Texas A&M at Qatar-mentored robotics team finishes 19th worldwide

Team Qatar, the STEM-vengers, have finished in the 19th place among 175 teams worldwide in the FIRST Global Challenge.

The team is part of Texas A&M University at Qatar’s STEM Hub Robotics Club (SHRC), a joint initiative between the Qatar Foundation (QF) partner university and Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF).

Team Qatar is made up of 25 high school students with an interest in robotics from 14 schools across Qatar.

The annual FIRST Global Challenge, an ‘Olympics’-style robotics event, is based on the 14 Grand Challenges of Engineering identified by the US National Academy of Engineering. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 competition, ‘Connecting Communities’, consisted of three months filled with social media and technical challenges, talks by STEM professionals and technical training sessions — all while connecting the FIRST Global Community around the world.



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