02 Sep Gulftimes: Texas A&M at Qatar mentoring 19th-ranked Qatar robotics team

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 Robotics Olympics, which is based on the 14 Grand Challenges of Engineering identified by the US National Academy of Engineering. Team Qatar comprises 25 students from 14 different schools. The team is part of Texas A&M University at Qatar’s (Tamuq) STEM Hub Robotics Club, which is currently ranked 19th out of 174 teams from around the world.