, Santiago García and Frida Sosa were reported ready to participate in the Energy Impact competition at the FIRST Global Challenge 2018 Robotics World Championship, which will be held in CdMx. Around 1,300 young people between 14 and...
Ghana's all-girls Robotics team is receiving local support from media and corporate bodies as they prepare to participate in the FIRST Global Robotics Competition in Mexico City from August 15 to 18. Many of the corporate supporters will be in attendance at the cocktail fundraiser...
Translated from Spanish. A sucrense team made up of three schoolboys and their tutor was the winner of the 1st National Robotics Tournament that took place today, in Sucre, whose main prize is attending the World Robotics World Championship -- the FIRST Global Challenge, on behalf...
Translated from French. Young François Lovensky Carl Junior made a name for himself at the first edition of the FIRST Global Challenge. An international competition, initiated in 2017, aimed at young STEM enthusiasts, geeks from all over the world, during which he and his fellow high...
—Five Mexican youths will compete and make alliances with teams from other countries to build robots that solve energy efficiency problems— —Ricardo Salinas, host of the event, supports scientific and technological knowledge to promote wellbeing and progress— MEXICO CITY, June 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FIRST Global,...
Translated from French. Robotics is a sector of the future, according to FIRST Global and YUVA Mauritius. Three Mauritian teenagers have been selected to compete in an international robotics competition in Mexico City, Mexico next August. Three Mauritian teenagers keen on robotics will fly to Mexico City,...
Translated from Dutch. Suriname will again participate in the FIRST Global Challenge this year, which will be held from 15 to 18 August 2018 in Mexico City, Mexico. The goal of this competition, which is organized every year in another country, is to get more young people...
Translated from Spanish. With the support of the Public Library of Limón Mayor Thomas Benjamín Lynch, a group of young people from Limón will participate in the FIRST Global Challenge 2018, in Mexico City, which brings together 160 countries in a robotics contest. The participation of the...
Translated from Dutch. Suriname will again participate in the FIRST Global Challenge this year, which will be held from 15 to 18 August 2018 in Mexico City, Mexico. The goal of this competition, which is organized every year in another country, is to get more young...
Translated from Spanish. This is Marcos Lugo, an electronic engineer facilitator of the School of Robotics and Cyntia Beutler, student, who will assist representing Argentina to the FIRST Global Challenge 2018 to be held in Mexico City from August 15 to 18. "Every Saturday they work...
Three students from Woodford International School have been selected to represent Solomon Islands in the 2018 FIRST Global Robotics Competition in Mexico City. The competition will take place from August 15-18 at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico. The FIRST Global Challenge is an international robotics event with...
Following its outperforming of a number of developed countries in the FIRST Global Robotic Challenge last year, Seychelles will once again participate in this year’s challenge, set to take place at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, in August this year. FIRST Global is a...
Translated from Spanish. The team called Interconectados won the first place of the First National Robotics Tournament held last Sunday in Sucre, with the participation of 13 other teams from different parts of the country. The new champions are Brayan Durán Toconas (native of Tupiza-Potosí), Eduardo Vargas...
Translated from Vietnamese. With the fire and enthusiasm, the second time to return to the competition FIRST Global Challenge, the Vietnamese team aspires to confirm the stature of Vietnam on the international stage. This year's competition will be held in Mexico in August. Robotics and aspirations spread the...
In two months, student challengers from around the world will be meeting in Mexico to tackle "energy efficiency problems" using robots they've built themselves. The annual FIRST Global is a STEM focused international non-profit that runs international robotics competitions for high schoolers in nearly 160...
After a stellar performance in 2017 at the maiden edition of the FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition held in the United States, Ghana is preparing for this year’s competition to be held in Mexico in August with another all-girls team. The team is made up of...
Five young ladies have been selected to represent Seychelles in the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge which will take place in Mexico City from August 15-18. Sanjeetha Pillay from Independent School, Amy Joubert of Belonie secondary school, Steffie-Anne Monthy of International school, Trishia Labiche of Praslin Vijay...
FIRST Global, a STEM-focused international nonprofit that organizes an annual international robotics competition for high-school students from around the world, announced that the FIRST Global Challenge 2018 will convene participants from more than 160 countries, Aug. 15-18, at Mexico City’s Arena Ciudad de México to...
Three Gambian teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 18 have been selected to represent the continent of Africa at the FIRST Global Challenge 2018 International Robotics Competition in Mexico in August. Amie Sankareh, Vanessa Williams and Ida Camara and their mentor, Juma Baldeh will...
Fatemah Qaderyan is a guest of the Oslo Freedom Forum, and I meet her in the lobby of the Grand Hotel, in the heart of the Norwegian capital. From the kitchen, she orders French fries. Why not? I ask her, “Do you like McDonald’s?” Yes, she...
Ghana will be represented by an all-girls team at the upcoming FIRST Global Robotics competition in México City from August 15 to August 18, 2018. FIRST Global is a nonprofit organisation that organizes a yearly international robotics challenge to ignite a passion for Science, Technology, Engineering,...
First Lady, Sandra Granger yesterday received a cheque for $636,000 from Minister of Education, Nicolette Henry on behalf of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Guyana. A release from the Ministry of the Presidency said that this sum, which is the first instalment of a...
Translated from Chinese. (Reporter Liao Xueru/Hsinchu Report) 2018 First Global Challenge (FGC) International Tournament in Taiwan, with a total of 10 high school and junior high school students. On the 25th, Qiming University of Science and Technology of China merged technologies, and finally formed a multi-school...
Translated from Romanian. Technology enthusiasts are invited to an unprecedented exhibition of robots created by the best students in Hunedoara County. The locals are invited on Wednesday, May 30, 2018, to the Deva Fortress Park, to see robots made by students representing Hunedoara County at national and...
Five highly talented high school learners have been selected to represent South Africa at the FIRST Global Challenge. The “SpringBots” come from a very diverse background and bring to the team a wealth of academic knowledge, cultural learning and tremendous team spirit. These learners have a passion...
The University of the South Pacific’s (USP) Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment (FSTE) is partnering up with For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Global Higher Education Network to facilitate the First Global Robotics Competitionorganised for high school students around the world. FIRST...
The Afghan robotic girls team returned home after wrapping up a successful tour in Canada and the US. “We participated in the competition in New Mexico where we won first position and won a gold medal, in Turkey we also came first,” said Leda Azizi, head...
Three Bhutanese will represent the country at the Global Robotic Olympic this year at Arena Ciudad de México, Mexico City. Fabrication laboratory (FabLab) Bhutan has been inviting entries from young enthusiasts to represent the country at the competition that FIRST Global, a global non-governmental organisation holds...
There was no magic involved when the Wizards.exe [Team USA 2018] came home from Detroit with the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship Inspire Award in hand, along with their robot, which took 10th out of 6,000 teams from around the globe. Eleven Montgomery County teenagers have...
As the day for the First Global Challenge nears, Science Technology Engineer and Mathematics (STEM) Guyana is busy working to build a robot that will “wow” judges at this year’s competition in Mexico. Though the final team of six has not yet been selected, a group...
Translated from Albanian. Some young Albanians passionate about engineering, will again represent Albania in the "Robotic Olympics", which will this time be held in Mexico. Albania's participation is facilitated by FIRST, a non-for-profit child-raising organization in the field of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics), and offers four...
DETROIT - - Through it all, a group of Afghan girls with a passion to build mechanical machines controlled by high-tech robots never let the countless obstacles in their way stop them from pursuing their dreams. First, they came from a culture in Afghanistan where women in...
Young students from around the world will arrive in Mexico City this August to participate in a competition that taps into robotics to tackle global challenges. The inaugural FIRST Global Challenge in 2017 welcomed high-school students from 157 nations; and this year’s event is expected to be...