07 Sep Team Qatar mentored by Tamuq introduces novel robotics solution

High school students from Qatar have developed an underwater robot to rescue marine creatures affected by plastic pollution in the 2021 FIRST Global Challenge, an “Olympics”-style robotics event.

Team Qatar, the STEM-vengers, consists of 16 students from 10 schools in Qatar. The FIRST Global Challenge invites each country to nominate a team to compete in a Robotics Olympics, based on the 14 Grand Challenges of Engineering identified by the US National Academy of Engineering.