15 Aug Oman roots for environment in global STEM challenge
Posted at 14:40h in In the News
Muscat: A student-teacher team from Oman is competing in a global innovation and robotics challenge, alongside peers from about 170 countries.
The six-member team, supported by two teacher-supervisors, has completed the initial phase of the 2021 FIRST Global Challenge. The three phases comprise the solution, robotics and nanosatellite challenges.
The FIRST Global Challenge is an annual challenge, and this year’s theme for the solution challenge is ‘Discover & Recover’, in keeping with the struggles of the pandemic. For this phase, teams are required to pick challenges across environmental, health, economic and educational sectors caused by COVID-19.
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