DIMONA TEENAGERS WIN 4TH PLACE OVERALL FOR ISRAEL IN ROBOTIC OLYMPICS

The Jerusalem Post - Israel News

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 to the FIRST Global Challenge, an annual competition where nearly 200 teams from around the world power through challenges using robots built before the competition. ‘FIRST’ is an acronym for “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology”.

Black Magic 11901 was paired with teams from China and Kiribati on the last day of the competition, the team said in a Facebook post, after losing 2 out of 3 games on the competition’s first day but winning 3 out of 4 on the next day. In addition to scoring fourth place with China and Kiribati, the Dimona team also won the bronze in the ‘International Unity’ competition and a ‘Safety Award.’

“We are so happy and satisfied with the results we achieved at the end of the competition – and of course with the fact that we represented Israel in the best way that we could do!” the team said in a statement on their Facebook page after the competition ended.

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