Studio Sifaka: The FIRST Global Challenge – Madagascar continues to climb in the ranking

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(Translated from French)

Since 2017, thanks to the STEM for Good association , Madagascar has been represented each year at the FIRST Global Challenge, an annual international Olympic-style robotics competition. This year the contest will end September 25, 2020, and today Madagascar is the 5 th place in the ranking.

5 th place with 35 points is now ranking the Madagascar Team in the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge. Initiated in 2016 by the FIRST association that was founded by Dean Kamen, the competition aims to promote STEM ( Sciences, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics) and in particular its learning and fields of application. The competition is open to young people under the age of 18 and aims to popularize and especially to arouse passion for the field of STEM among young people.



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