09 Oct CNA: International youth teams overcome adversity, foster collaboration at robotics competition in Singapore

CNA spoke to several teams that travelled far and wide to Singapore for the competition on their journey and aspirations. Students from 191 nations have gathered in Singapore for an international robotics tournament highlighting the importance of renewable energy and its potential to create a better future. Into its seventh edition, the annual FIRST Global Challenge is being hosted in Southeast Asia for the first time at the Singapore Expo from Oct 7 to 10.

This year’s focus is on hydrogen, with teams building a robot and navigating it through a simulated environment to produce the resource. In the spirit of fostering global cooperation, teams will compete against and also work with each other in randomly assigned alliances. Organisers said this will highlight the competition’s core value of encouraging collaboration beyond borders. CNA spoke to several teams that travelled far and wide to Singapore for the competition on their journey and aspirations.