Overseas robotics competition builds more than future innovators
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,...
AP — Dubai displays tech reputation with global robotics contest
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...
The National — Teenage Syrian refugees ‘Team Hope’ win at Dubai robotics competition
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...
BBC — Ocean Cleaning Robot: Ukrainian Kids Are Some of the Best Robotics in the World
(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...
Young Arabs showcase tech talent at FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai
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...
STEM is the new Superbowl: says FIRST Global Challenge’s mastermind
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...
India’s all-girl robotics team competes in FIRST Global Challenge
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...
Youth battle it out in Dubai to “clean oceans” with 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...