Selected roboticists represented Guatemala in the world Olympics
(Translated from Spanish) A long trip of approximately 36 hours took five young people to live the most fascinating experience, representing Guatemala as the National Robotics Team in the FIRST Global Challenge 2023, an Olympic-sized championship, which took place in Singapore from October 7 to 10, in which they were ranked 10th in Latin America. The selection has the endorsement of the National Secretariat of Science and Technology and soon another group will travel to Mexico City to represent Guatemala in the Continental Robomatrix category.Cayman’s National Robotics Team Gains Valuable Experience In Singapore
The Cayman Islands National Robotics Team returned home ranked 89th (out of 191 teams) after travelling to Singapore for the 2023 FIRST Global Challenge in early October. FIRST, or For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, is a global organisation focussed on inspiring young people to become science and technology leaders and innovators. Joining the programme in 2018, previous Cayman National Robotics Teams competed in Mexico, Dubai and Switzerland. This year’s challenge saw participating teams explore the potential of hydrogen as a sustainable energy source through a unique robotics challenge themed “Hydrogen Horizons.”SVG robotics team placed 67th at FIRST Global Challenge 2023
The robotics team from St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) finished 67th out of 191 countries in the 2023 FIRST Global Challenge (FGC), which was held in Singapore from October 7th to 10th under the topic “Hydrogen Horizons.” This was a significant increase on their last result in 2022, when they finished 80th out of 192 countries. The accomplishment not only illustrates SVG’s growing significance in the field of robotics, but it also emphasises the need of cultivating and supporting young talent in STEM subjects.Confey Students Representing Ireland In Singapore at The FIRST Global Challenge Robotics Competition
The team was in Singapore from 4th – 10th of October. They did amazingly well but did not win the overall competition. The experience of taking part in the event was a memory which will stay with the students forever. They also would like to thank the support from other countries they received and the involvement of corporate support for STEM based competitions.Peace Corps Vanuatu supports students at Global Robotics Challenge
Peace Corps Vanuatu staff served as mentors to five ni-Vanuatu youth and supported their participation into the Global Robotics Challenge held in Singapore from October 6-10. The Global Robotics Challenge was organized by FIRST Global, a United States-based nonprofit organization that is committed to inspiring science, technology, and innovation in young people from all nations and increasing understanding and cooperation. One high school team from every nation is invited to participate in the annual event.
Lam Research Cultivates Future STEM Talent at 2023 FIRST Global Challenge in Singapore
The 2023 FIRST Global Challenge has concluded in the vibrant city of Singapore, after high school students from nearly 200 countries collaboratively competed in a spirited, intellectual and creative battle within the realm of robotics. This seventh annual international robotics competition took place in Southeast Asia for the first time, held October 7-10, 2023 at the Singapore Expo. This exhilarating four-day event was conceived and organized by FIRST Global, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering scientific leadership and technological innovation among young minds worldwide. The 2023 Challenge helped made possible through the support of title sponsor Lam Research, a global supplier of innovative wafer fabrication equipment and services to the semiconductor industry.
Empowering Young Innovators who Represented Brunei at FIRST Global Challenge in Singapore.
24 October 2024 - Unified National Networks Sdn Bhd (UNN) proudly sponsored Hydrostar, a team comprising of 5 local talented students from various secondary schools in the FIRST Global Challenge held in Singapore from 7-10 October 2023. This sponsorship underscores the organisation’s commitment to support programmes that empowers the youths toward unlocking their potential in innovation within the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) field.Max Planck students in the world’s Top 60 at the FIRST Global Challenge in Singapore
(Translated from Italian) The adventure at the FIRST Global Challenge of the Planck Team, a robotics team from the Max Planck institute of the same name in Villorba, ended in Singapore with a 58th place out of 191 participating teams.Silver for Mexico! Young people win prize at robotics world cup
(Translated from Spanish) Representing Mexico, the Botbusters robotics team, from PrepaTec Eugenio Garza Sada, won a silver medal at the FIRST Global Challenge 2023, in Singapore. During the competition, which brought together 191 countries and was held from October 7 to 10, the team won the Ustad Ahmad Lahori award , which recognizes innovation in engineering .Suriname wins award for engineering Notebook in Singapore
(Translated from Dutch) The national Suriname Robotics Team achieved second place for the Katherine Johnson Award for Engineering Documentation in Singapore. To qualify for this award, countries had to submit an Engineering Notebook in accordance with certain criteria. The Notebook describes the entire process from robot design, testing to final delivery, including game strategy. Gold went to team Jamaica and bronze to team Indonesia.St Kitts and Nevis: SKNRA Directors embark on Singapore journey, PM Drew extends support
St Kitts and Nevis: Prime Minister Dr Terrance Drew showed his immense support to the director of the Robotics Association as they embarked on a groundbreaking mission to Singapore. During their official trip, the directors will engage with representatives from more than 190 countries, fostering international relations and networking opportunities.Lead mentor of Dominica robotics team ranks among top 10 globally; Dominica team 4th in OECS
Lead mentor for the Dominica robotics team, Kodie Jean-Jacques, got the Outstanding Mentor Award along with nine other outstanding mentors from around the world in the FIRST Global “Robotics Olympics” Challenge in Singapore. The FIRST Global Challenge is an annual Olympics-style robotics competition that allows pre-university students from around the world to engineer competition-style robots. At the event, a team of Dominican students from the Dominica Grammar School, and the Dominica State College competed with robotics teams from over 190 nations.Luxembourg: Their robot took them to Singapore
(Translated from French) “Everything happened very quickly! None of this was planned for the start of the school year!” says Jérôme Metzler, who supervises the MS20 makerspace at the Lycée Vauban. However, a few weeks later, on October 4, three students from his group, Emile, Pablo and Thibault, flew to Singapore, to participate in the world final of the FIRST Global Challenge (FGC) Olympic robotics competition, where 191 nations were represented.Yemeni students win an award in the World Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Championship in Singapore
(Translated from Arabic) The Yemeni team participating in the First Global Robotics and Artificial Intelligence World Championship won the SOCIAL MEDIA AWARD last Tuesday in Singapore. This participation, in which more than 190 countries are competing, which began at the beginning of this October, comes with the participation of a team of Yemeni students under the patronage of the Minister of Education, Tariq Al-Akbari, and under the supervision of the Gifted Academy Foundation.The Lebanese TechnoGeex team won first place in the “First Global Challenge 2023” tournament.
(Translated from Arabic) The “Technogeex” team, the only representative of Lebanon in the “FIRST Global Challenge 2023” tournament, won first place - a gold medal in the “New Technology Experience” category and the “FIRST Global Innovators Award." More than 160 countries participated in this category, and the scientific research of the TechnoGeex team was chosen as the best research in the field of alternative energy.Kazakh school students triumph at international robotics championship
The winners of the FIRST Global Challenge robotics championship have returned from Singapore. Students from the Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Physics and Mathematics in Almaty achieved record-breaking results, outperforming competitors from 191 countries. Kazakhstan’s robotics team retained their championship title, which they previously secured in Geneva last year. The team was coached by Bekzat Inkarov.Olympic medals for the Romanian robotics team at Global Robotics Olympiad – Singapore 2023
The Romanian robotics team, Team Romania – Delta Force – returns with two Olympic medals and two prizes from the FIRST Global Challenge – Global Robotics Olympiad – Singapore 2023. The Robotics Team of Romania won the bronze medal for innovation in engineering at the World Robotics Olympiad FIRST Global Challenge, category “Ustad Ahmad Lahori Award for Innovation in Engineering”, presenting a creative and innovative project in the competition and convincing the jury that the robot built it was a technical solution worthy of consideration! The robot invented by the team members proved to be highly appreciated by the jurors, here the education and information accumulated by the students in the National High School of Informatics in Arad can be found!Hungarian student robotics team wins silver in Singapore
A team of four students from the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) Secondary School Programme won a silver medal at the October 7-10 FIRST Global Challenge international robotics competition held in Singapore.E2STEM Cambodia bags 3rd Place at 2023 FIRST Global Challenge
A team of five students from E2STEM in Phnom Penh has secured the bronze medal in the Overall Winners category on Wednesday at the thrilling 2023 FIRST Global Challenge held in Singapore from October 7 to 10 at the Singapore EXPO Convention and Exhibition Centre. Over four days of intense communication, collaboration, and competition, E2STEM’s talents shone brightly. Their dedication to excellence was a beacon of inspiration throughout the competition, aligning perfectly with the core values of E2STEM and FIRST Global Challenge.Mendoza students became runners-up in the 2023 Robotics World Cup
(Translated from Spanish) The company Educabot announced that the team from the Tomas Alva Edison School (Mendoza) reached second place in the FIRST Global Challenge, a competition that brought together teams from 191 countries from October 7 to 10.Caribbean shines at 2023 ‘Robotics Olympics’ in Singapore
The 2023 FIRST Global Challenge, themed ‘Hydrogen Horizons,’ an annual competition dubbed the “Olympics” of the robotics world, came to a conclusion in Singapore, with students and experts from the Caribbean standing out among 191 nations showcasing their talent, innovation, and commitment to sustainable energy solutions. The event ran from October 7 – 10 and witnessed an impressive display of teamwork, creativity, and technological prowess. The competition focused on exploring the potential of hydrogen as a sustainable energy source, challenging participants to design and build robots capable of producing, storing, transporting, and converting hydrogen.Kazakh Schoolchildren Secure World Championship Title in Robotics
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s robotics team achieved record-breaking results at the FIRST Global Challenge in Singapore, the largest robotics championship, retaining their championship title, which they previously secured in Geneva last year, reported the Kazakh Ministry of Education on Oct. 11. According to Asylbek Murzakhmetov, the head of the USTEM Foundation, the team was carefully selected from a pool of 200 students across Kazakhstan during the national selection process. “The team not only set a world record for the highest number of points but also received accolades from the judges for their exceptional international cooperation. Kazakhstan’s reputation in the field of robotics continues to rise year by year,” he said.They are worthy of Peru! Arequipa schoolchildren stood out in robotics Olympiad
(Translated from Spanish) "Team Peru," represented by the talented students of the Domingo Savio school in Arequipa, had an outstanding participation in the International Robotics Olympics, FIRST Global Challenge, which took place from October 7 to 10 in Singapore. The five Peruvian schoolchildren competed with students from 191 countries representing Peru and reached good positions in the ranking of the international robotics competition, FIRST Global Challenge, whose main theme for 2023 was “Hydrogen Horizons.”Team Belize Wins Silver at FIRST Global Challenge 2023
Today, Team Belize returned from Singapore as silver medallists, second only to China, after competing in the FIRST Global Challenge 2023. Team Belize was selected from over one hundred and ninety participating countries to win the Zheng Heng Award in Engineering Design Excellence. The award is given to teams whose robot exhibits excellent engineering and displays elegance and effectiveness during the challenge. This award looks to recognize the most effective overall robot designs. A News Five crew was at the P.G.I.A. and Duane Moody reports.Moldova’s Robotics Team Triumphs at FIRST Global 2023, Clinching Gold and Silver in Singapore
In a breathtaking showdown against 190 countries, Moldova's Robotics Team has once again made its nation proud by clinching the GOLD medal in the Innovation and Engineering category and a SILVER medal for the Renewable Energy Innovation Project at the FIRST Global 2023 held in Singapore from October 6-10. This remarkable victory follows the team's outstanding performance in 2019 when the National Robotics team secured three medals at the "FIRST Global" competition in Dubai.CNA: Team Venezuela wins overall Albert Einstein Award at First Global Challenge 2023 in Singapore
After four days of intense robotics duels, Team Venezuela clinched the overall Einstein Award, given to the team with the best combination of in-tournament performance and that exemplifies values of the FIRST Global community. To round up FIRST Global Challenge 2023 in Singapore, CNA’s Yasmin Jonkers spoke to Sofia Parra, Captain of Team Venezuela, along with Dean Kamen, Founder of FIRST Global, to go over what transpired and discuss the importance of getting the next generation of innovators from different countries to build lasting relationships.Chile stands out in the ‘FIRST Global Challenge 2023’ Robotics Competition with a team of talented young people
(Translated from Spanish) The Chilean Embassy in Singapore is proud to highlight the participation of a team of 5 young Chilean students in the FIRST Global Challenge 2023 competition, held in Singapore between October 7 and 10. The international event brought together young people from 192 countries around the world in an Olympic-style robotics competition, whose objectives are to promote technological solutions to global challenges.Vietnamese students won the world’s largest robotics tournament
(Translated from Vietnamese) The Vietnamese team has just won the first Gold Medal in history participating in the World Robotics Tournament (FIRST Global Challenge - FGC). On the evening of October 10, the Vietnamese team excellently won the first Gold Medal in the country's history at the FGC World Robotics tournament.Team Guam represents in FGC robotics competition
CNA: FIRST Global Challenge | 4-day robotics tournament comes to a close
A team of young refugees and students from China, Eritrea and Vietnam have clinched the top prize in an "Olympic-style" robotics tournament held in Singapore. They edged out representatives from more than 180 countries in what is known as the FIRST Global Challenge.FIRST Global Challenge: Chad qualifies for the playoffs by occupying 5th place out of 191 countries
(Translated from French) In the international robotics competition in Singapore, the Chadian team of FIRST Global has placed fifth place out of 191 countries. The team was thus qualified for the playoffs of the competition. With this advancement, Chad is among the 30 countries qualified for the playoffs of the FIRST Global Challenge 2023. The team will play in alliance 8 with French Guiana, Venezuela and Latvia.Zim students in Singapore for robotics competitions
FIVE Zimbabwean students are in Singapore for this year’s edition of the First Global Challenge of the international robotics competitions. The five team members are Tanatswa Taremba, Tinashe Kwiri, Christwish Ushewokunze, Natalie Mupotaringa and Tavonga Musariri from Tynwald High, Queen Elizabeth and Rusape’s Milestone College, respectively. The students, who were drawn from Harare and Manicaland provinces, will join other high school students from 196 countries.
Young Zulians’ excitement after winning the Robotics World Championship for Venezuela in Singapore
(Translated from Spanish) A delegation of young students from the state of Zulia won the gold medal for Venezuela in the First Global Challenge robotics world championship, held in Singapore. The excitement of the young people was immediate, and they ran to the podium shouting, jumping and crying with happiness upon hearing the tune "En Venezuela" when the final result was read. "Venezuela is the World Robotics Champion! We are very proud to know that #TeamVenezuela won the gold medal Albert Einstein Award for First Global International Excellence," wrote the governor of Zulia.Jamaica team mines gold at Robotics Olympics in Singapore
Jamaica's team won gold at the Robotics Olympics in Singapore. The team topped the competition, held from October 7-10, to win the Kathrine Johnson Award for engineering documentation. The award is named after African-American mathematician Katherine Johnson, dubbed the human computer, who helped to calculate aeronautics that helped guide the return of astronauts John Glen and Alan Shepard to Earth from space.An Algerian team participates in the FIRST Global Challenge 2023 Singapore: STEM, a springboard for the growth of robotics in Algeria
(Translated from French) A young team of passionate and talented innovators, representing Algeria at the international level, took part this Saturday in the official launch ceremony of the FIRST Global Challenge 2023 competition, which is being held in Singapore from October 7 to 10 and where teams from more than 191 countries participate in a global robotics event organized by the American non-profit FIRST Global. Raid Ghomeriani, STEM Educating Specialist at World Learning Algeria, supervises from his office in Ouargla the trip to Singapore of the Algerian team made up respectively of Achraf Meguellati, 26 years old, STEM Educating Specialist and president of the Algerian delegation, Meriem Slimani, 19 years old, STEM supervisor, Khadija Goudjil, 17 years old, Marwan Akli, 17 years old, Raneem Djakboub, 16 years old, Younes Khadir, 16 years old, and Mohammed Kaddouri, 16 years old, captain of the team. Team Algeria 2023 is made up of a group of talented and ingenious students selected to represent our country at this prestigious event.Guyanese Robotics Wiz Kids Overcome Challenges and Astonish at Singapore Challenge!
SINGAPORE – Team Guyana Robotics, an inspiring all-girls field team, is turning heads and making waves at the prestigious First Global Challenge here in Singapore. The team, currently standing strong in the top 20 rankings, is set to potentially enter the playoffs in a blaze of glory. The road to success hasn’t been without its bumps. After suffering two initial losses, the team found themselves in a precarious position. However, the silver lining was that their individual game scores remained impressive, ensuring a place within the top 50 after the opening day.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.2023 FIRST Global Challenge – Minister Grace Fu Speech
Speech by Ms Grace Fu, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, at the 2023 FIRST Global Challenge Opening Ceremony on 7 October 2023.Meet the five Salvadorean young people competing in robotics in Singapore
(Translated from Spanish) This is the fifth time that young people from the Salvador del Mundo Foundation (FUSALMO) are participating and will represent El Salvador in the FIRST Global Challenge World Robotics competition, held in Singapore from October 7 to 10 of this year. The young people who will participate in the competition along with their mentors who prepared them in the competition and will be in charge in Singapore, Sitting, Nelson Marroquín, Roberto Carlos Sánchez (standing from left to right) Fátima López, technology educator, Erick Zelaya, Astrid Orellana, Marisol Orantes and Ricardo Gálvez, coordinate STEAM of FUSALMO.Robotics team overcomes bag delay, ready to compete at Global Challenge
The Cook Islands Robotics team has overcome a jittery start to get their campaign underway at the 2023 FIRST Global Challenge in Singapore this weekend. The Cook Islands Robotics team has overcome a jittery start to get their campaign underway at the 2023 FIRST Global Challenge in Singapore this weekend.CNA: ‘Olympic-style’ robotics competition hosted by Singapore a springboard for growth, says organiser
Teams from more than 190 countries will compete in the 2023 FIRST Global Challenge in Singapore – the first time the competition is held in Southeast Asia. An international robotics competition that kicked off in Singapore on Saturday (Oct 7) has been a “springboard” for the growth of robotics in some participating countries, said its organiser. Held until Oct 10, the annual robotics event organised by US-based non-profit group FIRST Global will bring together thousands of students from 191 countries to compete in a contest that highlights the importance of renewable energy and its potential to create a better future for all.Hydrogen Week is Underway! Follow the Hydrogen Horizons Challenge in Singapore, Co-Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy
In recognition of Hydrogen Day—October 8—the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO) invites you to learn about FIRST Global's Hydrogen Horizons Challenge, a competition co-sponsored by DOE that will inspire the next generation of problem solvers to tackle the...
Cyprus in the FIRST Global Challenge
An interview with FIRST Global Team Cyprus conducted in Greek.Young students will represent Paraguay in a global robotics competition and aim for a “national league”
(Translated from Spanish) The RoboGators team, made up of high school students from the American School of Asunción, carries the flag of Paraguay in the prestigious FIRST Global Challenge 2023 to be held in Singapore from October 7 to 10 of this year.These young Normans will represent France in an international competition in Singapore
(Translated from French) Five high school students from Gaillon are going to experience a real adventure. The WeRobots are participating in the First Global Challenge, a robotics competition, which begins in Singapore on October 7.CNBC India: Meet The 5 Students Representing India At ‘The FIRST Global Challenge’ Competition
FIRST Global uses robots to build kids with the self-confidence, skill sets, imagination, courage, and vision to do essential things. Tune in for more details.Ghanaian youth team flies into Singapore for robotics contest
GHANA’S youth robotics team is set, after feverish preparations, to compete in Singapore, October 7-10th, 2023, at FIRST Global, an annual Olympic-style international robotics competition that brings together youth from all around the world to share their passion for Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).Woodford International School students off to Singapore for 2023 FIRST Global Challenge.
Five students from Woodford International School in Honiara left the country today to represent Solomon Islands at the 2023 FIRST Global Challenge in Singapore. This Global Robotics competition is hosted annually by the non-profit organization, FIRST Global, which this year will be bringing together students from over 190 countries to compete in the challenge. The 2023 FIRST Global Challenge will focus on the role of hydrogen in the planet’s renewable energy and reduced carbon future.CBC: Calgary high school students carry the flag for East African country at international competition
Five Calgary high school students are heading to Singapore this week to test their new robot against others from around the world. But they're not representing Canada. They'll be carrying the flag for the small East African country of Eritrea. "It definitely means a lot to our families and the community," said team member Adonai Habte, who was born in Canada to a family that moved here from Eritrea.Sununu to Travel Internationally to Visit National Guard Soldiers, Attend FIRST Global Challenge
Concord, NH – On the evening of Wednesday, October 4, Governor Chris Sununu will depart New Hampshire for international travel. The Governor will first travel to Kuwait to visit the New Hampshire National Guard’s 3rd Battalion, 197th Field Artillery Regiment, which is deployed to Central Command (CENTCOM) in support of Operations Inherent Resolve and Spartan Shield. The Governor will then depart Kuwait to represent New Hampshire alongside Dean Kamen at the FIRST Global Challenge 2023 in Singapore – an Olympic-style robotics competition with 191 teams representing 190 nations from around the world. The Governor previously attended the FIRST Global Challenge in 2019 in Dubai.FIRST Global, Title Sponsor Lam Research to Host the World’s Most International Innovation Challenge to Inspire Kids in STEM, Future Solutions for Climate Change
Nearly 200 countries to compete in robotics at the 2023 FIRST Global Challenge in SingaporeYoung people from Limón will represent Costa Rica in the world robotics competition in Singapore
(Translated from Spanish) San José, Oct 3 (elmundo.cr) – Five promising young people from Limón will represent Costa Rica in the FIRST Global Challenge, which is a global robotics competition, and this year their challenge is to develop a project focused on the use of hydrogen.The students Mario Aguilar Solórzano, Aleysha Harvey McKenzie, Alejandro Rojas García, students from the Liceo Nuevo de Limón Mario Bourne Bourne; Nicol Gutiérrez García; Limón Professional Technical College; and Mariángel Cordero Aguirre; Guápiles Professional Technical College, make up the AC Makerspace Club of the American Corner of the Public Library of Limón Mayor Thomas Benjamin Lynch, are the young people who will be giving the best of their knowledge to raise the name of this country.
Robotics to be an official sport in Belize
At the beginning of the week, the Minister of Youth, Sports, and Transport, Hon. Rodwell Ferguson, announced to the country that Belize will be one of the first countries in the world to make robotics an official national sport. In addition to robotics becoming an official sport in Belize, the National Robotics Federation was launched, with the official documentation being handed to the principal of Belize High School (BHS), Jamie Usher. For over a decade, BHS has been the only educational institution in the country to establish an unconventional after-school program, and they have proudly reaped the fruit of their labors, as they have competed in several international robotics competitions throughout those years. “Robotics wasn’t experienced by everyone, so, having it as a sport allows a lot of people who do not have the opportunity to see or hear anything about robotics to be able to be a part of this larger community that we want to manage, to ensure that there’s a lot of people that have access to the opportunities that we have at this school,” said Gustavo Carillo, Head of the BHS Department of Information Technology.Texas A&M at Qatar mentors Team Qatar for FIRST Global challenge
Twenty high school students from eleven different schools across Qatar are undergoing rigorous training sessions at Texas A&M University at Qatar, a Qatar Foundation partner university, as they prepare to represent Qatar at the FIRST Global challenge to be held in Singapore. The FIRST Global Challenge is an Olympics-style, international robotics competition that takes place in a different country each year. STEM experts from Texas A&M at Qatar are mentoring the Team Qatar is part of the STEM Hub Robotics Club (SHRC) that work at the STEM Hub at Texas A&M at Qatar, a joint initiative between Qatar National Research Fund and the university.Team Sri Lanka Gears Up for FIRST Global Challenge 2023
Since early July, the sounds of electrical tools and voices discussing mathematical equations have been a constant in the halls of Elizabeth Moir School. The voices in question belong to the members of the Sri Lankan team for this year’s FIRST Global Robotics Challenge. The team, comprised of 11 students from Elizabeth Moir School and 1 student from the British School in Colombo, has been preparing industriously for the upcoming competition which will take place in Singapore from October 7-10.At the Prime Minister’s Office: The Niger team at the International Robotics Competition presents their robot to the Prime Minister
(Translated from French) Prime Minister Mr. Lamine Zeine Ali Mahamane received, this Friday, September 29, 2023 at his office, the Niger team at the FIRST Global Challenge international robotics competition which will be held from October 7 to 10, 2023 in Singapore (Asia). On this occasion, the Prime Minister officially presented the Niger flag to this team. It was in the presence of the Minister of Postal Communication and the Digital Economy, the Minister of National Education and the Minister of Public Health.Saint Lucia’s Robotics Team Set to Shine at FIRST Global Competition
Saint Lucia’s Robotics team is gearing up to participate in the prestigious FIRST Global Competition. This global showcase of innovation and robotics excellence is scheduled to take place from October 7th to 10th, 2023 and will bring together some of the brightest young minds from around the world to Singapore. The FIRST Global Competition is an annual international robotics event that encourages and celebrates the spirit of cooperation and collaboration among young innovators. Thousands of students from more than 190 countries will compete in a thrilling game highlighting the importance of renewable energy.VI Students To Participate In Robotics Challenge In Singapore
A team of four students from secondary schools in the Virgin Islands will participate in the annual international Global Robotics Challenge from October 7 to 10 in Singapore. The team of students namely, Amani Brown, Denae Scatliffe-Chalwell, Jayron Gibson, all of the Elmore Stoutt High School and K’Dyah James, of the Virgin Islands School of Technical Studies will join teams from around the world in the, ‘For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology’ (FIRST) Robotics Challenge. The students will be accompanied by mentors Careen Cuffy-Jules and Andre Roberts. Minister for Education, Youth Affairs and Sports, Honourable Sharie B. de Castro said that the Virgin Islands’ participation in this event presents an excellent opportunity for the students to showcase their talent, innovation, creativity, and problem-solving skills on an international stage.Nigerian Students to Represent Country at First Global Challenge in Singapore
A team of eight high school students from Nigeria has been chosen to represent their country at the upcoming First Global Challenge (FGC) in Singapore. The students, aged between 14 and 18, were selected and coached by STEM Educators in Nigeria (ASEN), an organization dedicated to promoting STEM education in the country.These are the young people who will represent Argentina in the Robotics World Cup
(Translated from Spanish) 2022 was an atypical year for Argentina. Yes, I'm talking about the World Cup. The word "World Cup" and "Argentina" have historically had that relationship of unconditional love. The truth is that, every time the country participates in an international competition, it leaves every last drop to win the prize for the best. Neither more nor less, that is what the Mendoza students who will participate in the robotics world championship will try. The FIRST Global Challenge 2023: Hydrogen Horizons , which will take place from October 7 to 10 in Singapore. The goal of the challenge is to inspire students to explore their passions and enhance their knowledge in science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics ( STEAM ) to address real problems through play.Bhutanese students gear up for FIRST Global Competition
Five students from Bhutan will compete in the FIRST Global Robotic Competition in Singapore, which is themed Hydrogen Horizons, next month. They were selected based on their performance in the National Coding Competition held on July 1, 2023. Another 26 students will accompany them and the two mentors, Yonten Chophel of Daga Central School (CS) and Sonam Dorji T of Kuzhugchen Middle Secondary School. FIRST Global Robotic Competition is an international robotics competition for high school students from around the world, designed to inspire young people to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The competition intends to promote international understanding and cooperation, which is held every year, said one of the mentors, Yonten Chophel.Robotics: The Mali national team hard at work for Singapore 2023
(Translated from French) From October 7 to 10 in Singapore, national robotics teams will compete in the “FIRST Global Challenge”. For this edition, delegations from 190 countries including Mali are expected. The teams are working on the theme of “the importance of renewable energies,” and their potential to create a better future for all. After Geneva last year, Mali will be in Singapore this year. On site, the Mali team nicknamed the “Black Panthers” will have the opportunity to compete against the best teams in the world. Our national team is made up of 23 members, including 14 girls, all aged 16 to 18. For four months now, young people have been preparing the competition to send five of its best members to FIRST Global Challenge 2023 who will defend the colors of Mali.President Milanović hosted young roboticists from Istria, Croatia
(Translated from Croatian) The President of the Republic Zoran Milanović spoke with the young roboticists gathered in "Team Croatia" and their mentors from the Center for Technological Development and STEM Education "Pozitron" from Rovinj. The meeting was held on the occasion of their imminent departure to the FIRST Global Challenge 2023 competition, which will be held in Singapore, so President Milanović wished them a successful placement at the competition. "Team Croatia" is a team of roboticists made up of high school students from several cities in Istria, including Marija Šimunović, Stefano Poropat, Adrian Legović, Leon Matejčić and Ana Sošić, team leaders Iva Sošić and Maša Šverko, and mentors Lovro Šverko, Jelena Svilar, Lara Kukec and Alen Vinčić.Science, technology challenge for USP students in Singapore
A group of four youngsters with a flair for science and technology have joined hands to represent Fiji at the FIRST Global Challenge in Singapore next month. The BulaBots Fiji team is being mentored by USP associate professor of electrical and electronic engineering Utkal Mehta. Professor Mehta said the meet was a way of preparing more students – especially young women – to join the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, which had traditionally been male-dominated. The participants are USP foundation students, and their task is to engineer a robot capable of surmounting the challenges awaiting them in Singapore.Antigua & Barbuda sends DadliBots team to FIRST Global Robotics Challenge in Singapore
The Antigua and Barbuda Robotics team – DadliBots is proud to announce the students that are poised to take centre stage and represent Antigua and Barbuda at the annual FIRST Global Robotics Challenge (FGC) event which will is scheduled to be held from 7 – 10 October 2023. Over 190+ countries will come together in Singapore at the Singapore EXPO centre to face off in a collaborative international Olympic-styled robotics competition that will not only engage students from different backgrounds, languages, religions, and customs; but will also drive home the importance, excitement, and applicability of STEM education.Côte d’Ivoire team ready to shine at FIRST Global Robotics Competition in Singapore
(Translated from French) Dive into the exciting world of robotics with the exceptional IvoiRobotics team from Côte d’Ivoire. Since 2017, this team has amazed by participating brilliantly in various robotics competitions. This year, she is preparing to showcase her talent at the FIRST Global robotics competition, scheduled to take place from 7 to 10 October 2023 in Singapore, under the stimulating theme “Hydrogen Horizons”.The Mostar CERIT team is preparing for the International Robotics Olympiad
(Translated from Bosnian) The team of the Mostar Center for Education, Robotics, Innovation and Technology (CERIT) will represent Bosnia and Herzegovina at the upcoming International Robotics Olympiad "FIRST Global Challenge 2023", which will be held in October in Singapore. A team of talented roboticists: Ana Tomić, Amina Đuderija, Ilajda Šuta, Amar Pehilj and Kenan Nuhić, under the mentorship of Anes Hadžiomerović, Armin Đidelija and Lejla Nuhić, spent an extremely productive day at the International University in Sarajevo yesterday, CERIT announced.ROBOTICS – Madagascar participates in the “FIRST Global Challenge”
(Translated from French) Madagascar is proudly preparing to participate in the 7th edition of the international robotics competition “FIRST Global Challenge” (FGC), which will be held in Singapore from October 7 to 10. Under the central theme of hydrogen in renewable energy, this prestigious competition brings together young people from different countries to take on a large-scale scientific and technical challenge. Team Madagascar, nicknamed “Robotiako”, representing the island nation in this competition, comes from the STEM Club program. Made up of 5 girls and 5 boys, this dynamic and inclusive team stood out for its commitment and know-how in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.7 Centurion students to perform on international robotics stage
Seven Centurion learners will jet off to Singapore to participate in the first global renewal and robotic challenge. Thousands of students from more than 190 countries will be showcasing their skills in highlighting the importance of renewable energy around the globe. According to SpringBots Foundation public relations officer Roxanne Reddy, the competition will be held in Singapore as it was at the forefront of sustainability initiatives making it the great choice for this year’s theme. “The competition will be held under the theme “Hydrogen Horizon”. We selected our learners based on their academic achievements and also by the love of Stem – science, technology, engineering and maths – robotics,” Reddy said.Young people from Secondary Education participate in the 7th edition of the FIRST Global Robotics Competition 2023
(Translated from Portuguese) A team of three secondary school students and their mentors will represent Cabo Verde in the 7th edition of the FIRST Global 2023 Robotics Competition, organized by the International FIRST Committee Association (IFCA), known as FIRST Global, aimed at young people from secondary school, which takes place in Singapore from October 7 to 10.Hydrogen-based robotics competition heads to Singapore
US-based FIRST Global will hold the ‘Hydrogen Horizons’ robotics competition from October 7-10, 2023, designed to show students that alternatives like hydrogen can be a path to a cleaner future. FIRST Global will host the Olympic-style robotics challenge in Singapore, with students from over 190 countries being charged with navigating a robot they built themselves through a simulated environment to produce hydrogen and use it to store, transport and convert energy.FIRST Global Challenge Central Asia underway in Astana
O FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition is currently taking place in the Kazakh capital, with 40 teams and over 200 young engineers competing in the national stage. The winners will represent the country at the final round next month in Singapore. Young talents from all over Kazakhstan are showcasing their innovations in hydrogen energy and renewable energy sources. Additionally, the school students' task is to demonstrate their robot assembly skills and practical abilities using the latest green technologies. The event also includes a separate qualification round for participants from Central Asian countries.Times of India: Five Goan students to represent India in global robotics challenge
Panaji: Students from Goa will be representing the country to participate in the FIRST Global Challenge – an Olympics-style international robotics competition that is taking place in Singapore from October 7 to 10. The team selected to represent India this year at FGC 2023 comprises five students who belong to Team Legogoa, a community club that has been pursuing robotics from the past six years and possess skills like robot building, 3D designing and 3D printing. “It is going to be a big deal for us, participating in an international competition among all the other countries,” said Class X student at Kendriya Vidyalaya Bambolim, Apurva Katkar – the only girl in the team of five.CNN: How to Unscrew a Planet — “The Whole Story” with Anderson Cooper
In this captivating segment, the spotlight was on the 2022 FIRST Global Challenge in Geneva, Switzerland, and our teams' participation in the New Technology Experience. Relive the memories of the 2022 games and witness the genius of young minds from Teams Zimbabwe, Greece, Indonesia, and...
Government launches call for the VI National Robotics Tournament FIRST Global Bolivia
(Translated from Spanish) The authority highlighted that, in the last national robotics championship, there was a large presence of women "breaking patriarchal barriers" and participating in science and technology. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story (in Spanish)' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link="https://www.atb.com.bo/2023/05/12/gobierno-lanza-convocatoria-para-el-vi-torneo-nacional-de-robotica-first-global-boliv/" target="_blank" color='' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color='' hover_background_color='' font_style=''...
The Straits Times: Singapore to host ‘Olympic-style’ international robotics competition in October
WASHINGTON – Singapore will host the seventh edition of an international robotics challenge for youth in October, the first time the annual competition will be held in Asia. Around 190 countries will send a team each to Singapore to compete in the “Olympic-style” contest organised by...
NBC News: Afghan girls robotics team seeks to inspire others this Women’s History Month
The Afghan girls robotics team was forced to evacuate Kabul when it fell to the Taliban in 2021. Now based in Qatar, the young women continue to pave the way for a more equal future. NBC News’ Molly Hunter has the latest updates from the team.For Chilean women and people of diversity: call to form the national robotics selection team launched
(Translated from Spanish) From February 6 to 10, a robotics bootcamp will be held to select the 2023 team that will travel to participate in the FIRST Global Challenge, the most important international robotics tournament in the world. Chile has participated for six consecutive years in...
Tanzanian President Samia lauds Tanzanians’ success in Global Robotics Challenge
President Samia Suluhu Hassan has congratulated two young Tanzanians who won a silver medal in the first Global Robotics Challenge held in Geneva, Switzerland involving more than 190 countries. Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa presented Samia's message at a ceremony held to congratulate the youths, which took...
How robots are attracting girls to take up sciences
According to Ms Carolyne Ekarisiima, the company’s chief executive officer, they have been using science and robots to inspire girls in Tanzania to pursue STEM. Ms Ekyarisiima says the project has been experimented at Mengo Senior Secondary School and has been successful . Under the arrangement, girls...
The meeting of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis with the Greek National Student Robotics Team
(Translated from Greek) Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis welcomed the Greek National Robotics Team, which won a gold and a bronze medal at this year's "FIRST Global Challenge" robotics olympiad, held in October in Switzerland, at the Maximos Mansion. The Prime Minister congratulated the team members and their...
Students from Stuttgart win bronze
(Translated from German) Six students from the Katzenstift in Stuttgart have won bronze as the German national team in an international competition. The school club does what regular lessons usually lack: making science more exciting through tinkering and trial and error. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story' icon='fa-arrow-right'...
Amazon Future Engineer Helps Kids in Need Explore the World of Robotics
“Through the journey of building robots, I have realised the initial part is the hardest. But once you take that first step and move to the next one, you’ll realise how far you have come,” says 16-year-old Nikhat Ahmed Khan. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story' icon='fa-arrow-right'...
From competitor to mentor
Yifei “Bruce” Li enjoyed his experience at the FIRST Global Challenge so much, he returned to help mentor other young competitors In 2019, Yifei “Bruce” Li represented Team China at the FIRST Global Challenge, an annual Olympic-style robotics competition that welcomes high school competitors from more...
Horsham Collyer’s students represent UK at international robotics competition FIRST Global Challenge
Horsham college students have recently represented the United Kingdom at an Olympic-style international robotics competition. The robotics championships took place in Geneva, Switzerland over the course of a week in the middle of October. More than 180 countries competed and teams worked together in rotating alliances...
Sri Lanka wins Gold at Robotics Olympiad in Geneva
Team Sri Lanka is returning home from Geneva with a Gold medal after winning the Zhang Heng Award for Engineering Design, the prestigious prize for technical achievement at the FIRST Global Challenge. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link=‘https://www.ft.lk/education/Sri-Lanka-wins-Gold-at-Robotics-Olympiad-in-Geneva/10515-741771’ target='_blank' color='' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color=''...
Sisters win Silver Award in Global Robotics Challenge
Daniya Syed, winner of several awards and recognitions in relation to her passion for robotics and community service lead Team Australia as Captain while Haniya Syed not only contributed to the design and development of robot but also performed the role of Robot Driver at...
Mexican pride! Students win gold in FIRST Global robotics Challenge
(Translated from Spanish) Mexican students won the Albert Einstein Award gold medal at the FIRST Global robotics Challenge held in Geneva in October. The most prestigious award of the competition was given to the Mexican delegation because their robot was the best performer during the competition and...
GIRLS FROM APPS & GIRLS MAKE ROBOTS, WIN THE WORLD
The Head of State presented honorary diplomas to several students awarded at world Olympics
The President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, met today with several young people who have represented our country in various global competitions. The President congratulated our Olympians for their achievements and presented them with a diploma of honour as a token of her...
Education Ministry congratulates national team on efforts at FIRST Global robotics contest
Education Minister Daryl Matthew has congratulated the efforts of the four-member team Dadlibots who represented the country at a robotics competition in Switzerland earlier this month. The students Teyanna Nathaniel (team leader), Ethan Bailey (engineer), Deshini Charles (programmer) and Leyla Reid (designer) competently and skillfully took...
Global Robotic Challenge: Five Nigerian kids stun the world in Geneva
Five Nigerian secondary school kids who formed the Nigeria team at this year’s FIRST Global Robotic Challenge in Geneva, Switzerland, took the world in awe when they carted away the bronze medal for the Dr. Mae Jemison Award for International Unity. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story'...
Students from Pohnpei make a splash at international robotics competition
POHNPEI, Micronesia (Habele) — The robotics team from Pohnpei Island Central School returned from the FIRST Global international robotics Challenge in Switzerland with the title of “First among small countries,” and a story to encourage their peers across the Federated States of Micronesia. [button size='medium' style=''...
Brunei robotics team excels in int’l competition
FIRST Global Team Brunei Darussalam 2022 completed their best-ever performance at the 2022 FIRST Global robotics competition by being placed 88th, an improvement of 24 places from 112 in 2019. The team also won the social media challenge. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link='https://borneobulletin.com.bn/brunei-robotics-team-excels-in-intl-competition/'...
The Moldovan team won gold at the International Robotics Olympics in Geneva
(Translated from Russian) The team from Moldova won in the Engineering Innovations category. The video shows the robot they created. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story (in Russian)' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link='https://nokta.md/sbornaya-moldovy-zavoevala-zoloto-na-mezhdunarodnoj-olimpiade-po-robototehnike-v-zheneve/' target='_blank' color='' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color='' hover_background_color='' font_style='' font_weight='' text_align='' margin='']...
Minister of Education participates in celebration rally for Belize High School’s Robotics Team
Tоdау, Міnіѕtеr оf Еduсаtіоn, Сulturе, Ѕсіеnсе, аnd Тесhnоlоgу, Frаnсіѕ Fоnѕеса раrtісіраtеd іn thе vісtоrу rаllу fоr thе Веlіzе Ніgh Ѕсhооl Rоbоtісѕ Теаm thаt ѕесurеd gоld mеdаlѕ fоr Веlіzе аt thе FІRЅТ Glоbаl Сhаllеngе. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link='https://www.breakingbelizenews.com/2022/10/19/minister-of-education-participates-in-celebration-rally-for-belize-high-schools-robotics-team/' target='_blank' color='' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color='' hover_background_color=''...
Jamaica bags silver in ‘prestigious category’ at robotics competition
Jamaica's team to the FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition in Geneva, Switzerland, walked away with a silver medal in the Albert Einstein Award category last week. The Albert Einstein Award for FIRST Global International Excellence is "awarded to the teams whose robots performed the best during...
President salutes young Zimbabweans for shining on global stage
YOUNG Zimbabweans continue to make the country proud with their exploits on the international arena, with the latest being a team of high school students who came first at a global robotics competition held in Switzerland. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link='https://www.herald.co.zw/president-salutes-young-zimbabweans-for-shining-on-global-stage/' target='_blank' color=''...
Luxembourgish robotics team records best-ever result at Geneva competition
Luxembourg completed its best-ever performance by placing 67th at the annual international robotics competition in Switzerland over the weekend. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link='https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/1980138.html' target='_blank' color='' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color='' hover_background_color='' font_style='' font_weight='' text_align='' margin='']...
Kazakh students win top honors at FIRST GLOBAL CHALLENGE
Kazakh students won top honors and set a record at the FIRST GLOBAL CHALLENGE robotics competition in Geneva, Switzerland, the telegram channel of the Kazakh Enlightenment Minister Askhat Aimagambetov reads. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link='https://www.inform.kz/en/kazakh-students-win-top-honors-at-first-global-challenge_a3991398' target='_blank' color='' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color='' hover_background_color='' font_style=''...
All about the Robotics Challenge that Zim won in Switzerland and the youngsters that brought it home
You may have heard the news, Zimbabwe won a gold medal at a global robotics competition. You love to hear it. Here is all you need to know about the winning entry and the competition as a whole. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link='https://www.techzim.co.zw/2022/10/about-robotics-challenge-that-zim-won-in-swiss-and-the-team-that-won/' target='_blank'...
SKN Robotics celebrate successful outing at FIRST Global Challenge
The St Kitts & Nevis Robotics Association (SKNRA) has turned its focus to future editions of the FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition after the team gave some credible performances. Team St Kitts and Nevis held their own at the 2022 competition in Geneva, Switzerland and picked...
Lam Research Pledges $10 Million to FIRST Global to Inspire Future Innovators in Semiconductor Technology and Beyond
FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 17, 2022 -- As part of the company's commitment to enabling transformative learning around the world, Lam Research Corp. (NASDAQ: LRCX) has announced a $10 million donation to FIRST® Global, a nonprofit inspiring science and technology leadership and innovation in young people...
AP: Teens tackle 21st-century challenges at robotics contest
GENEVA (AP) — For their first trip to a celebrated robotics contest for high school students from scores of countries, a team of Ukrainian teens had a problem. With shipments of goods to Ukraine uncertain, and Ukrainian customs officers careful about incoming merchandise, the group only...
Intel partners with FIRST Global for a 2023 Student Maker Cohort focused on neural code innovation
For 2023, Intel is sponsoring a Student Maker Cohort intended to create a community for shared learning between industry leaders, technologists, and the next generation of student makers, who will contribute to the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for industry innovation. In January 2023, Intel will...
‘Our Drona can shoot and climb’: Mumbai teens on representing India at a global robotics challenge
Five Mumbai teens from underprivileged homes, who are in Geneva to represent India at the robotics challenge, speak to mid-day about why their mean machine is one-of-a-kind. It's been a hectic few months for Rohit Sathe, Pritam Thopate, Sumit Yadav, Paras Pawade and Nikhat Khan. The...
Team Belize wins gold at FIRST Global Challenge
Congratulations are in order for Belize as they’ve won gold at the FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition in Geneva, Switzerland. This is the first time that a team from the Caribbean has won or medalled at the competition. The previous best performance was Jamaica’s 15th place...
Belize & Puerto Rico into FIRST Global Challenge playoffs
The Caribbean contingent at the FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition is continuing to show the world that the region has a lot to offer as two teams have successfully navigated into the playoffs. Representatives from Belize and Puerto Rico earned valuable points during the first round...
Bahamas leads the way for the Caribbean at FIRST Global Challenge
Caribbean teams are showing that the small countries can hold their own against bigger and developed countries at the 2022 FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition in Geneva, Switzerland. The robots developed by Caribbean teams were able to win or draw match-ups with the likes of Japan,...
With the participation of Syria, the opening of the FIRST Global International Competition in Geneva
(Translated from Arabic) With the participation of the Syrian Arab Republic through the Association for the Rights of the Child with its two teams "Kawkab Genius" and "Cybots", the "FIRST Global" competition, which is specialized in programming, mechanics and robotics, was inaugurated yesterday in Geneva, Switzerland,...
Grenada robotics team leaves for Geneva to participate in FIRST Global Challenge
Grenada: Five students and two faculty members of the College’s Robotics Team left Grenada on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, to participate in the FIRST Global Challenge to be held October 13-16, 2022, in Geneva, Switzerland. The students who will proudly represent the country are Symiah Grey,...
Uganda sends five students for robotics competition in Geneva
Five students from Uganda travelled on Monday for a robotics competition in Geneva, Switzerland, which will run from October 13 (tomorrow) to October 16. The students are Mittina Akampa, Joy Ruth Namakula Muganwa, Samrawit Ghebrehiwot, Hermon Asmerom Gebregergish and Doreck Agaba. They are from Mengo SS...
Bermuda Robotics Team To Compete In Geneva
Members of the Bermuda Robotics Team are travelling to Switzerland to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge robotics olympics this month. A spokesperson said, “Six of our 22 members of our Bermuda Robotics Team are travelling to compete in the FIRST Global Robotics Olympics being held...
Cayman Islands National Robotics team heads to Switzerland
We are officially living in amazing times, as robots – once seen as inventions of the future – are now the reality of the present. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link='https://www.caymancompass.com/2022/10/11/cayman-islands-national-robotics-team-heads-to-switzerland/' target='_blank' color='' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color='' hover_background_color='' font_style='' font_weight='' text_align='' margin='']...
7-member delegation representing SVG at Global Robotics Challenge
A seven-member (7) delegation team left Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on Monday, October 10th to participate in the 6th Annual FIRST Global Challenge. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link='https://www.stvincenttimes.com/svg-delegation-first-global-robotics-competition-geneva-switzerland/' target='_blank' color='' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color='' hover_background_color='' font_style='' font_weight='' text_align='' margin='']...
Nation’s pride! 5 underprivileged students create a Robot; to represent India in Switzerland
Mumbai: It is a proud moment for India as the country is all set to get represented by young talents in the Olympics of the Robotics World. Hailing from the city of dreams, Mumbai, five underprivileged students - Rohit Sathe, Pritam Thopate, Sumit Yadav, Paras...
Lae Sec to compete in global robotics competition
FIVE students from Lae Secondary School in Morobe will travel to Switzerland to compete in the first global robotics competition, a senior teacher said. Lae Secondary School principal Christopher Raymond said these were grade 11 science students who were chosen for their academic excellence. [button size='medium' style=''...
The Serbian team at the Assistant Minister of Education on the occasion of the 2022 International Olympiad in Robotics
(Translated from Serbian) Today, in the office of Assistant Minister Milan Pašić, a reception was held for representatives and participants of the Serbian national team at the international robotics Olympics, FIRST Global Challenge . [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link=‘https://www.sd.rs/biz/obrazovanje/srpski-tim-kod-pomocnika-ministra-prosvete-povodom-medunarodne-olimpijade-u-robotici-2022-2022-09-19’ target='_blank' color='' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color=''...
‘Kancha’ is playing basketball in Switzerland
(Translated from Nepali) Kathmandu - He can pick up 12 carbon balls and put them in the basket in one minute. He is the robot 'Kancha' made by Nepalese students, who is ready to show acrobatics at a gathering of students from 180 countries in Geneva,...
ARGENTINE STUDENTS WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE FIRST GLOBAL CHALLENGE 2022 ROBOTICS WORLD CUP
(Translated from Spanish) From October 13 to 16, the national delegation made up of five students from the Roberto Rocca Technical School in Campana, Buenos Aires will compete with more than 190 countries in Geneva. Teams work together to complete tasks in a game themed around...
Deputy Mayor Allan Pollard meets with Belize High School’s robotics team
Dерutу Мауоr Аllаn Роllаrd аt thе іnvіtаtіоn оf Веlіzе Ніgh Ѕсhооl (ВНЅ), vіѕіtеd thе іnѕtіtutіоn thіѕ wееk tо mееt wіth thе ѕсhооl’ѕ rоbоtісѕ tеаm, whісh іѕ рrераrіng fоr а mајоr еvеnt. Тhе ВНЅ rоbоtісѕ tеаm іѕ рrераrіng tо rерrеѕеnt thе соuntrу іn thе 2022 FIRST Glоbаl...
Mashable: 4 girls and 1 boy set to represent Malaysia at Swiss Robot Olympics
They're between the ages of 15 and 17, but these four girls and a boy from Malaysia are set to represent their nation at the annual Swiss Robot Olympics, FIRST Global Challenge. The team, consisting of Nur Alia Sofiah Binti Zainordin (16) as the Team Captain,...
North Delta girl among group of teens set to represent Canada at robotics ‘Olympics’
A North Delta girl is among a group of Lower Mainland teens preparing to represent Canada at an Olympics-style international robotics competition next month. Lulu Golland, 17, of North Delta; Emmy Hylton, 14, of Vancouver; Avneet Batra, 16, of Surrey; Allen Zhou, 17, of Port Moody;...
Vincy Robotics team to compete in global robotics competition
A team from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Robotics (Vincy Robotics) is elated to be able to compete at the 2022 FIRST Global robotics Challenge in Geneva, Switzerland, from 13-16 October 2022. Its team consists of students from secondary and tertiary education in Saint Vincent and...
The international robotics competition of high school students will be carbon neutral
(Translated from Slovak) The FIRST Global international robotics competition has announced this year's theme. The students' task will be to build robots designed for a game that symbolizes the active capture of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. A new Slovak team is also fighting for victory...
St Kitts & Nevis to send team to FIRST Global Robotics Olympics
A ten member team will be representing St Kitts and Nevis in the FIRST Global robotics olympics Challenge at Geneva, Switzerland. The team will be divided into two groups: the traveling team and the supporting local team. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link='https://caribbean.loopnews.com/content/st-kitts-nevis-send-team-first-global-robotics-olympics' target='_blank' color='' hover_color=''...
Belize wins gold in FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition
Belize has won gold at the FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition in Geneva, Switzerland. This is the first time that a team from the Caribbean has won or medaled at the competition. The previous best performance was Jamaica’s 15th place in 2018. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story'...
Guyana’s children to participate in FIRST Global Robotics Competition in Geneva
The STEMGuyana team of individuals who visited with the president was part of the contingent that will represent Guyana at the FIRST Global Robotics competition in Geneva, Switzerland in October 2022. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link='https://villagevoicenews.com/2022/08/16/guyanas-children-to-participate-in-first-global-robotics-competition-in-geneva' target='_blank' color='' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color='' hover_background_color=''...
President tasks ministries to work with STEM Guyana on robotics education
President Irfaan Ali today tasked the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Service and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport to work with STEM Guyana to expand robotics and programming across Guyana. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link='https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/08/15/news/guyana/president-tasks-ministries-to-work-with-stem-guyana-on-robotics-education/' target='_blank' color='' hover_color='' border_color=''...
Chuquisaca already has its representatives for the 5th FIRST Global Bolivia
Stiff competition. Chuquisaca met yesterday its representatives at the 5th FIRST Global Bolivia National Robotics Tournament, who already have their minds set on the final to be held in Sucre on September 17 and 18. The departmental stage of this competition took place this Saturday with 12...
A team of young people from Genoa at the world robotics competition
(Translated from Italian) Five young people from Genoa will represent Italy at the FIRST Global Challenge, the world robotics competition to be held in Geneva from 13 to 16 October 2022. The iBot Genova team, composed of one girl and four boys, has been selected to...
Volunteer school of robotics from the Kyrgyz Republic will compete for the championship in Switzerland
The editors of Akchabar talked with the founders of the TemiRobots volunteer robotics school. Saltanat Mambetisaeva and Zhyldyz Apishova have been performing with their students and robots on the FIRST Global international arena for four years now. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story (in Russian)' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link='https://www.akchabar.kg/ru/article/obrazovanie/v-bishkeke-volontery-otkryli-besplatnuyu-shkolu-robototehnik/'...
Cayman Islands National Robotics Team 2022 announced
Nine Cayman Islands high school students will head to Geneva, Switzerland to compete against robotics teams from 180 countries in the FIRST Global Challenge, running from 13-16 Oct. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link='https://www.caymancompass.com/2022/07/11/cayman-islands-national-robotics-team-2022-announced/' target='_blank' color='' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color='' hover_background_color='' font_style='' font_weight='' text_align=''...
Zimbabwe’s Tynwald High School Qualifies For Global Robotics Competition
The Harare high school became the fourth to qualify for the global competition set for Switzerland in October. The 12-Member Robotics Team clinched the first runner-up position at the Pan African Robotics Competition. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full Story' icon='fa-arrow-right' icon_color='' link='https://iharare.com/tynwald-high-qualifies-for-global-robotics-competition/' target='_blank' color='' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color=''...
Call for the fifth “First Global Bolivia”
(Translated from Spanish) The organization of the "FIRST Global Challenge Bolivia" is summoning teenagers who love robotics for the fifth year. On this occasion, in which the national government is involved for the first time, the call is open in two categories and the final will...
Aramex back Nigeria’s team for global robotics challenge
Aramex has thrown its weight behind Nigeria’s bid to shine at the FIRST Global robotics Challenge slated for Geneva, Switzerland later this year. Ahead of the global competition, Team Nigeria Robotics try-outs took place at the Syrian Club, in Ikoyi, Lagos, with the aim of selecting...
NZ Hawke’s Bay Students Taking On The Globe At The Olympics Of Robotics
Four Hawke’s teenagers have been selected for the New Zealand Blackbots team to represent the country at the October FIRST Global robotics Challenge in Geneva, Switzerland. The innovative robotics inventors from Karamu and Havelock North High School were chosen from their school teams who have...
The 2021 FIRST GLOBAL CUBESAT PROTOTYPE CHALLENGE
Over 90 teams from around the world accepted this newest challenge from FIRST Global to tackle a pressing world problem by designing, building and launching a nano-satellite, called a CubeSat Prototype, into the lower layers of earth’s atmosphere. Their satellite would be used to record...
The Messi of robotics are from La Rioja and designed a platform to study during the pandemic
(Translated from Spanish) There are five students from a secondary school in that province who represented the country in the Robotics World Cup and came out seventh in the general ranking among 176 countries. They programmed and created devices to solve problems in their community. They assure...
TAMS student led USA team that won international robotics competition
Austin Liu, a 16-year-old student at the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, led Team USA in winning an international robotics competition recently with a robot called “the plastic pirate.” The team designed the little water robot to power through Texas ponds, lakes and reservoirs and...
FIRST Global Challenge: RO team awarded at international robotics competition
Romanian Robotics Team, made up of students of the Traian Lalescu High School in Hunedoara, ranked first in the health category of the FIRST Global Challenge, an international robotics competition, Mediafax reported. They were among the winning teams in Phase 1 of the Solutions Challenge. Professor...
North Texas students win top honors in international robotics competition
The team earned a slew of awards partly owed to their creation of a robot that collects plastic waste from the ocean. A community group of North Texas students recently became the first U.S. team to win the top award in the history of FIRST Global,...
Greek Students Triumph in World Robotics Challenge
The Greek national Robotics team recently won three medals in the FIRST Global robotics olympiad, held between June and September. The “FIRST Global Challenge Team Greece” won one gold, one silver and one bronze medals. The robotics olympiad FIRST Global Challenge called “Discover and Recover 2021”...
Triple Greek distinction in the Robotics Olympiad
Not one, not two but three medals were won by the Greek National Robotics Team "FIRST Global Challenge Team Greece", which represented Greece in the robotics olympiad FIRST Global Challenge "Discover and Recover 2021" held virtually, from June to September, 2021. Specifically, the Greek team managed...
Afghan All-Girl Robotics Team Wins FIRST Global’s Judges Award
Afghanistan’s all-girl robotics team has won the Judges Award in FIRST Global’s 2021 competition. According to the (FGC), this award is given annually to the team that performs well and works hard. The girls displayed three of their new robots in a virtual competition in the FIRST...
Satellite team wins FIRST Global Challenge second place in ASEAN
Cambodia’s students participating in the FIRST Global Challenge 2021 ranked 22nd out of 160 countries and third place for Education in Phase 1 of the Solutions Challenge for their satellite project that garnered international recognition but the crème de la crème is that they ranked...
Guam’s Starbase 2.0 builds ‘seed bomb’ to tackle effects of erosion, deforestation
Guam's own Starbase 2.0 built a "seed bomb" and a robot to help launch it into areas to help reduce erosion, deforestation and landslides on island. The project was one of three phases of the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Global Challenge...
FIRST Global Challenge: young inventors from Kazakhstan are defending the honor of the country
(Translated from Kazakh) They built a robotic generator to produce water from the air and a nano-satellite and launched it into the stratosphere. Due to the global pandemic, this year's competition was held online. About 20 high school students were selected for the national team. The laboratory...
South African Teenage Team Launches Prototype CubeSat
Capacity development is one of the goals of the African space programme, which the African Space Strategy reiterates. Accordingly, Africa seeks to train professionals in the space industry who can leverage space technology to solve Africa’s challenges. In this regard, South Africa’s SpringBots team is...
Afghanistan’s All-Female Robotics Team Continues Building Robots in Qatar
DOHA—It has been only a little over a month since nine members of Afghanistan’s all-female robotics team were evacuated from Afghanistan, and the young women are already busy building robots for an upcoming international competition. The team was already trying to leave Afghanistan when the Taliban...
Team Bangladesh developing gamified education in FGC 2021
Team Bangladesh, the winners of FGC 2020, hopes to be among the top teams of this year’s competition. Together with Team Hungary, they are working on a challenge for FGC 2021 known as the “Solutions Challenge” towards improving the education system of Bangladesh, Hungary and the...
France 24: Afghan girls robotics team design their future in Qatar
The nine members of an all-girl Afghan robotics team evacuated from Kabul to Qatar have built on their star status and captured hearts since fleeing their homeland. Now back in education and working on their entries for a global robotics competition, the girls worry about their...
SpringBots SA – the robotics team that’s making international waves
SpringBots are taking the world by storm, and if you found their team name to be intriguing, then you’ll be further invested in what they do. This dynamic robotics team uses STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) to build robots and compete in international...
MSNBC: Afghan all-girl robotics team continues training after fleeing Taliban
Co-founder of the FIRST Global Afghan Girls Robotic Team, Roya Mahboob, joins Morning Joe to discuss the team’s mission and recent experience in Afghanistan, including how they plan to continue their studies and further the values they’ve learned through FIRST Global and FIRST. [button size='medium' style='' text='Original...
Meet the SpringBots – SA’s Robotics Team Flying the Flag Internationally
The SpringBots are raising the South Africa flag high in the robotics and STEM arena, all the while building international relationships. Team SpringBots South Africa is taking robotics to the future youth! The robotics team was established in 2018 and now represents SA on the international...
STEM/ROBOTICS HAS POSITIVE INFLUENCE ON YOUNG LIVES IN SURINAME
(Translated from Dutch) Robotics Team Suriname is in week 11 of 14 of the 2021 FIRST Global Challenge (FGC) 'Discover and Recover' and wants to increase awareness about the importance of STEM education by sharing the testimonials below . Some of the mentors and students of Team...
Youth Hour Program: Sudan’s participation in international competitions
CDE’s Mbarete BOT team competes in FIRST Global robotics Olympics
(Translated from Spanish) Young people from Ciudad del Este that make up the “Mbarete BOT” team are competing in the “FIRST Global” robotics Olympics, an online event based in the United States in which 190 countries participate with a representative team per country. In this event...
A high school team from Japan and Romania collaboratively develops a wearable device for the mental care of Corona
(Translated from Japanese) At the World High School Science Olympiad "FIRST Global Challenge (FGC)", the Japanese national team is working with the Romanian national team on a research project to prevent the suicide of women, which has surged due to the corona disaster, with science and...
Aburi Girls SHS To Represent Ghana At Global Robotics Competition
Twelve students from the Aburi Girls’ Senior High School in the Eastern region are representing Ghana this year in the 2021 FIRST Global Challenge — the fifth iteration of the global Olympics-style robotics event. This year’s theme, “Discover & Recover,” focuses on overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic...
12 Malaysian students create a network of air purifiers
Responding to the challenge in the international robotics stage competition, 2021 FIRST Global Challenge, 12 school students came forward to apply science in finding a solution to the issue of air pollution in this country which until now seems to have no end. [button size='medium' style='' text='Full...
Guatemalan National Robotics Team stands out in world competition
(Translated from Spanish) Year after year the National Robotics Team is formed, a team of young people that represents Guatemala to compete at the international level. This year's selection is made up of 20 members and currently 12 of them participate in the renowned world event...
Guyana partners with St Kitts to innovate water management and yield improvement solutions for rice farmers across the globe
Teams Guyana and St Kitts consolidated their ideas to innovate a combination koker management–farm management system that uses sensors, motors, gears and smart technology to automate the kokers used by rice farmers. The system also introduces sensors into the farm landscape to provide critical information...
GUATEMALAN ROBOTICS TEAM STANDS OUT IN OLYMPIC-TYPE WORLD COMPETITION
(Translated from Spanish) Since last June 27, 2021, a group of 12 young people that make up the Guatemala Robotics Team has highlighted their participation in the FIRST Global Challenge , a world-class competition that is under development, where until now they are positioned among the...
National Robotics Team FIRST Global Challenge Team Greece: A course full of distinctions!
(Translated from Greek) Listening to Mr. Tassos Kollias, the trainer and mentor of the First Global Challenge Team Greece, to tell the story , the vision and the successes of the team from its inception until today, you can only feel proud of these children, who...
SERBIAN TEAM FOR THE FIFTH TIME AT THE OLYMPICS IN ROBOTICS
(Translated from Serbian) At the suggestion of the International FIRST Committee (FIRST Global), the team led by the students of the Creative Pen High School, together with their mentors, Vuk Vujović, Gorica Nedeljković Bogdanović and Aleksandra Nedeljković, will represent our country at the International Robotics Olympiad. Although...
Aburi Girls’ SHS Represents Ghana At The 2021 FIRST Global Challenge
Ghana is part of over 160 countries participating in the 2021 FIRST Global Challenge — the fifth iteration of the global Olympics-style robotics event. This year’s theme, “Discover & Recover,” focuses on overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic by discovering opportunities for innovative recovery. From social projects...
Holding the “FIRST Global Challenge” World Championship with the participation of 177 countries online
(Translated from Persian) According to ILNA, Mohammad Reza Karami, the head coach of the Iranian team in the "FIRST Global Challenge" World Championships, said regarding the holding of these competitions this year: "The FIRST Global Challenge World Championships this year from July 7, 2021, with the...
São Tomé and Príncipe participates in the FIRST Global Challenge
(Translated from Portuguese) With a team of 8 young people, from 15 to 17 years old, São Tomé and Príncipe is participating in the FIRST Global Challenge. These students, all studying at the Portuguese School, completed the first phase of the ' SolutionsChallenge' . Over the...
Irish students compete in global robotics contest with system to aid older people
A group of nine secondary school students is set to represent Ireland on the world stage at a robotics competition. The group from Confey College Leixlip in Co Kildare are through to the final stages of the FIRST Global Challenge and will be up against teams...
Afghan robotics team: Inspirational women begin new chapter
In a case that received global attention, a group of young scientists endured an agonising wait before they finally escaped Kabul. The BBC spoke to them about their ordeal - and why they fear for the future for Afghan women...
The Serbian team is at the jubilee International Robotics Olympics for the fifth time
(Translated from Serbian) The already experienced Serbian team is working hard on all tasks, along with school obligations, and as they say, everyone is very excited about the end of the 2021 season, which is planned for September 28. At the suggestion of the International FIRST Committee,...
Robotics: for everyone
(Translated from Turkmen) Under the leadership of our esteemed President, the education system is making great strides. This allows schoolchildren to participate in international competitions and achieve great results. Students of Ashgabat's 97th Specialized Secondary School regularly participate in the FIRST Global Challenge (FGC) Olympiad. Each...
6 students participate in 2021 FIRST Global Robotics Challenge
(Translated from Dutch) Until the end of September 2021, the FIRST Global “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology” international Robotics Challenge (FGC), in which Suriname is participating for the 5th consecutive year, will run. Every year, according to team manager/mentor Ashna Mahepal, who is...
The innovation with which high school students could conquer the world. The gentlest method of sterilizing masks
(Translated from Romanian) The students of a high school from Hunedoara participate in a world robotics competition, presenting several innovations made in the science laboratory. One of them would reduce the cost of masks. The theoretical high school "Traian Lalescu" from Hunedoara can be proud of one...
Young Chadians make robots to participate in the FIRST Global Challenge
(Translated from French) Young Chadians under the age of 18 will participate in the 2021 edition of the FIRST Global Challenge. It is an international robotics competition bringing together all the countries of the world. The FIRST Global Challenge is an Olympic-type competition that takes place each...
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...
Team Venezuela in the 2021 FIRST Global Challenge
(Translated from Spanish) With the mission of spreading innovation and participation in science and technology among young people in Venezuela, Team Venezuela for the robotics world 2021 FIRST Global Challenge has worked to spread STEM education (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) in Venezuela while they look to...
Dr. Yanga College students develop an app called Project PAPEL
Providing quality education to every child in the world has always been a challenge to all of us, but with the COVID-19 virus being around, it isn't easier; it made things far more complicated. Students are forced to take distance learning, resulting in questioning the...
Not yet finished high school, this group of young Cambodians make CubeSat satellites ready to launch soon and other robot projects to compete in world-class programs
(Translated from Cambodian) Recently, a group of Cambodian students from E2STEM participated in a world-class competition called the 2021 FIRST Global Challenge. In this program, Cambodian student teams compete with hundreds of other countries. Worldwide. According to a representative of a Cambodian team, Cheang Thorn Sopanha told the...
TAMCC’s Robotics Club to launch prototype satellite into earth’s lower atmosphere
The research spacecrafts called CubeSats are a class of nanosatellites with a standardised size of 10cm³. Unlike CubeSats which are launched into space using rocket-powered launch vehicles, or deployed from the International Space Station, CubeSat prototypes, mainly used in aerial research, are modelled after space-ready...
Five Nigerian pupils for robotics Olympics
Five pupils drawn from secondary schools across the country have been selected to represent Nigeria at this year’s FIRST Global Robotics Olympics tagged the virtual Challenge 2021. The pupils –Simon Adikwu, Olaiya Kayode, Vihaan Nagarkar, Amarachi Oji and Chiugo Nnoruka were selected from a try-out session...
FIRST Global Challenge Team Seychelles presents tidal energy project
The ten-member Team Seychelles who are partaking in this year’s virtual FIRST Global Challenge, yesterday presented to a panel of professional stakeholders their project for the solutions challenge. The global competition, which this year has a record 175 participating countries, was officially launched virtually on June...
The Director of E-Learning at the Ministry of Education meets the Aden Governorate team participating in the FIRST Global competition
(Translated from Arabic) Ms. Nahed Omar, Director General of E-Learning at the Ministry of Education, today met in her office the Aden governorate team participating in the FIRST Global Challenge competition. The meeting discussed the Aden team project in challenging solutions in education in which the team...
The start of the competition (2021 FIRST Global Challenge) with the participation of the people of Aleppo
(Translated from Arabic) Dr. Sawsan Asjee’ at the Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering at the University of Aleppo, and a certified robotics trainer at the Syrian Scientific Informatics Society, explained that the “Sibots” team, an independent team, launched from a group...
Oman roots for environment in global STEM challenge
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...
A 22-year old Bangladeshi entrepreneur making food-delivery robots in South Korea
(This story is about an alumni of FIRST Global Team Bangladesh 2017). Labib was only a 20-year-old undergraduate student at Stanford university when he, along with his friends, began meeting investors from prominent companies like Amazon, Hyundai etc. in different parts of the world, starting from...
Health Minister Kikilias Teleconference with the Greek National Robotics Team
(Translated from Greek) The Minister of Health Vassilis Kikilias held a teleconference today with the Greek National Robotics Team, which is participating in the FIRST Global Challenge robotics olympiad, taking place through September 18 with the participation of national teams from 174 countries. The team consists of...
Team Tunisia Interview with Radio Sfax
Students from the Los Pinos Foundation technical high school participate in the robotics World Cup
(Translated from Spanish) Students from Fundación Los Pinos technical high school will represent Uruguay in the robotics world championship, FIRST Global Challenge in a team in which there will also be students from Rivera and Migues. As a reward for their good performance in the 2019 FIRST...
Serbian Kreativno Pero at the International Robotics Olympiad “FIRST Global Challenge 2021 – Discover and Recover”
(Translated from Serbian). At the suggestion of the International FIRST Committee (FIRST Global), the team led by the students of the Gymnasium "Kreativno Pero", together with their mentors Vuk Vujović, Gorica Nedeljković Bogdanović and Aleksandra Nedeljković, will represent our country at the international robotics olympiad. Although the...
Newsroom: 16 Guyanese youth will tackle global problems in int’l robotics competition
A group of 16 young Guyanese will represent the country at the FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition, where they are expected to participate in various challenges that will require the use of robotics to solve real-world problems. The team has been selected by local youth technology organisation,...
Bolivian Cochabamba team represents the country in the FIRST Global Challenge “Robotics World Cup”
(Translated from Spanish) The Illapabot team from Cochabamba, made up of students Sandra Arias, Bernal Heidi and Juan Pablo Aranibar, was the winner of the fourth Robotics Tournament organized by Tu Beca Bolivia and which took place last weekend through virtual platforms. More than 300 teams from...
VIETNAM STUDENTS IN INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
(Translated from Vietnamese) FIRST Global Challenge (FGC) is a robotics and STEAM competition aimed at high school students organized in Olympic style on a global scale. Each year, the FIRST Global Challenge is held in a different country, to highlight and find solutions to major problems...
BBC Bangla: Bangladesh’s Tech Academy is teaching in the United States | Episode-136
https://youtu.be/j8OO-gBZVbc?t=237...
Students from La Rioja won the 2021 “Robotics Cup” and will represent the country in the FIRST Global Challenge
High school students from all over Argentina faced the challenge of programming and robots, creating solutions related to COVID-19. Now they will face off against 160 countries in the FIRST Global Challenge (Translated from Spanish) The team from the province of La Rioja was the one that scored the most...
The Afghan Dreamers Aim to Save Lives
In Afghanistan, the threat of COVID-19 is growing each day, and experts believe one of the biggest challenges could be a lack of access to lifesaving technology. In response to the governor’s plea for help, Herat Province has gained an ally in the Afghan Dreamers,...
Director of STEMGuyana impacts many students
Guyanese-born, Karen Abrams, the MBA executive director of STEMGuyana, said women make up close to 50 percent of the population, yet they are woefully underrepresented in STEM careers as the world has moved aggressively to technology oriented businesses and economies. Abrams, a recipient of the prestigious...
St. Kitts-Nevis Robotics Association Holds First Year Anniversary And Awards Ceremony
Basseterre: St. Kitts, February 8, 2021: On February 4th, the St. Kitts-Nevis Robotics Association (SKNRA) held its first year anniversary and awards ceremony at the Immaculate Conception Catholic School’s hall. In his address to the gathering, Executive Director of the SKNRA, Mr. Shaqueed Benjamin, outlined the...
Robogee – The Story of Team Hope
This is another take on the story of Team Hope — the Syrian Refugees who became world champions. How did a series of pop-up garage healthcare clinics in Lebanon in 2013 eventually led to a team of Syrian refugee children called Team Hope winning first prize...
Global STEM Programs Shape Future STEM Leaders
Thanks to a number of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) competitions and programs happening all over the world, kids everywhere are sharpening their technical skills. Here are just a few programs that are developing future generations of scientists and engineers: A group of high...
Sahaza Marline on Madagascar’s performance at the FIRST Global Challenge
31 October, 2020: Madagascar national robotics team was ranked 5th out of 175 participants worldwide during the closing ceremony of the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge (FGC), a quantitative criterion-based ranking. Along with this achievement, the two mentors of the Malagasy team received the award for...
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...
STEM Guyana grabs the 27th spot in FIRST Global Robotic Challenge
STEM Guyana has, once again, ‘pulled off’ an impressive performance at the FIRST Global robotic Challenge which was held virtually this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The team – the youngest to date to take part in this competition for Guyana – placed 27th out...
Team Cambodia grabs 10th spot in global STEM challenge
A team of 12 high school students of E2STEM Preah Yukunthor High School were ranked 10th among 175 participating countries in the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge, an international robotic competition created for high school students around the world to display their knowledge about Science, Technology, Engineering and...
These Caribbean teams were named winners at a recent international STEM competition
In a celebratory live video on Saturday, FIRST Global highlighted the projects by teams from different countries participating in the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge. The hosts of the virtual event also announced the 2020 award and prize winners of the challenge. Among the prize winners are Teams...
Introducing Team Bangladesh: World champions of ‘FIRST Global Challenge’ robotics competition
Team Bangladesh has become the champion among 174 countries in the biggest global robotics competition for high school students titled "FIRST Global Challenge" which lasted for three months from July to September. In these three months, the 10 young innovators developed life-saving devices and robots, participated...
Guatemala’s National Robotics Team Reaches 25th out of 175 in the FIRST Global Challenge
(Translated from Spanish.) In 2019, Guatemala occupied position 71 of the FIRST Global Challenge, which organizes an Olympic robotics challenge every year, and this year it climbed to position 25. The olympiad is intended to inspire more than two billion young people around the world to develop...
BBC Bangla: Bangladesh’s success in FIRST Global international robot olympiad
(Translated from Bangla) [vc_video link='https://youtu.be/nzKcRoxZEXA?t=49'] Bangladesh tops the Olympics. What surprised you? That may not be possible at the Olympic Games, but Bangladesh has already shown that in the Robot Olympics. The FIRST Global Challenge of organizing robotics. This time it has been arranged virtually due to the...
The Daily Star: FGC global robotics competition: Team Bangladesh ranks 1st over 5 weeks
Bangladesh has ranked number one among 174 participating countries over the last 5 weeks at FIRST Global Challenge (FGC), an international robotics competition, held annually for high school students. Team Bangladesh has to hold on to the position for five more weeks to become the winner...
SFAX NEWS: The First Skills Club Of Sfax Participates In The “Olympic Games For Robotics” 2020 Virtually
A team of inventors from the First Skills Club in Sfax is participating in the “FIRST Global Challenge” Olympic Games for Robotics virtually, due to the Corona pandemic, which started from July until September 2020. The nominated team includes: Islam Belhaj, second year secondary school, Habib Mouzoun...
The Greek National Robotics Team in the FIRST Global Challenge 2020
(Translated from Greek) The Greek National Team Robotics «FIRST Global Challenge Team Greece» year represents Greece in the global competition the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge, which is being performed digitally for the first time -thanks to the pandemic- from 1 the July to September 23 entitled «Connecting...
Six students from North Al Batinah schools represent the Sultanate of Oman in the “FIRST Global” competition
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Oman TEAM-FIRSTGlobalChallenge (@omanteamfgc) on Sep 4, 2020 at 9:01am PDT ...
HVG: We can excite Hungarian high school students at an international robotics and programming competition
This year, the five-person FGC Team will represent Hungary in the programming program the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge, founded by the engineer-inventor Dean Kamen. This year, the high school members of a five-person Hungarian team, FGC Team Hungary, will also compete in the FIRST Global Challenge,...
Lokantar: Team Nepal competing in FIRST Global Challenge – International Robot Olympics
Kathmandu, 4 September (2020) – FIRST Global Challenge – International Robot Olympics 2020 is being held online with the theme of “Connecting Communities”, where all countries have participated along with Nepal. This year, Team Nepal is formed with Team Mentors Er. Manoj Lekhak, Er. Niraj Pradhan and...
Taohoatre: The Vietnam Robotics team is preparing to enter the international competition
(Translated from Vietnamese) The 2020 FIRST Global Challenge organized with the theme "Connecting Communities to connect the young community of STEAM enthusiasts around the world, is a playground for talented and creative young people in technology." The FIRST Global Challenge is a place to make friends with...
Guatemalan students participate in the FIRST Global robotics contest
https://www.facebook.com/teamguatemalafgc/videos/932040080626922/ (In Spanish)...
Milenio: Cervantes robotics team delivers hygiene supplies to schools in Mexico
(Translated from Spanish) Education institutions still do not register their students' attendance to avoid infections by SARS-CoV-2 , however, they are already preparing the hygiene materials necessary for returning to school. Given this, members of the Cervantes College robotics decided to collect material and donate it...
Sudan Journal: Sudan team in the FIRST Global Competition
(Translated from Arabic) In this article, we will shed light on the participation of the Sudan team in the FIRST Global Challenge and the STEM approach to teaching and their experience in this challenge through these excerpts to familiarize the reader with these themes. Who are they? The...
Publinews: Project Balam fosters STEM across Guatemala in the ‘new normal’
(Translated from Spanish) Through the National Robotics Meeting, better known as Project Balam, thousands of young people throughout the national territory have had the opportunity to enhance their learning in STEM areas, in addition to putting their soft skills into practice by working as a team...
UBT: Successful Kosovo team continues to present the country in the robotics competition “FIRST Global Challenge”
(Translated from Albanian) The team made up of Elta Bajrami, Albana Hajdini, Vlera Saraçi and Penda Smajlaj, with Elita Hajrizi as mentor, have been representing Kosovo in the biggest international robotics challenge, the FIRST Global Challenge, which because of COVID-19 is being held online, for a...
HCH TV: Group of young Hondurans will participate in world robotics competition “FIRST Global”
(Translated from Spanish) The organization Shoulder to Shoulder fulfilling the mission of providing a STEM education to young people in Intibucá has given young people an opportunity to represent Honduras in the world robotics competition organized by FIRST Global. The team has participated in this world competition...
Revista WOS: Team Chile in the first places of the robotics contest FIRST Global Challenge
(Translated from Spanish) A 100% female robotics team made up of 8 girls between the ages of 15 and 18 represent Chile in the annual robotics competition called the FIRST Global Challenge. This year, due to the current world situation, the competition has been carried out online, carrying...
Midi Madigasikara: 2020 FIRST Global Challenge – Active support from the Ministry of Culture to the Madagascar national team
(Translated from French) To recall, the Malagasy national team is currently ranked 5th place in the annual robotics competition 2020 edition (First Global Challenge 2020). Seven races from the end of the competition, it is still possible for our 5 youngsters to gain a few more...
Khmer Times: New STEM skill programme prepares students for global competition
After years of promoting the benefits of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills in high school education, young Cambodians are seen to be sharpening their skills to keep pace with the rest of the world. Ros Daro, a teacher in the pilot E2STEM school programme,...
Dhaka Tribune: Team Bangladesh shines at global robotics competition
Team Bangladesh has been on a roll in the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge, holding the top position for five consecutive weeks. The 13-week-long annual robotics competition, styled after the Olympics, is being held online this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Every year, youths from around the...
263 Chat: Zim Robotics Team Ready To Conquer The World
I am excited to be part of the 2020 Zimbabwe National Robotics Team that is participating in one of the world’s biggest challenges in robotics, the FIRST Global Challenge. FIRST stands for “For Inspiration and Recognition in Science and Technology.” This robotics challenge, done the Olympic...
Star Nieuws: Team Suriname – A STEM application can no longer be ignored in society
(Translated from Dutch) STEM (Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) application has become an indispensable part of society, which is increasingly dependent on technology. This has been particularly evident in the current Covid-19 pandemic. The Young Help Suriname Foundation has prepared 9 Surinamese youths to participate in...
The Independent Probe: Team Liberia – Inspiring science and technology the best remedy for globalization
Liberia national robotic team, FIRST (For Inspiration and recognition of science and technology) Global Team has over the years represented the millions of youth across Liberia who have the passion for Science Technology engineering and mathematics education on the international stage. FIRST Global Team Liberia believed that...
abc: Itapúa team represents Paraguay in world robotics competition
(Translated from Spanish) Young people from the Itapúa department who are part of an Olympic robotics team participate, on behalf of Paraguay, in the FIRST Global world competition, which includes participants from 193 countries. The competition should have taken place in-person, but due to the covid...
Harian Metro: SMKTBB students compete on the world stage
Translated from Malay. Kuala Pilah: Five students of Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Tunku Besar Burhanuddin (SMKTBB), Seri Menanti, were selected to represent Malaysia in the First Global Challenge (Virtual Competition) 2020. The five participants involved two Form Five students, namely Muhammad Faiz Fakhrullah Zulkarnain, Imran Syakir Azmi and...
CNC: Palmiran students participate once again in the FIRST Global Challenge of robotics
https://www.facebook.com/FGCteamColombia/videos/353207912473262/...
Cuyo Noticias: A team of Argentine students participates in the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge Robotics Event
(Translated from Spanish.) There are 6 adolescents from schools in Greater Buenos Aires, coordinated by Educabot, the Argentine partner of FIRST Global. The team is developing an automatable device for everyday tasks and competes with more than 150 countries in weekly challenges using programming, animation and 3D...
Ashgabat Innovative: Preparations for the International Robotic Olympiad from Turkmen students
(Translated from Turkmen) The FIRST Global Challenge robotics olympiad is held annually among millions of young people. The FIRST Global Challenge will be held online from June 27 to September 26 this year, covering the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. In this major international...
IMARA Comoros once again represents the country internationally
(Translated from French) Due to the covid-19 that is rampant in the world today, the robotics competition is being played remotely from July 24 to September 26. They are 7 young adolescents to participate in this competition and hope to win the trophy. They are 7 Comorians,...
The Bulletin: Interview with the SpringBots South Africa Team participating in the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge
https://www.facebook.com/thebulletinsa/videos/309290597011569/...
Gulftimes: Texas A&M at Qatar mentoring 19th-ranked Qatar robotics team
High school students with an interest in robotics from schools across Qatar have formed Team Qatar, the STEM-vengers, to represent the country in the FIRST Global Challenge, an “Olympics”-style robotics event. The FIRST Global Challenge invites each country to send a team to compete in a...
Russian Planet: FIRST Global Challenge 2020 for young engineers of Russia
For the third year in a row, the robotic club "Robomaster" named after Sofia Kovalevskaya represents the Russian Federation at the international youth robotics Olympiads "FIRST Global Challenge" under the flag of the Russian Federation. The main goal of this youth competition is to develop an...
Love FM: Team of Belize students compete in the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Team Belize FGC2020 (@fgc20teambelize) on Sep 4, 2020 at 11:55am PDT ...
Newsroom: Prime Minister of Guyana pledges continued support for STEM
Prime Minister Brigadier Mark Phillips said the Government will continue to support the work programme of STEM Guyana, which is in keeping with its vision for youth development. The Prime Minister made these remarks during a meeting with Executive Director of STEM Guyana, Ms. Karen Abrams,...
Studio Sifaka: The FIRST Global Challenge – Madagascar continues to climb in the ranking
(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...
Angola among the 10 best classified in the 2020 robotics world championship
(Translated from Portuguese.) The world robotics championship has been taking place since 2017 and this year Angola is among the best classified players in the tournament, taking into account the situation the world is experiencing, the championship is happening online, at that moment, the Angolan team,...
Talent knows no boundaries: Serbian students represent our country at the International Robotics Olympics
Translated from Serbian. At the suggestion of the International FIRST Committee Association (FIRST Global), a team of students (Arman Lupša and Petar Rogić) and students (Nina Latinović, Nikolina Milosavljević, Jelena Tomašević, Nina Pešić, Sara Jašović, Sofija Kurćubić and Una Žarković) of the Gymnasium "Kreativno pero", together...
Federation’s Robotics team competes in FIRST Global Challenge
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts — The St. Kitts-Nevis Robotics Team is competing in the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge – Connecting Communities, which runs July 1 to September 26. The event will be virtual due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. “The COVID-19 situation changed the whole dynamic of us travelling,...
All-Girl Robotics Team from Afghanistan Debuts Low-Cost Ventilator for Coronavirus Patients
A robotics team made up entirely of young women from Afghanistan has developed a lightweight, low-cost ventilator that, pending approval, may soon be seen in hospitals across the country amid the coronavirus fight. The Afghan Robotics Team first began developing the ventilator back in March, after...
Seychelles’ FIRST Global Challenge launched, team members unveiled
The National Institute for Science, Technology and Innovation yesterday officially announced the launch of their participation in the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge and unveiled the six-strong members of Team Seychelles who hope to fly the Seychelles flag and improve the country’s ranking in the yearly international...
Liberia National Robotics Team Appreciates Sponsor and Founder
FIRST Global Team Liberia, a team being widely considered as Liberia National Robotics Team, on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, at the headquarters of the National Catholic Health Council of Liberia located in Gaye Town, Old Road, had a brief program with its founding National Coordinator,...
Cerbotics 4400 will represent Mexico for the second time
The lagoon team of Colegio Cervantes is positioned as a strong competitor for the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge. Despite the conditions, the 2020 FIRST Global Challenge started at the end of June, with the central theme of connecting communities. Among six teams from the republic, Cerbotics 4400 from Colegio...
Fast Company: Afghanistan’s all-girl robotics team is building emergency ventilators out of car parts
Even though Herat, Afghanistan, is on lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, many of Nahid Rahimi’s days during the pandemic have started with a drive to a mechanic’s workshop. Nahid, 17, is on Afghanistan’s all-girls robotics team, named the Afghan Dreamers; her teammate Somaya Farqui’s father...
All-girl Afghan robotic team tries to build cheap ventilators to help COVID-19 patients
KABUL, April 26 (Xinhua) -- A team of six Afghan girls who won recognition at an international robotics contest has started to build low-cost ventilators as the coronavirus pandemic is on the rise in the country. "The world is facing a health crisis. The world is...
AP: Ventilator from old car parts? Afghan girls pursue prototype
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — On most mornings, Somaya Farooqi and four other teen-age girls pile into her dad’s car and head to a mechanic’s workshop. They use back roads to skirt police checkpoints set up to enforce a lockdown in their city of Herat, one...
Teenagers invited to learn robotics
A teenaged robotics team is on the hunt for bright sparks to take part in a global competition. The club, which will meet on Thursdays after school and Saturday afternoons, will be trained for an international robotics competition against teams from around the world later this...
Connectech Gears Up For Robotics Competition
Connectech is inviting “anyone interested in robotics, engineering, and technology who has passion, can be dedicated, committed and disciplined enough to represent the Island internationally at the Fourth Annual FIRST Global robotics competition in 2020.” A spokesperson said, “Fresh off the heels of their successful debut...
Robotics competition open to senior high schoolers
The official opening of Vietnam STEAM Challenge 2020 took place in FPT University in Hoa Lac campus in Hanoi on January 7 with total price of VND2 billion (US$ 86,319) Participating in the Vietnam STEAM Challenge, students will have a chance to apply their math knowledge...
Robotics school — Public and free, this is the school for “boys makers” that surprise in Misiones
(Translated from Spanish) An innovative project that emerged three years ago excites thousands of Misiones boys who seek to disembark in the world of technology by playing different roles and working on projects that combine artificial intelligence, computer programming, electronics and other disciplines. The School of Robotics...
Former Scholar-Athlete making an impact across the world
THAILAND (WHEC) — Thirteen years ago News10NBC featured Brockport senior Justin Worboys as our student-athlete of the week. Now, he's making a global impact. Worboys has been teaching science at the American School of Bangkok for the past three years. During his first year teaching in Thailand,...
Indigenous students who built robot return home from Dubai
A group of Indigenous students recently returned from a trip to Dubai where they competed against 189 countries in a robot building competition. The brothers were part of Team Canada that took part in the FIRST Global challenge. [See post for video.] --> Full Story ...
LYBOTICS Team on Next Wave
Guam teens take 3rd at World 2019 FIRST Global Challenge
The FIRST Global Challenge is known for being the “most exciting competition for robotics in the world.” On a quest to empower the globe’s youth to be a part of the generation that will change the world, FGC is not just about robots. Dean Kamen, founder...
How was Angola’s participation in the 2019 FIRST Global Robotics World Cup?
(Translated from Portuguese) Angola took part in the Robotics World Cup 2019 in October. The group of Angolans who represented in the Robotics World Cup in Dubai belongs to Arotech (Angola Robotics and Technology), young people who came together to inspire Angolan students and arouse interest...
The Andorra National Robotics Team finishes 15th in the FIRST Global Challenge held in Dubai
(Translated from Catalan) Andorra stands among the best in the world in robotics thanks to the great role of the national robotics team that finished in the 15th position of the FIRST Global Challenge held in Dubai, an international competition in which 189 countries participated this year. The national robotics team...
BBC: The young inventors of Burkina Faso at the 2019 FIRST Global Challenge
(Translated from French) Burkina Faso took part for the second time this year in the FIRST Global Challenge, an international robotics competition that brings together young people aged 14 to 18 from around the globe every year. The Burkina team of five young people, Jade, Cheick, Flore,...
The Supreme Council for Creativity and Excellence honors team FIRST Robotic Palestine
https://www.facebook.com/PalestineTV/videos/926692447714946/...
Overseas robotics competition builds more than future innovators
James and Lachlan teamed up with their robotics partners, Grace Lutheran College, and took part in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Global Competition (FGC) in Dubai. The challenge brought together 191 countries, each sending one team of high school students,...
A Palestinian student team won in an international robot competition
https://www.facebook.com/QouChannel/videos/539710153260906/ A Palestinian student team wins an international robot competition with Khalil Dar Omar, the winning team coach with Sarah Saleh, the team supervisor....
A Greek Robotics Team wins Bronze Medal at 2019 FIRST GLOBAL Challenge in Dubai
The Greek National Robotics Team “FIRST GLOBAL Challenge Team Greece» represented Greece in 2019 FIRST GLOBAL Challenge, held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on October 24-27, 2019. This is only the second year that Greece was represented officially in this competition. The Greek team ranked...
“Laura”, the robot created by five Honduran students and won a global robotics competition
(Translated from Spanish) After leaving their hometown behind in Camasca, Intibucá, and embarking on a long journey of thousands of kilometers to Dubai to participate in the FIRST Global Challenge global competition, five students of the Santo Tomás de Aquino Departmental Institute did not imagine that...
Team Albania on @TravelClub discussing the FIRST Global Challenge
https://www.facebook.com/RadioTravel/videos/593753941362517/ (Translated from Albanian) The National Robotics Team, which participated in the FIRST Global Challenge in Dubai, was at the Travel Club studios to share with us and all Radio Travel listeners their experience in the competition, also known as the World Robotics Olympics. The FIRST Global Challenge...
Kosovo in Dubai, the three robotics competitors excel
Syrian refugee team wins world robotics competition
A team of five Syrian refugee teams has won the world’s biggest robotics competition in Dubai by building a robot to help clean the pollution from the ocean in a themed game. Team Hope led the four-team alliance in the final of the 2019 FIRST Global...
Silver lining for Cambodian robotics
Team of five bags silver medal at the FIRST Global Challenge in Dubai. A TEAM of five young members, Sou Many, Ho Chanponleusophea, Cheang Thornsopanha, Keb Sreynaj and Pun Solita, aged between 15 to 16 years old, have won recognition with a silver medal in their...
Kharkivites in Top-10 at World Robotics Competition in Dubai
The Ukrainian National team finished 10th among approximately 180 participants at the First Global Challenge, a yearly Olympics-style robotics competition, which took place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on October 24-27. Ukraine was represented by teenagers aged 15 to 18 years: Kharkivites Oleksandr Plotnytskiy, Victor Zhernokleyev,...
Cayman Islands National Robotics team wins two awards in Dubai
Cayman’s national robotics team took home two awards after competing in the FIRST Global Challenge in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, held 25-27 Oct. The team of 11 students spent weeks preparing for the international meeting of minds. This year’s competition theme was ‘Ocean Opportunities’, which focussed on...
State robotics team wins silver medal in global challenge
SPRINGDALE -- The Tyson School of Innovation's robotics team returned last week with a silver medal from an overseas competition and new friendships from across the globe. Root Negative One represented the United States in this year's FIRST Global Challenge, held Oct. 24-27 in Dubai, United...
Kudos to Guam robotics team! We must do more to support students
Congratulations to Guam's robotics team for a stellar performance in Dubai. In October, a team of about 10 high school students represented Guam in the FIRST Global robotics competition in Dubai, Arab Emirates. Team Guam joined thousands of other students at the Dubai Festival Arena for what...
OUR ROBOT IS NOT ONLY PURE SCIENCE: Girls from Serbia Delight in Robotics Olympiad in Dubai!
Mina Matic, Sara Jasovic and Jelena Tomasevic are students of Gymnasium "Creative Feather", Jelena Zdravkovic is a student of Nis Electrotechnical "Mija Stanimirovic", and Tara Malovic is a Belgrade student who attends Serbian High School "Nikola Tesla" in Budapest. They are the team that represented Serbia...
Central Africans in Dubai for a robotics competition
Five young Central Africans took part in a robotics competition in Dubai from 24 to 27 October, which brought together more than 1,500 people from 191 countries. Their return to Bangui was triumphant. --> Full Story...
Team Sudan on Al Shorouk TV
AP — Dubai displays tech reputation with global robotics contest
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Seeking to bolster its image as a forward-looking metropolis, Dubai hosted the largest-ever international robotics contest this week, challenging young people from 190 countries to find solutions to global ocean pollution. Event organizers say their selection of Dubai as host reflects...
Wake Up / Who are the young robotics Albanians who won in Dubai?
Springdale robotics team bring home a silver medal from Dubai
SPRINGDALE -- The Tyson School of Innovation's robotics team returned Monday with a silver medal from an overseas competition and new friendships from across the globe. Root Negative One represented the U.S. in this year's FIRST Global Challenge, held Oct. 24 through Sunday in Dubai, United...
PHOTO: Macedonian high school students take part in FIRST Global Challenge – an event that inspires youth innovation ideas
(Translated from Macedonian) Macedonian high school students represented Macedonia at the FIRST Global Challenge held in Dubai this year from October 24th to 27th, winning the 65th place globally and second in the Balkans right behind Bosnia and Herzegovina, though the competition had a pivotal character Competitors...
Guam robotics team places 5th in the competition and 3rd in the ranked playoffs in Dubai
ROBOTICS: A Guam robotics team came in fifth in the FIRST Global Challenge and third in the ranked playoffs in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. More than 1,500 students ages 14-18 from 191 countries participated in the competition from Oct. 24 to 27. The team includes home-schooled...
Unprecedented silver medal for Israel at robotics Olympics in Dubai
The Israel robotics delegation, consisting of five Megiddo regional high school students, which is sponsored by the Technion, won a silver medal at the Global Challenge FIRST Global Olympics held over the weekend in Dubai. The Israeli team qualified for the final stage in the 191-nation...
Israeli teens win silver at robotics Olympics in Dubai for ocean-cleaning robot
Baku, October 31, AZERTAC An Israeli delegation of high school students returned victorious from the FIRST Global Challenge held in Dubai this weekend, winning a silver medal for their robot which they built to aid the global effort to clean the oceans, according to TPS news...
French robotics students in Dubai present answer to logistics of ocean plastic clean-up
Four French students are taking part in the FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai with the aim of finding a more efficient ways of cleaning plastic from the world’s oceans. Their mentor, Ronald Schildge, is a Computer Science teacher at the American School of Paris (ASP)....
Moroccan Teenagers Compete at International Robotics Challenge in Dubai
Rabat – A Moroccan team composed of four high school students took part in the 2019 FIRST Global Challenge in Dubai. The event took place in the Emirati city between October 24 and October 27. The FIRST Global Challenge is a yearly international robotics challenge where...
Belarus win FIRST Global Challenge 2019
MINSK, 29 October (BelTA) – A team from Belarus won the international robot technology competition FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai, BelTA learned from the official website of the competition. A total of 189 teams took part in the event. Belarus was represented by two school...
Young Moroccans take part in a beach cleaning robot project at the FIRST Global Championship
(Translated from Arabic) A young Moroccan team took part in the third edition of the FIRST Global Challenge Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Championship 2019, which was held in Dubai from October 24 to 27, in a project to clean beaches using robots. The project, which featured 1,500...
Dominicans win bronze medal in World Robotics Competition in Dubai
(Translated from Spanish) The team of Dominican students who participated in the World Robotics Competition in Dubai won the bronze medal for their performance during the day, which consisted of assembling a robot capable of solving environmental problems that provide opportunities for improvement to the world with climate change...
Young Omanis pledge to protect humpback whales
Muscat: Young people representing Oman at a global event that looks at finding solutions to environmental problems have said that their country is very fortunate to be rewarded with plenty of natural beauty and wildlife in its seas. Taking part at the FIRST Global Challenge in...
Belarusian team wins world robotics and programming competition in Dubai
The Belarusian team won the world competition in robotics and programming. The annual FIRST Global Challenge Championship was held in Dubai. 189 teams participated in it. Our country was represented by 2 high school students and 3 students of BSU and BSUIR. This year environment...
Bahrain eyes robotic development of artificial reef in Arabian Gulf
Bahrain has expressed aspirations to build an underwater artificial reef in the Arabian Gulf using artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics as part of its Ocean Opportunities theme at the Dubai Future Foundation event, the ‘FIRST Global Challenge’, held on 24-27 October at Festival Arena. If approved,...
The National — Teenage Syrian refugees ‘Team Hope’ win at Dubai robotics competition
Five Syrian refugee teenagers have won a competition to build robots able to help clean up pollution in the world’s oceans. 'Team Hope' – Maher El Assawi, Ammar Kabbour, Salam Al Farekh, Youssef Shaaban, Amina Kabbour and supervisor Yamen Alnajjar – led the winning four-team alliance...
Tunisia wins silver medal at Dubai Robotics Olympics
(Translated from French) A team of young Tunisian innovators under the age of 18, won the silver medal in international excellence from 192 participating countries at the 2019 "FIRST Global Challenge" Olympic Games held in Dubai from 24 to 27 October 2019 On the initiative of the...
Dubai Concludes World Robotics And Artificial Intelligence Championship
(Translated from Arabic) The FIRST Global World Robotics and Artificial Intelligence championship, which was held in Dubai from 24 to 27 October, concluded yesterday with the participation of more than 1500 competitors from 191 countries, in the largest event in the world in the field of...
BBC — Ocean Cleaning Robot: Ukrainian Kids Are Some of the Best Robotics in the World
(Translated from Ukrainian) The Ukrainian team became one of the best at the FIRST Global Challenge in Robotics, held in Dubai (UAE) the day before. The national team of Ukraine won 10th place among 189 countries. Ukrainian children have built work that cleans the ocean of plastic. They were...
Rapallo, the mayor meets the students of Robotics: “We are proud”
(Translated from Italian) Rapallo - The mayor of Rapallo Carlo Bagnasco and the president of the Municipal Council Mentore Campodonico met at the Fortunato Liceti Institute the students who successfully participated in the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge in Dubai. In the assembly hall, where the «Hackathons» were taking place, the project marathons between groups...
A Team Of CARICOM Youth Strike Gold At FIRST Global Robotics Competition
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Mon. Oct. 28, 2019: A team of 10 teens, aged 15-18, struck gold in Dubai for their country and the CARICOM region Sunday, making history. The youth from the South American CARICOM nation of Guyana won the Albert Einstein gold medal...
UAE a global platform for knowledge exchange: Al Gergawi
DUBAI, 27th October, 2019 (WAM) -- Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs and the Future and Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai Future Foundation, has said that the UAE is a global platform for knowledge exchange and a...
Team Hope wins FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai
Dubai: Team Hope led the winning four-team alliance to a dramatic victory, in the grand final of the FIRST Global Challenge 2019, in Dubai. The third edition of the annual robotics competition — the first to be hosted outside the Americas — drew the participation of...
Team Japan shares passion for robotics at FIRST Global Challenge
DUBAI, 27th October, 2019 (WAM) -- Following a tumultuous three weeks for their country, in the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis, Team Japan is grateful for the opportunity to dive into their shared passion for robotics and keep their minds occupied during the global robotics and...
In the final, the national Greek robotics team
The team with 8 wins and 1 loss at the moment is 6th in the overall ranking in a total of 188 countries around the world! The Greek National Robotics Team participating in the Dubai Olympics these days and qualifying for the final that will be...
Young Arabs showcase tech talent at FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai
DUBAI, 26th October, 2019 (WAM) -- His passion for programming and robotics, and his dream to develop his skills in Artificial Intelligence, AI, motivated Amjad Hamed to lead the Palestinian team to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai. "Participating in this global tournament...
Saudi Team Took Part, in World Robotics, Artificial Intelligence Championships, FIRST Global, in Dubai
(MENAFN - Saudi Press Agency) Dubai, Oct 26, 2019, SPA -- A Saudi team participated in the World Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Championship "the FIRST Global Challenge", which was organized by the Dubai Future Foundation, during the period from 25 to 27 October 2019, with...
STEM is the new Superbowl: says FIRST Global Challenge’s mastermind
DUBAI, 26th October, 2019 (WAM) -- Masterminded by Dean Kamen, the third FIRST Global Challenge being hosted in Dubai has brought more than 1,500 students from 191 countries together to invent robotics that can tackle marine and ocean-life problems At one time, technologies invented by...
Afghan all-girls team challenge status quo to compete in robotics contest
DUBAI, 26th October, 2019 (WAM) -- The Afghanistan booth at the FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai is packed, with hardly any space to move with the teenaged all-girl Afghan Dreamers team being filmed for a documentary and being trailed everywhere by a camera crew...
India’s all-girl robotics team competes in FIRST Global Challenge
DUBAI, 26th October, 2019 (WAM) -- Members of Geared-Up Girls have been lugging their robot, Shakti (the Sanskrit word for power), around in a suitcase all morning for practice at Festival Arena, frantically adding tweaks to improve the consistency and reliability of the prototype. The all-girl...
Artificial Intelligence part and parcel of UAE schooling: minister
Dubai: Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to solve real-life problems has become part of the UAE education system, the Minister of Education said on the sidelines of the ‘2019 FIRST Global Challenge’ in Dubai on Saturday. Hussain Ebrahim Al Hammadi said students in grades 11 and 12, in...
Jamaican High School Team To Complete In “FIRST Global Olympics” Robotics Tournament in Dubai
Team Jamaica Robotics, which comprises high school students from Jamaica, is set to compete in what has been called the “first global Olympics,” the FIRST GLOBAL Challenge 2019 at the Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai. The tournament runs from October 24 through 27. The team will...
Team USA encourages global community outreach, women involvement in STEM and robotics
DUBAI, 25th October, 2019 (WAM) -- 17-year-old Abigail Herrera and her four other teammates known as Root Negative One, are representing the United States after having won the top honors at the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championships in Houston - known as the Inspire Award....
2019 FIRST Global Challenge gets under way in Dubai
The third edition of a major international robotics competition kicked off at Festival Arena in Dubai on Friday. More than 1,500 contestants from 191 countries are expected to take part in the 2019 FIRST Global Challenge. This year’s theme – "Ocean Opportunities" – focuses on creating robots...
Youth battle it out in Dubai to “clean oceans” with robots
Dubai: The Dubai Festival Arena erupted in cheers on Friday as enthusiastic students from 191 countries battled it out in the FIRST Global Challenge to recover “trash from the seas” using robots. This year’s Challenge, an annual international robotics and artificial intelligence competition being held for...
Video: Sheikh Hamdan opens FIRST Global DXB Challenge
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, said that Dubai continues to cement its position as a global hub for major international events, thanks to its extensive expertise and advanced infrastructure. Dubai's hosting of...
Global robotics challenge kicks off in Dubai
Dubai: Seven-time Grammy Award winning musician and education advocate will.i.am performed live at the opening ceremony of the 2019 FIRST Global DXB Challenge on Thursday. The global gathering of creative young minds in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), kicked off on Thursday at...
Argentine students compete in the Dubai Robotics World Cup
(Translated from Spanish) The winning team of the Robotics Cup, organized by the Ministry of Education and Innovation of the City of Buenos Aires together with Educabot, a provider of educational technology solutions, will travel this week to the city of Dubai to compete in the World...
Empower and Educate Afghanistan’s Youth to Ensure a Peaceful Future
Afghanistan has made great progress over the past two decades toward empowering women, strengthening democracy, improving access to health care and providing education to millions of children. International donors have had a direct impact on the lives of many Afghans, offering us opportunities for economic...
From the Hearts of Thai Youth Representatives for International Robotics Competition
(Translated from Thai) October 14, Bangkok, Thailand — Thailand will be sending its first team of representatives in the global robotics competition, "The 2019 FIRST Global Challenge", themed "Ocean Opportunities", which aims to raise awareness of ocean pollution and encourage collaboration in order to solve these challenges...
Dubai to host 2019 FIRST Global DXB Challenge robotics event
This is the first time this event is being held outside of the Americas. This Global event brings together talented youth with a passion for STEM to address environmental issues Crown Prince of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of The...
Canadian Indigenous youth robotics team to compete in Dubai
Several Alberta students are preparing for an opportunity for a lifetime — this October, the IndigeSTEAM team will head to Dubai to compete on behalf of Canada in an international robotics competition. The FIRST Global event swill be a chance for the team to show off...
Mzia Robot Playing Basketball – Attracts Georgian Students to FIRST Global Competition
(Translated from Georgian) Being well-known robot Game of the international competition of the "FIRST Global" - the robot to travel Mzia preparing. Last year, the team and the robot Vano 186 countries took the third place. This year, "Mzia" will try to improve the result of...
Team Jamaica Robotics to represent at the 2019 FIRST Global Challenge
Washington, DC – A National Team Jamaica Robotics, comprising high school students, coaches and a chaperone, will travel to Dubai, United Arab Emirates to represent the island at the third edition of the 2019 FIRST Global Challenge. The Jamaican robotics team will once again go head-to-head...
High school students introduced the robot, they will go to the International Olympics
(Translated from Slovak) The robot can collect and fire balls. The task is to get it to the so-called reduction station or processing boat. Kosice, October 8 (TASR) - With Alexander, the high school team will go to the third annual International Robotics Olympics FIRST Global Challenge 2019...
El Salvador will participate in the FIRST Global Challenge of robotics
(In Spanish) https://www.facebook.com/fusalmo/videos/584493799045860/...
Dubai to host the first ‘Largest Robotic Olympics’
Ever wonder how robots would do in the Olympics? Dubai is getting ready to host the largest Olympic-style robotics competition in the world, and it’s all for an environmental cause. The 2019 FIRST Global challenge kicks off on Thursday October 24 until Sunday October 27 at...
Morning Sunrise | Meet Sarah Al Mesbah from the FIRST Global Competition
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The Kosovo Representative Team Is Continuing Preparations For The Robotics Race Held In Dubai
(Translated from Albanian) The FIRST Global Challenge is an annual robotics competition that serves to showcase young people's passion for science, technology, engineering and math, which will be held this year in Dubai, October 24-17. Like about 200 countries around the world, thanks to UBT, Kosovo will...
First All-Girls Team Will Represent India In Global Robotics Championship To Stop Pollution
Ever year, the FIRST Global challenge gathers talented students from around the world, tasking them with solving global crises using robotics. Now, the Indian team going to the Robot Olympics will, for the first time, see an all-girl team representing the country. The team this time around...
Bangladeshi teens to participate in int’l robotics event
Since 2017, FIRST Global Challenge has been bringing together young bright minds from all over the world to foster a passion for STEM education A Bangladeshi high school team will be participating in the FIRST Global Challenge, an international robotics event that is held every year...
Puerto Rican youth will compete in robotics competition in Dubai
(Translated from Spanish) Five youth from four schools in Puerto Rico will represent our island at the FIRST Global Challenge Robot Olympics, where they will compete with 200 teams from different countries around the world. The event will take place from October 24 to 27 in Dubai,...
The Moldova national robotics team will participate in the FIRST Global Olympics. Here’s how you can support it
The National Robotics Team of the Republic of Moldova will participate, on October 24-27, 2019, in the third edition of the international robotics Olympiad - FIRST Global Challenge. The competition will be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and will bring together over 175 teams...
Will compete with 175 countries around the world: Support the national robotics team at the global Olympics FIRST Global
(Translated from Moldovan) The National Robotics Team of the Republic of Moldova will participate, on October 24-27, in the third edition of the international robotics Olympiad - FIRST Global Challenge. The competition will be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and will bring together over 175...
Springdale robotics team prepares for competition in Dubai
SPRINGDALE -- Community organizations and individuals have pledged thousands of dollars to help send a Tyson School of Innovation robotics team overseas to an international competition next month. Root Negative One will represent the United States at this year's FIRST Global Challenge in Dubai, United Arab...
SERBIA’S PRIME OLYMPIC TEAM are the best students, but not nerds, and in Dubai they go with ROBOT IN SERBIAN NIGHT
(Translated from Serbian) Five of them, high school students, are going to the competition - the FIRST Global Robotics Olympiad in Dubai. They are the best students in their high schools, not nerds, and they are on social networks, but the world around them is critically and...
International 2019 Honduras Robotics Team
(In Spanish) https://www.facebook.com/intibuca.noticia/videos/123358602393496/...
Team Moldova to the FIRST Global Challenge
(In Moldovan) https://www.facebook.com/TVRMoldova/videos/439308533458768/...
The Spice Gears Team is flying to Dubai
(Translated from Polish) For four years they have represented our province and country around the world, in October they are flying to Dubai for the next championship. The Spice Gears Team talked about their activities in the Marshal's Office. She presented here as part of the...
Young science innovators in Namibia
A team of young scientists is scheduled to participate in the FIRST Global Challenge 2019 taking place on the 21st- 28 October in Dubai. This year’s challenge is themed “Ocean Opportunities”. The aspiring young scientists from Delta High School in Windhoek are Dennis de Abreu, Giovanni...
STEM Guyana receives $1M for FIRST Global Robotic challenge
Minister within the Ministry of Communities, Annette Ferguson yesterday handed over a cheque of $1M to the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Guyana team, which will be representing the country at this year’s ‘FIRST Global Robotic’ competition in Dubai. “This year hopefully, we are looking...
Young people from Limón will represent the country in a world robotics meeting in Dubai
(Translated from Spanish) A group of youth from Limón will represent Costa Rica with the participation of its robotics team in the First Global Challege 2019, which will take place this year in Dubai United Arab Emirates. Joustin Romero, Johary Hunter, Cassidy Recio Brenes, Keissy Nickengs Hamblin...
Robotics unites the country in a contest to represent the country
Translated from Spanish. Students from all provinces will participate in the Robotics Cup to reach the Dubai World Cup. From August 29 to 31, the City of Buenos Aires will host the 2019 Robotics Cup, a contest that will define the team that will travel to the FIRST...
Asseco supports the Polish national team at the Robot Olympics in Dubai
(Translated from Polish) Asseco became the main sponsor of the team at the FIRST Global Challenge robotic Olympiad. The event will take place October 24-27, 2019 in Dubai. The Polish team is the Spice Gears team from Kraśnik. This is another Asseco initiative within the Asseco for the Future...
Local robotic team heading to Dubai
A local robotics team will once again represent South Africa internationally as they gear up for the FIRST Global robotics challenge later this year. The robotics competition will be held in Dubai from 24 to 27 October. The team, made up of high school students from Centurion,...
Angola is participating in the FIRST Global Robotics Championship
(In Portuguese) https://www.facebook.com/informacaotvzimbo/videos/556919305046668/?t=4...
Help students participate in a robotics competition in Dubai
[vc_video link='https://youtu.be/oEWmGD0mXVk'] A group of five MCAST students are appealing for donations in aim of representing Malta in an IT and robotics competition taking place in Dubai. In order to participate, the youth need to raise €10,000. The students, currently studying Software Development and Robotics at MCAST, told Newsbook.com.mt that...
Tech For Good: Kenya robotic team to showcase their project in Dubai
What a Feat! Misiones won the 2019 Robotics Cup and will represent Argentina in the World Cup
Translated from Spanish. A group of students from different high schools in the province came out in the first place with their robot named "Julito", which can perform cleaning tasks in polluted oceans. The team will compete in October in a world tournament in Dubai. A huge...
Nisti hands over robotic kit to Team Seychelles
A group of 10 students who will be representing Seychelles at the 2019 FIRST Global Robotic competition to be held in Dubai from October 24-27 have received a robot kit from the National Institute for Science, Technology and Innovation. This was during a short presentation at the Blue...
Suriname registered for the 2019 FIRST Global Robotics Challenge
Translated from Dutch. This year the Young Help Suriname (YHS) foundation is also planning to allow Suriname to participate in the 2019 FIRST Global 'Robotics' Challenge (FGC) for the third time. The foundation has recently been able to successfully register our country to participate in this competition...
Solomon Islands Students to Participate in 2019 FIRST Global Robotics Challenge in Dubai
Students from Woodford International School have been selected to represent Solomon Islands in the 2019 FIRST Global Robotics Competition in Dubai. The FIRST Global Challenge is a truly international robotics event with more than 175 nations across the world traveling to Dubai to participate. Participating teams are...
The First National Robotics Competition in Benin
Raro robo-kids foot it with the best
Five students will design and build robots to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition with a cause in Dubai. FIRST Global is a non-profit organisation that promotes science and technology education and careers, through Olympics-style robotics competitions. The students will have to design three robots...
USP to host training for “FIRST Global Challenge”
Eight (8) students selected from four secondary schools in Suva were part of the first round of the “FIRST Global Challenge” at The University of the South Pacific’s (USP) Laucala Campuson 16 August 2019. The schools are Suva Grammar School, YatSen Secondary School, Jai Narayan College and MGM...
Tyson Foods Opens Automation Center In Springdale’s Downtown, Sponsors Team
The Tyson Manufacturing Automation Center officially opened in downtown Springdale today as company officials introduced the facility to attendees from across Northwest Arkansas. Tyson Foods, which has made a series of investments into downtown Springdale over the past few years, created the new, state-of-the-art facility to...
Queenstown high school students to represent NZ at robotics world ‘Olympics’
A bunch of talented Queenstown high school students have been selected to represent New Zealand at the "Olympics" of robotics. Wakatipu High School students Tannin Heeley, 14, Monique Rider, 13, Pearce Summerfield, 14, Josh Nyberg, 14 and Minnie Tam, 14, will compete in the FIRST Global Challenge in Dubai, in October. Rider said the team,...
TECHNOLOGY: FIRST Global – Team Angola Tunes Batteries for Participation in 2019 Robotics World Cup
Composed of five students, aged 16 to 18, and two adult mentors, a group leader and coach, and a technical mentor, First Global - Team Angola says it is motivated to do differently at the event beginning next October. Cristóvão Mário Cacombe, one of the project's...
Students to travel to Dubai for robot competition
The Cayman Islands will send 11 students to Dubai to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge robotics event from 24‑27 Oct. The Cayman Islands National Robotics Team, which was formed from the field of competitors at the recent Rover Ruckus competition includes Caylem Hill and Jack McGregor...
NATIONAL ROBOTICS TEAM PREPS FOR DUBAI
Cayman’s 2019 national robotics team is getting ready for the FIRST Global Challenge in Dubai. The students were qualified to be on the national team following their participation in “Rover Ruckus” held in May, as well as, a rigorous selection process. The theme of the FIRST Global Challenge...
5 Nigerian Students For 2019 Global Robotics Olympics
Five Nigerian students drawn from secondary schools across the country have been selected to represent Nigeria at the next FIRST Global Robotics Olympics in Dubai this October. The students; Kosi Ugoji, Isaac Ibidun, Gbemileke Ogunrayewa, Sonia Bendrewere and Toluwaniyin Ojo-Osagie were selected from a try-out session...
From Zambia To Harvard: Meet The ‘Mentee-Turned-Mentor’ Who Inspired Her Country’s First Robotics Team At 22
Harvard; one of the world’s most renowned Ivy League Schools is known to be the breeding ground for some of the world’s brightest minds, and Sela Kasepa – a 21-year-old Zambian student at the time – waltzed her way into the institution with head held...
TAMCC Robotics Club aims to improve Grenada’s ranking in Dubai
TAMCC Robotics Club competed in 2017, placing 109 out of 160 countries In 2018, Team Grenada placed 93 in Mexico In 2019, Team Grenada seeks funding to participate in Dubai For the last two years, the students representing the TA Marryshow Community College Robotics Club...
The New York Times – In Afghanistan, We Laugh Differently
HERAT, Afghanistan — A 2017 wall calendar dangled from a nail over Kawsar Roshan’s bed on the otherwise blank wall of her room. “Best year for me” she had written, in curly script, above aerial photos of lakes and waterfalls. She drew a smiley-face next...
Is it Impossible: uniting the world’s youth across borders?
Impossible Robotics – the Dutch student/inventors who compete in the FIRST Global international robotics Challenge – have learned that Science can solve humanity’s problems when the world’s youth work together. That ethos lies at the heart of the FIRST organisation which is a not-for-profit charity fostering a global...
10 inspiring Muslim women in STEM you need to know about
This Women’s History Month, we’re elevating and celebrating the women who broke barriers and showed the world what they’re made of. Whilst research has long supported the truth that fewer women pursue careers in STEM than men, this norm is changing slowly but surely. According to...
Dubai Will Host the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge This Year
His Excellency Mohammed Al Gergawi, UAE Minister of Cabinet Affairs and the Future, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Managing Director of Dubai Future Foundation, announced that Dubai will host the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge in October 2019. It marks the first time that...
‘Olympics’ of robot-building comes to Dubai
An international Olympics style robot-making competition is coming to Dubai this year. Schoolchildren from across the globe will be challenged to design robots that can help solve pressing global issues such was water security and energy efficiency. More than 2,000 pupils from 193 countries are set to...
Dubai to Host FIRST Global Challenge this Year
Dubai - MENA Herald: His Excellency Mohammed Al Gergawi, UAE Minister of Cabinet Affairs and the Future, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Managing Director of Dubai Future Foundation, today announced that Dubai will host the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge in October 2019. It...
New program aims to promote robotics
Glenda McTaggart would like to see Cayman students take over the world of robotics, or at least play a part in the burgeoning technical field. But, she said, it will require change. “So far, robotics are not part of the school curriculum,” said Ms. McTaggart, education...
Romanians who add value to the national brand: Romania’s olympiad winners in 2018
Romanian children have always performed well at international olympiads, and this year was no different. Romania had great results at the 2018 International Geography Olympiad, held in Canada, the International Math Olympiad in Cluj-Napoca as well as two robotics competitions, in Thailand and Mexico. FIRST Global...
Young robotics scientists who excelled in competitions were awarded by President Pavlopoulos
Translated from Greek. The President of the Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, today awarded the robotics teams that were distinguished in competitions during an event organized by the eduACT non-profit association eduACT at the XANTH building in Thessaloniki. Mr. Pavlopoulos was guided at eduACT's premises and spoke with volunteers...
CNN: How I became captain of the winning all-girls Afghan robotics team
[See original post for video] I love asking questions. As a child, I questioned just about everything. Why was my country different than the ones I saw on television shows and in movies? Why was my gender an obstacle to me becoming a leader someday? Why...
The rebellion of female adolescents in robotics
Translated from Spanish. Today more than ever there are adolescent women who are participating in educational robotics. They occupy a leadership position and excel in international competitions, they are mentors and they open opportunities for the generations to come. Here, four of them tell how robotics...
Shell Operations Peru highlights status of Peruvian team in global robotic tournament in Mexico
Translated from Spanish. Teams of students from more than 190 countries, including Peru, spent three days competing - but also collaborating - in the robotics tournament " FIRST Global Challenge ", held in Mexico City. This year the theme of the competition was "Energy Impact" and the robot teams participated...
UK STEM students help program third place in Robotics “Olympics”
It’s always nice to read of positive technology initiatives in the UK for the young – so check out UK students finishing in third place at the ‘Robotics Olympics’ in Mexico last month. Specifically, an alliance of three nations featuring the UK team came third for...
Robotic team from South Africa wins Gold
Durban - Team South Africa has broken a record at the FIRST Global robotics challenge in Mexico. One of the Springbot members and team captain, Mikhaeel Reddy said. “We won the Walt Disney award and received gold for our creativity, imagination and innovation. "We are still reeling from...
Young roboticists compete in international event
Spending their summer building robots and competing internationally, Guam's public school students achieve milestones in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), becoming the first high school robotics team to represent Guam on the global stage. It's not your typical summer travel, these kids packed a robot....
GDOE high school students successfully compete in global robotics competition
Guam – A team of high school students from various schools just returned from successfully competing in a robotics competition in Mexico City, Mexico. Last week they were honored during a ceremony at the GDOE headquarters. Led by GDOE Career Pathyway Lead Dr. Leah Beth Naholowaa, the...
SENA youth win silver medal in the world’s most important robotics competition
Translated from Spanish. Omar García Falla, Natalia Charry Vargas and Bryant Hernández Perdomo designed and built a robot to generate clean energy and combat climate change. Their prototype represented Colombia in the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge competition and took second place. When Omar García Falla, Natalia Charry Vargas...
CONECTA — The 7 moments the FIRST Global robotics olympiad left us with
Translated from Spanish. The FIRST Global Challenge international robotics olympiad ended with emotional moments that left many lessons and unique experiences among participants from more than 160 countries. This event was held at the Mexico City Arena from August 16 to 18, in which the Mexican team, composed entirely of students from the...
Plucky students clinch robotics gold in Mexico
PUNE: While most of the country is focused on the exploits of its athletes at the Asiad in Indonesia, a group of intrepid students from the city pocketed gold at another international event. The event — a robotics competition in Mexico — saw the five students...
Young natives of Intibuca among the winners in the robotic Olympics 2018 FIRST Global Challenge
Translated from Spanish. Honduras among the winners in the robotic Olympics 2018 FIRST Global Challenge The team that represented Honduras in this important competition won the silver medal in the Zhang Heng prize in the Engineering Design category. This is an award given to those teams whose design...
TEENAGE TRIO PUTS TECHNOLOGY TO WORK AT GLOBAL ROBOTICS COMPETITION
[VIDEO] Adrian Phillips-Hernaez, Ethan Cronier and Joe Allom-Perez recently finished 23rd in overall points out of 161 teams at the FIRST Global International Robotics Challenge. Mr. Cronier and Mr. Allom-Perez on Tuesday (28 August) joined Cayman 27’s Kevin Morales live on set to talk about the competition...
STEM Students Lead Team UK to Third Place in ‘Robotics Olympics’
A team of UK students has been hailed for 'exceeding expectations' after finishing third in the FIRST Global Challenge in Mexico - a STEM-inspired international robotics competition. The impressive talents of the team - six high school students selected by FIRST Tech Challenge UK & Ireland...
Team Nepal will be participating in the Robot Olympics
Translated from Nepalese. The Nepali team has been competing in the International Robot Olympics 'FIRST Global Challenge' organized in Mexico. In the competition, Shishir Vishwakarma, Earth Chowdhary, Swachin Shrestha and meaningful Sen, are participating in the competition. Timothy Singh, secretary of the Robotics Association of Nepal,...
County students represent USA in global robotics competition
Montgomery County students powered a robot, G-Wiz, to win all eight of its matches during a four-day competition in Mexico City earlier this month. The FIRST Global Challenge was held Aug. 15-18 in Mexico City. The Wizards.exe team, based in Rockville, was chosen to represent the United...
All-Girls Robotics Team Returns From Mexico
The all-girl Afghan robotics team returned home on Sunday after wrapping up a successful tour of Mexico. The robots created by the girls won a major award at FIRST Global Challenge 2018 robot competition between high school students from around the world. “We won the safety award...
Maryland County students represent USA in global robotics competition
Montgomery County students powered a robot, G-Wiz, to win all eight of its matches during a four-day competition in Mexico City earlier this month. The FIRST Global Challenge was held Aug. 15-18 in Mexico City. The Wizards.exe team, based in Rockville, was chosen to represent the United...
Team Belize on the “Open Your Eyes” show
https://www.facebook.com/OpenYourEyesBz/videos/252778375371605/?t=6524 (Starts at 1:48:44)...
A learning experience for Oman students at Mexico robotics competition
Muscat: In the heart of Mexico City, student teams from more than 175 countries – including Oman – spent three days competing and collaborating at the international robotics competition, “FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Global Challenge”. This year’s theme was “Energy Impact,”...
Honduras places second in the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge in Mexico
Translated from Spanish. Honduras represented by Adriana, William, Erick and Maudy This group of young catrachos, students from schools of the departments of Intibucá and Colón, who have represented Honduras with dignity, obtained the award for the Second Best Robot of this competition, carrying with them the silver medal in this category " Design...
Mauritania participates in the International Robotics Championship #FIRSTGlobal
Translated from Arabic. Mauritania participated in the International Robotics Championship organized by FIRST Global, with 190 countries participating. The Mauritanian team consists of two young men and a girl who participated through the Mauritanian business incubator HADINA RIMTIC. Team members are: Soumeya Hamady (13 years old) from the school...
Slovak robot wins a jury award at the robot “Olympics”
Aurel, a robot designed by five Slovak secondary school students, is not leaving this year’s robot Olympics with empty hands. It was granted the Judges Award – Technical, for the recognition of the merits of a team’s unique efforts, performance or dynamics. Slovakia’s representatives at the...
World Robotics Challenge: We Can be Optimistic About the Future
Once again, Mexico hosted a world-class international event: the World Robotics Championship, the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge, which was held for the first time outside the United States. During the course of three days, more than a thousand young people from more than 180 countries, as...
Observer: An abundance of brilliance
We would like to invite you to stand up and join us in applauding a small group of smart, enthusiastic youth, who recently visited Mexico City, Mexico, to proudly represent Antigua and Barbuda and participate in the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge. The members of Team...
Sfax: Young Inventors Crown The World Number One At The Robotic “Olympic” Games
Translated from Arabic. A team of young inventors from the First Skills Club of Sfax participated in the Olympic Games of Robotics in Mexico from 16 to 18 of August 2018. The team includes 4 girls and a boy aged between 15 and 18 years old. They...
Special performance brought by six golden boys: Romania, world champion in robotics
Translated from Romanian. Among the six youngsters who represented Romania at the Olympics in Mexico, Darius Lorinczi was the "brain" of the robot. Along with another colleague he handled the robot to meet all the requirements. "I honestly do not realize that we have won so many things,...
High School robot pilot reflects on Guam success in int’l competition
Five Guam high school students recently returned from an international Olympics-style robotics competition in Mexico City, where they ranked 53 out of 168 country teams and won four out of eight games against worldwide competitors. “We are a really young team compared to a lot of the other...
Team Chile returns from the robotics “World Cup” the FIRST Global Competition
Translated from Spanish. Team Chile is the team that represented us from August 15 to 18 at Robotics "World Cup", the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge, in Mexico City. This event brings together young people from more than 160 countries to solve energy efficiency problems with robots created...
Moco’s ‘Team USA’ takes accolades in robotics competition and learns a little
Representing the United States, the eight-member team of high-school robotics experts who call themselves Wizards.exe, left the FIRST Global Challenge 2018 robotics competition in Mexico on Sunday, with three large medals and a new appreciation for people who live in countries they previously knew little...
Belizean students return from Robotics Competition in Mexico City
Those NEMO radios could be child’s play for a group of students who has just returned from Mexico City. Students from the Belize High School represented Belize at this year’s FIRST Global Challenge 2018. The aim of the competition was to demonstrate how science and...
The team from the Armmatts returned from the FIRST Global Robot Competition
Translated from Armenian. The regional team of Armmat Engineering Laboratory Network, which recently took part in the FIRST Global Robotics Competition in Mexico, was included in the top 48 countries (ranked 15th) according to the 180 participating countries and passed to the final stage. According to...
Good month for Zimbabwe education
In North America, the Zimbabwean flag also flew high. A team of five high school students, namely Bennedictus Chingiodza (St George’s), Tamuda Chimhanda (St Ignatius), Danai Hakata (Tynwald High School), Gabriel Matemba (Harare High) and Letticia Vanganayi (Harare High) went to the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge...
DIMONA TEENAGERS WIN 4TH PLACE OVERALL FOR ISRAEL IN ROBOTIC OLYMPICS
A team of high school students from the city of Dimona in the Negev Desert won fourth place while representing Israel in an international robotics competition last week in Mexico City. The team from Dimona’s Lehman High School, which calls itself ‘Black Magic 11901,’ sent twelve participants...
Maldives scores second place at Global Robotics competition
Maldivian students won second place along with Iceland and Colombia at the FIRST Global ‘Robotics Olympics International competition held in Mexico. A total of 190 countries took part in this competition aimed at youngsters between 14 to 18 years. Competing from the Maldives were 15-year-old Yameen Yooshaau of...
Another set of Nigerian students win big at world robotics contest in Mexico
Three weeks after a group of young Nigerians won a robotics contest in China, another group of Nigerian students have reportedly won two bronze medals at the 2018 FIRST Global Robotics Olympiad (GRO) in Mexico. The Nigerian team according to NAN won the medals in the...
Pres Boys To Begin Robotics Association
https://youtu.be/9qgEypYXg8E A worldwide challenge with a difference. That was the FIRST Global Challenge which took place in Mexico and was attended by Presentation College students, Avidesh Marajh and Raydon Baboolal. Teams had to design a robot to complete engineering tasks to achieve energy efficiency. The boys say the...
Bhutanese robot ‘Druk-Bot’ ranked 17th out of 161
Druk-Bot, the robot representing Bhutan, lost in the quarter-finals in the FIRST Global Robotics competition in Mexico held last week. The Druk-Bot was ranked 17th out of 161 participating countries. The robot, which resembles a dragon, was developed by three youth at the FabLab Bhutan. FabLab Bhutan...
Maldives team places second at ‘robotic Olympics’
Maldivian students have won second spot in an international robotics competition in Mexico. The trio competed against teams from 175 countries in the FIRST Global Challenge. The Maldives’ robot was made by teenagers Yameen Ushau from Majeedhiyya School, Ridha Anees of Jamaaludhin School and Hassan Nasih from...
VN students shine at robotics competition
MEXICO CITY — A group of four Vietnamese students brought home a bronze medal for their impressive robotic design at the “2018 FIRST Global Challenge” international robotics competition in Mexico last week. Besides the medal, the Vietnamese team was ranked 12th out of 165 teams joining in...
Robotics team awarded silver medal for excellence at international event
Mexico’s robotics team placed 12th overall at the second edition of the FIRST Global Challenge international competition but didn’t go home empty-handed, claiming the silver medal in one of the event’s most prestigious categories. In recognition of its performance throughout the three-day event held in Mexico City...
Mexican students take silver in FIRST Global Robotics Olympiad challenge
Mexico City, Mexico — Mexico takes home a silver medal in the Robotics Olympiad after their team showed high performance in the first Global Challenge. The team, which is made up of Frida Sofía Sosa, Santiago García, Ángel Berdeja, Herman Sánchez and Jorge García, all Tec...
Students have designs for world of technological innovation
(MENAFN - Asia Times) Four Vietnamese with a passion for robotics engineered a bronze medal at the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge in Mexico City, with their team winning seven of the eight games in the qualifying round. Drawn from students at the private FPT High School, the team ranked 12th...
Georgia Ranks 3rd in Int’l Robotics Competition Among 193 Countries
The robotics team of Georgia successfully achieved third place among 193 countries in the International Competition “FIRST Global Challenge” held in Mexico, according to Imedinews. "The real demonstration of non-radar and talent in Mexico, despite the difficulties of strength, intimacy, positive mindset, enthusiasm, and competitiveness," states...
Angolan team participates in World Robotics Championship
Arotech, an initiative of Angolan students that encourages interest in new technologies, was selected to participate in the international robotics Olympiads (FIRST Global) happening in Mexico City on 16 - 18 in August of 2018. This event gives student delegates a first-hand experience with involvement with...
World’s brightest young minds come together for Robotics Olympics
From Australia to Vietnam, over 150 teams featuring the brightest young minds gathered in Mexico City on Friday (August 17) for the FIRST Global robotics Olympics. This international competition aims to ignite youth passion for science, technology, engineering and mathematics in the field of robotics. International teams...
Mexico Faces Challenges Of The Future In Robotics World Cup
Competition ran high on the final day of this year's quarter-finals Robotics World Cup, which drew 700 international contestants to Mexico City Arena for the three-day challenge. The 'FIRST Global Challenge 2018' featured the next generation of young engineers and robotics technicians from 193 countries. Aged 14 to 18,...
Team Guam competes in robotics in Mexico City
Team Guam, made up of students from Okkodo High School and Simon Sanchez High School, is in Mexico City to compete in the FIRST Global International Competition. Team Guam won its first match Friday morning at the competition in Mexico City. The theme for the 2018...
Vietnam attends world robot contest in Mexico
Addressing the opening ceremony, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto stressed that the students’ talent, creativity and renovation spirit will contribute to the social development and put forth solutions to current global issues. The contest, themed “Energy Impact”, draws the participation of 165 teams across the world. Three...
Belize represented at FIRST Global Robotics Olympics in Mexico
Belize is proudly being represented at the FIRST Global Robotics Olympics in Mexico. Students from Belize High School, Belize City, and Ocean Academy of Caye Caulker are participating in the competition. The event started on August 15 and ends tomorrow, August 18, 2018. Students from 193 countries are participating. The theme...
Young Uzbeks will participate in the World Robotics Competition
Translated from Uzbek. The representatives of Uzbekistan are among the young robotics technicians from 180 countries around the world at the FIRST Global Challenge competition held in Mexico City, Mexico, on August 16-18. This event is held annually in various countries, with young people from all over...
Sobreciencia In Contact With The Soriano High School Students That Are Participating In The “FIRST Global Challenge”, In Mexico
Translated from Spanish. Until tomorrow the "FIRST Global Challenge Robotics Olympiad" takes place in Mexico, in which young people from 175 countries participate. Yaco Chumillo and Santiago Camesasca, including students of the Liceo No. 1 of Mercedes, and Ignacio García, Belén Camesasca and Sahiara Mar, students of...
Myanmar Times — Tech it or leave it
As technology takes an increasing role in daily life, countries are competing to be at the forefront of the industry. Lucky for Myanmar, a team of five talented university students are representing the nation in the FIRST Global Robotics Olympics held in Mexico from August 15...
From the Maldives to Mexico: students compete in international robotic Olympics
Three Maldivian students have travelled to Mexico to take part in a global robotics competition. Their creation, Rani Kanbaa (queen lady), is remote-controlled and can carry and transport objects. It was built in two months with equipment provided by tournament organisers FIRST Global. The robot was made...
Team Chile in the Robotics World Championship in Mexico
(Translated from Spanish.) Team Chile, supported by the "Ingenious: science and technology for all" program and the Fab Lab of the Catholic University is representing the country. On Monday 13, four youth and a mentor traveled to Mexico City to represent the country in the world's largest...
Chubb sponsors two teams at the Robotics “Olympics” FIRST Global Challenge in Mexico
(Translated from Spanish.) Chubb announced today that it is sponsoring two teams in the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge, the annual Robotics "Olympics" on an international level. The teams supported by Chubb, from Argentina and Ecuador, join representatives from more than 150 countries, which compete this year in Mexico...
Polytechnic students attend FIRST Global robotic competition in Mexico
Three first-year students from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Malawi—The Polytechnic are attending this year’s FIRST Global robotics competition, which is being held in Mexico City, Mexico. The students—Gerard Magaleta, Tamanda Champiti, and Patience Muhunya—arrived in Mexico City on Tuesday, August 14, 2018,...
Conroe ISD robotics team helps beleaguered Afghan squad
Members of the Conroe Independent School District “Texas Torque” team showed their team spirit and sense of camaraderie this week, stepping in to save the day for another robotics team competing on the world stage. The “Texas Torque” robotics team was already planning to send four...
Mcast students represent Malta at robotics challenge in Mexico City
Three students attending the Malta College for the Arts, Science and Technology (Mcast) are in Mexico City representing the country for the second edition of the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge this week. The students are Aaron Josef Farrugia, Monique Micallef and Darren Farrugia. They are following an...
Secretary Perry to Travel to Mexico City for FIRST Global Challenge
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Tomorrow, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry will travel to Mexico City to attend the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge. During his visit, the Secretary will also meet with both current and incoming Mexican government officials to discuss the continuity of strong bilateral...
Jamaican High Schoolers Travel to Mexico to Compete in 2018 Robotics “Olympics”
A team composed of Jamaican students from four island high schools will compete in the FIRST Global Challenge, an event described as a “robotics Olympics,” to be held in Mexico City. The students from Calabar, Immaculate, Jamaica College, and Kingston College will join with teams...
Lae students take on the world
TWO girls will represent Papua New Guinea in in Mexico City in an international robot Olympics for high schoolers. The pair from Lae Secondary School in Morobe will compete in the Olympics For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Global Challenge from Wednesday to...
Team Nepal Ready for International Robot Olympics
Team Nepal is finally ready with all the preparations for Robot Olympics- FIRST Global Challenge. Robotics Association of Nepal in association with Nepal Engineer’s Association proudly presents Team Nepal. The FIRST Global robot Olympics is an annual culmination of focused STEM/robotic involvement of exponentially increasing student...
International Robotic Competition for Cabo Verde
Team Bangladesh in global robotics competition
A team of five Bangladeshi students will participate in an international robotics competition titled the “FIRST Global Challenge” to be held in Mexico City this month. The participants are Arman Khasru and Laleh-naz Bergman Hossain from Sunbeams School; Razeen Ali and Anahita Anoara from Sir John...
Young Saint Lucians to participate in Robotics Olympics!
I could hardly wait to join Tuesday’s gathering at the department of Education. Three teenage students were scheduled to test-run the robot they had built to compete in the annual FIRST Global Robotics Olympics—a competition for high school-aged participants who work together to solve global...
Bangladesh to compete in int’l robotic challenge in Mexico Aug 15-18
A five-member team of adolescent girls and boys will take part in the international robotics competition titled ‘FIRST Global Challenge’ to be held in Mexico City, capital of Mexico from August 15 to 18. The team will leave here on Sunday to join the event where...
Robotic Olympiad: Nigeria representatives promise to win gold
Five Nigerian students, representing the country at the FIRST Global Robotic Olympiad, on Saturday boasted they were coming home with three gold medals at the competition. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the competition is scheduled to hold in Mexico from August 13th to August...
Team Sri Lanka travels to Mexico for FIRST Global Challenge 2018
Over 150 teams from across the globe will gather at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico, from August 16 - 18 for the FIRST Global Challenge (FGC) 2018. FGC is an annual international robotics competition, which takes place in a different nation each year. Themed...
SENA apprentices will represent Colombia in Robotics World
Translated from Spanish. Omar García Falla, 19 years old, Natalia Charry Vargas, 16, and Bryant Hernández Perdomo, 15, are the three SENA Huila apprentices who will represent Colombia at the FIRST Global Challenge robotics olympiad. "The efforts are rewarded and this invitation, which includes a scholarship for...
Team SKN To Showcase Expertise At Robotics Olympics In Mexico
St Kitts and Nevis (WINN): Five students from the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College have once again been invited to participate in the FIRST Global Robotics Olympics in Mexico City from August 15 - 18, 2018. The Information and Technology Department students selected to represent the federation...
Albania at Robotics Olympics, passionate students build robot “Kastrioti 1” (Video)
(Translated from Albanian.) From August 15 to August 18 in Mexico will host the "Olympics of Robotics", with 160 participants, including Albania. Our country is represented by a group of passionate students who have built the robot "Kastrioti 1". Students, invited to the News 24 news studio, have...
Andorran students will have their robot face-off with 175 nations in a world competition
Translated from Catalan. A group of students from the Andorran School will participate in the second edition of the FIRST Global Challenge. The robot competition will bring together teams of 175 nations in Mexico, from 16 to 18 August. Despite being the first time they will participate, they...
Navajo robotics team heads to international competition
SALT LAKE CITY — A team of Navajo high school students from a remote town in southern Utah is building a robot to represent North America in an international robotics competition. The teenagers have worked all summer on the project, scheduling meetings between long drives to...
Tata Technologies to sponsor the Indian team at the FIRST Global Challenge
Tata Technologies, a global engineering services company, is sponsoring the Indian team at the FIRST Global Challenge (FGC) 2018 where students from 180+ nations will come together to participate in an international robotics Olympics. The event is focused on promoting the next generation of Science,...
Team Saint Lucia to participate in Robot Olympics
Saint Lucia will be participating in the annual FIRST Global Challenge – Robot Olympics under the theme “Energy Impact”. During the competition or challenge, shifting alliances of three nations will compete to fuel power plants, initiate renewable energy plants and build a resilient transmission network using...
Young people from Soriano travel to Mexico to an international robotics competition
(Translated from Spanish.) They put together a robot that managed to overcome all the challenges in the previous tests. A group of young people from the liceo 1 of Mercedes and the technical school Pedro Blanes Viale of that city decided to follow the computer professors Liliana...
Sfax: A group of young people are participating in the Olympic Games of Robotics in Mexico
Translated from Arabic. A team of young inventors from the First Skills Club of Sfax will participate in the Robotic Olympic Games to be held in Mexico from 16 to 18 August. Faten Khalafallah Hammouda, the president of the association, told Al-Shorouq Online that the team...
Kab’Oyeri: a Gabonese NGO at the Olympic Robotics Games in Mexico City
Translated from French. As part of the FIRST Global Challenge, the Olympic games of robotics that will take place from 16 August in Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, Gabon will be represented by the non-governmental organization Kab'oyeri, which operates in the digital field. Since 2017, the FIRST...
Robotic Global Olympics for high schoolers
From Aug. 15-18, 2018 some high students from around the globe representing more than 100 countries will be competing against their peers at the First Global Challenge. The theme of the Robotics Olympics is “Energy” and the Olympics will have these students engaged in various...
Cayman Robotics Team Heads Off To Compete In FIRST Global Challenge
The Cayman Islands robotics team heads off to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge, an Olympics-styled robotics contest. But for the boys participating in it, it’s more than a contest, it’s taking what they’ve learned in the classroom and bringing it to life. Those three...
Cabo Verde participates in the second edition of the International Robotics competition “FIRST Global”
(Translated from Portuguese.) City of Praia, 09 Aug (Inforpress) - The Industrial and Commercial School of Mindelo, São Vicente, will represent Cape Verde, from August 16 to 18, in Mexico City, Mexico, in the second edition of the International Robotics competition, called the "Firts Global Challenge"...
The New York Times — Navajo robotics team heads to international competition
SALT LAKE CITY — A team of Navajo high school students from a remote town in southern Utah is building a robot to represent North America in an international robotics competition. The teenagers have worked all summer on the project, scheduling meetings between long drives to...
Navajo robotics team heads to international competition
SALT LAKE CITY - A team of Navajo high school students from a remote town in southern Utah is building a robot to represent North America in an international robotics competition. The teenagers have worked all summer on the project, scheduling meetings between long drives to jobs...
Next week: Sfax Youth Participate in the Olympic Robotic Games in Mexico
Translated from Arabic. A team of young inventors from the First Skills Club of Sfax-Al Rahal will be on their way Saturday (August 11th, 2018) to Mexico to participate in the Olympic Games of robotics, the association's president Faten Khalafallah Hamouda said. The team includes four girls...
“Belize Wall-E” Robot Coming Along Nicely
Time is winding down for Team Belize who is participating in what is called the “Olympics” of Robotics competition taking place between August 16 and 18 at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City. The group comprises students from Ocean Academy in Caye Caulker and Belize High School in Belize...
Cayman Compass — Students get ready to release the kraken in robot games
The kraken is a mythical monster capable of devouring whales and whole ships. The Kraken built by a team of Cayman Islands science students is somewhat less dangerous. Slightly smaller than a folding chair, the robotic vehicle, designed to pick up and transport small cardboard cubes,...
Navajo Mountain High School to Represent North America At Robotics Challenge
Rainbow City– In a beautiful and isolated desert in the southwestern tip of San Juan County, Utah, a FIRST Robotics team from Navajo Mountain High School is building a robot and practice field in preparation to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge. Team Naatsis’aan (#6546)...
How Robots Are Helping Cameroon’s Women Get Into Work
With a flash of green light, a robot sputters and whizzes across the room, obeying the remote-control commands 15-year-old Xaviera Nguefo and her team send its way. It is a scene that would not look out of place in a futuristic sci-fi fantasy, but is instead...
Armath pupils will represent Armenia at the FIRST Global Robot Competition
(Translated from Armenian.) The students of "Armath" engineering laboratories will represent Armenia at the FIRST Global robotics Challenge in Mexico on August 16-18. The FIRST Global Challenge is a global robot challenge, involving 14 to 18 year olds from around 160 countries. The aim of the competition is...
TV Azteca — FIRST Global seeks to develop passion for science in millions of young people in the world
(Translated from Spanish.) Mexico City, July 24, 2018 - FIRST Global, an international non-profit organization focused on the promotion of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, announced today that it seeks to develop a passion for these disciplines. in more than two billion young people around the...
“Armath” students to represent Armenia at FIRST Global Robotics Competition in Mexico
Translated from Armenian. The students of “Armath” Engineering laboratories are set to represent Armenia at the FIRST Global International Robotics competition to be held on August 16-18 in Mexico City. As Mr. Karen Vardanyan, the Executive director of the Union of Information Technology Enterprises (UITE) informed...
11 Students to Represent Nigeria in World Robotics Competition
Three among 11 Nigerian secondary school students have qualified to participate in this year’s World Adolescent Robotics competition, which holds this month in China. The China Association of Science and Technology has reached out to the three students who will be representing Nigeria at the competition. The...
SMART Sistas championing Gender Equality in ICT
The Department of Women's Affairs (DWA) has sponsored the SMART Sistas Program with an amount of Vt50,000. The Director of DWA, Mrs Dorosday Kenneth Dhressen acknowledged the SMART Sistas for giving the department the opportunity to be able to give towards the SMART Sistas program. "As partners...
Belize To Have Its Own “Wall-E” Version Robot
Belize for the first time will be participating in a global robotics competition that takes place betweenAugust 15 and 18 at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City. The focus of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) event this year is “Energy Impact” and is considered the “Olympics”...
Young Mexicans will participate again in the Robotics World Cup
(Translated from Spanish.) Mexico -- The talent and ingenuity of the young Mexicans will once again meet to participate in the Robotics World Cup "FIRST Global Challenge 2018", which in its second edition will take place at the Mexico City Arena. And for this, as in the previous event,...
TT students for robot olympics
THREE form six students of Presentation College Chaguanas will be representing TT at the FIRST Global Challenge in Mexico City, Mexico from August 16-18. The team-based international robotics competition will see the three students, Avidesh Marajh, Raydon Baboolal and Josef Gonzalez, flying TT’s national colours amongst...
Three Nigerian students to participate in World Adolescent Robotics
Three secondary school students are to represent Nigeria at the World Adolescent Robotic Competition in China this July. The students – Tawakalitu Giwa, Oluwaseun Omotayo and Ayomide Adetunji are to fly Nigeria’s flag at the event organised by the China Association of Science and Technology. The students...
All-Girls Robotics Team to Partake in ‘FIRST Global Robotics Competition’
Ghana’s All-Girls Robotics team with support from STEMbees will be participating in the First Global Robotics Competition to be held in Mexico. The competion will take off in August, with Ghana joining over 150 nations in the challenge entitled “Energy Impact”. As part of the competition, each...
Trinidad & Tobago Robotics Team Set for Competition in Mexico
(Go to site for video) A small group of students at Presentation College Chaguanas will once again represent this country in a global robotics competition. Last year the group placed 16th out of 163 countries worldwide, in FIRST Global's first annual robotics Olympics in Washington. Reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh...
Pres Students To Compete At International Robotics Competition
Three Form Six students of Presentation College-Chaguanas will represent Trinidad and Tobago at the FIRST Global Challenge in Mexico City, Mexico from August 16th to 18th. --> Full Story ...
Cocktail fundraiser held in support of Ghana’s all Girls Robotics Team
The cocktail fundraiser in support of Ghana’s all-girls robotics team’s upcoming trip to Mexico City to participate in the FIRST Global international robotics competition was held on Monday, 9th July at the Carbon Luxury Lounge. The event was held in an effort to help the team...
Cayman team preps for ‘robotic Olympics’
A team of students from Cayman will travel to Mexico City next month to take part in what is billed as the “robotic Olympics.” This is the first time a Cayman team will attend the annual FIRST Global Challenge. The team includes Cayman Prep and High School...
VeneBot Robotics Team will represent Venezuela in the FIRST Global Challenge Robotics World Championship, to be held in Mexico
Translated from Spanish. The theme of the competition this year has to do with the "Energy Impact" and the teams must build a robot that fulfills different functions that simulate the operation of solar and power plants that, by making chain reactions, give energy access to...
They will represent Mexico in the Robotics World Cup
(Translated from Spanish.) We present to you the promising young people who will represent the country in the FIRST Global Challenge 2018. FIRST Global is an international organization that is focused on promoting science, technology and collaboration to improve the environment. For this reason, the FIRST Global Challenge is held annually, a robotics competition in...
These high school students deserve attention. Slovakia will be represented in Mexico
(Translated from Slovak.) Do you still remember what you did with your free time when you were 15 years old? Or what are you doing now? Was it wandering out with my friends? Books? Series? Music? Well, high school students from Žiar nad Hronom, Bratislava and Liptovský Mikuláš, who will represent Slovakia...
Mexico Will Host The FIRST Global Challenge 2018
CITY OF MEXICO (Notimex) - From August 15 to 18, the FIRST Global Challenge 2018 will be held in Mexico City, an event that will bring together young people from more than 160 countries to "solve energy efficiency problems with robots created by them," Grupo Salinas...
Youth Of Sfax To Participate In The Olympic Games Of Robotics In Mexico The Coming August
Translated from Arabic. A team of young inventors from the Association of the First Skills Club of Sfax will participate in the Olympic Games for Robotics, to be held in the coming month of August in Mexico, said the president of the association Faten Khalafallah Hamouda....
The 2018 FIRST Global Challenge is coming to Mexico City!
GS Hoy FIRST Global Challenge 2018, the most important robotics competition in the world, will gather this year at the Mexico City Arena of the capital of our country teams from more than 190 countries, between August 16 and 18, with the challenge to solve energy...
ADN Opinion – 2018 FIRST Global Challenge
Mexico City World Robotics ‘Global Challenge’ Ready
The young Mexicans Angel Berdeja, Jorge Garcia, Herman Sanchez, Santiago García and Frida Sosa were reported ready to participate in the Energy Impact competition at the FIRST Global Challenge 2018 Robotics World Championship, which will be held in CdMx. Around 1,300 young people between 14 and...
Local Media and Corporate Bodies Support Ghana’s All Girls Robotics Team Trip To Mexico
Ghana's all-girls Robotics team is receiving local support from media and corporate bodies as they prepare to participate in the FIRST Global Robotics Competition in Mexico City from August 15 to 18. Many of the corporate supporters will be in attendance at the cocktail fundraiser...
Kids from Sucre will represent Bolivia in robotic world cup
(Translated from Spanish.) A sucrense team made up of three schoolboys and their tutor was the winner of the 1st National Robotics Tournament that took place today, in Sucre, whose main prize is attending the World Robotics World Championship -- the FIRST Global Challenge, on behalf...
Francois Lovensky, product of the Haitian “Geek” generation
Translated from French. Young François Lovensky Carl Junior made a name for himself at the first edition of the FIRST Global Challenge. An international competition, initiated in 2017, aimed at young STEM enthusiasts, geeks from all over the world, during which he and his fellow high...
The Mexican Robotics Team is Declared Ready to Participate In the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge, Mexico City
—Five Mexican youths will compete and make alliances with teams from other countries to build robots that solve energy efficiency problems— —Ricardo Salinas, host of the event, supports scientific and technological knowledge to promote wellbeing and progress— MEXICO CITY, June 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FIRST Global,...
Robotics: Three Mauritian teenagers to compete in Mexico
(Translated from French.) Robotics is a sector of the future, according to FIRST Global and YUVA Mauritius. Three Mauritian teenagers have been selected to compete in an international robotics competition in Mexico City, Mexico next August. Three Mauritian teenagers keen on robotics will fly to Mexico City,...
SURINAME FOR THE SECOND TIME ON THE FIRST GLOBAL CHALLENGE
Translated from Dutch. Suriname will again participate in the FIRST Global Challenge this year, which will be held from 15 to 18 August 2018 in Mexico City, Mexico. The goal of this competition, which is organized every year in another country, is to get more young people...
Youth from Limón will represent Costa Rica in robotics contest
Translated from Spanish. With the support of the Public Library of Limón Mayor Thomas Benjamín Lynch, a group of young people from Limón will participate in the FIRST Global Challenge 2018, in Mexico City, which brings together 160 countries in a robotics contest. The participation of the...
Suriname’s second time at FIRST Global Challenge
Translated from Dutch. Suriname will again participate in the FIRST Global Challenge this year, which will be held from 15 to 18 August 2018 in Mexico City, Mexico. The goal of this competition, which is organized every year in another country, is to get more young...
Young missionaries will participate in FIRST Global, the international robotics competition
Translated from Spanish. This is Marcos Lugo, an electronic engineer facilitator of the School of Robotics and Cyntia Beutler, student, who will assist representing Argentina to the FIRST Global Challenge 2018 to be held in Mexico City from August 15 to 18. "Every Saturday they work...
Woodford to attend FIRST Global Robotics Competition 2018 in Mexico
Three students from Woodford International School have been selected to represent Solomon Islands in the 2018 FIRST Global Robotics Competition in Mexico City. The competition will take place from August 15-18 at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico. The FIRST Global Challenge is an international robotics event with...
Will ‘Team Seychelles’ once again outperform USA, Russia, Canada & France?
Following its outperforming of a number of developed countries in the FIRST Global Robotic Challenge last year, Seychelles will once again participate in this year’s challenge, set to take place at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, in August this year. FIRST Global is a...
Sucre team won first place in robotics tournament
Translated from Spanish. The team called Interconectados won the first place of the First National Robotics Tournament held last Sunday in Sucre, with the participation of 13 other teams from different parts of the country. The new champions are Brayan Durán Toconas (native of Tupiza-Potosí), Eduardo Vargas...
Meet the Vietnam Robotics Team going to the international competition in Mexico
Translated from Vietnamese. With the fire and enthusiasm, the second time to return to the competition FIRST Global Challenge, the Vietnamese team aspires to confirm the stature of Vietnam on the international stage. This year's competition will be held in Mexico in August. Robotics and aspirations spread the...
Student-Built Robots to Tackle Energy Efficiency in International Competition
In two months, student challengers from around the world will be meeting in Mexico to tackle "energy efficiency problems" using robots they've built themselves. The annual FIRST Global is a STEM focused international non-profit that runs international robotics competitions for high schoolers in nearly 160...
Ghana’s all-girls team prepares to fly high at global robotics competition in Mexico
After a stellar performance in 2017 at the maiden edition of the FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition held in the United States, Ghana is preparing for this year’s competition to be held in Mexico in August with another all-girls team. The team is made up of...
All female team prepare for global robotic competition
Five young ladies have been selected to represent Seychelles in the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge which will take place in Mexico City from August 15-18. Sanjeetha Pillay from Independent School, Amy Joubert of Belonie secondary school, Steffie-Anne Monthy of International school, Trishia Labiche of Praslin Vijay...
2018 FIRST Global Challenge Hosts Global Robotics Students in Mexico City
FIRST Global, a STEM-focused international nonprofit that organizes an annual international robotics competition for high-school students from around the world, announced that the FIRST Global Challenge 2018 will convene participants from more than 160 countries, Aug. 15-18, at Mexico City’s Arena Ciudad de México to...
Three Gambian girls to represent Africa at international robotics competition
Three Gambian teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 18 have been selected to represent the continent of Africa at the FIRST Global Challenge 2018 International Robotics Competition in Mexico in August. Amie Sankareh, Vanessa Williams and Ida Camara and their mentor, Juma Baldeh will...
An Afghan Girl
Fatemah Qaderyan is a guest of the Oslo Freedom Forum, and I meet her in the lobby of the Grand Hotel, in the heart of the Norwegian capital. From the kitchen, she orders French fries. Why not? I ask her, “Do you like McDonald’s?” Yes, she...
Ghana’s All-Girls Robotics Team to participate in international competition in Mexico
Ghana will be represented by an all-girls team at the upcoming FIRST Global Robotics competition in México City from August 15 to August 18, 2018. FIRST Global is a nonprofit organisation that organizes a yearly international robotics challenge to ignite a passion for Science, Technology, Engineering,...
Ministry pledges $6m to STEM Guyana team
First Lady, Sandra Granger yesterday received a cheque for $636,000 from Minister of Education, Nicolette Henry on behalf of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Guyana. A release from the Ministry of the Presidency said that this sum, which is the first instalment of a...
FGC Robots Taiwan Sailing Team “The Power of Food Bags” will go to Mexico
Translated from Chinese. (Reporter Liao Xueru/Hsinchu Report) 2018 First Global Challenge (FGC) International Tournament in Taiwan, with a total of 10 high school and junior high school students. On the 25th, Qiming University of Science and Technology of China merged technologies, and finally formed a multi-school...
Students awarded for robots in school labs exhibit their creations
Translated from Romanian. Technology enthusiasts are invited to an unprecedented exhibition of robots created by the best students in Hunedoara County. The locals are invited on Wednesday, May 30, 2018, to the Deva Fortress Park, to see robots made by students representing Hunedoara County at national and...
SCHOOL: SA sends robotics team to US challenge
Five highly talented high school learners have been selected to represent South Africa at the FIRST Global Challenge. The “SpringBots” come from a very diverse background and bring to the team a wealth of academic knowledge, cultural learning and tremendous team spirit. These learners have a passion...
Training for Secondary School Students for International Robotics Competition
The University of the South Pacific’s (USP) Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment (FSTE) is partnering up with For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Global Higher Education Network to facilitate the First Global Robotics Competitionorganised for high school students around the world. FIRST...
Girls Robotic Team Wraps Up Successful Tour Abroad
The Afghan robotic girls team returned home after wrapping up a successful tour in Canada and the US. “We participated in the competition in New Mexico where we won first position and won a gold medal, in Turkey we also came first,” said Leda Azizi, head...
Bhutan to participate in robotics competition
Three Bhutanese will represent the country at the Global Robotic Olympic this year at Arena Ciudad de México, Mexico City. Fabrication laboratory (FabLab) Bhutan has been inviting entries from young enthusiasts to represent the country at the competition that FIRST Global, a global non-governmental organisation holds...
MOCO TEENS SHARE MAGIC OF ROBOTICS COMPETITION
There was no magic involved when the Wizards.exe [Team USA 2018] came home from Detroit with the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship Inspire Award in hand, along with their robot, which took 10th out of 6,000 teams from around the globe. Eleven Montgomery County teenagers have...
STEM Guyana prepares to build energy impact robot
As the day for the First Global Challenge nears, Science Technology Engineer and Mathematics (STEM) Guyana is busy working to build a robot that will “wow” judges at this year’s competition in Mexico. Though the final team of six has not yet been selected, a group...
The young Albanian engineers to the “Olympic Games of robotics” in Mexico
Translated from Albanian. Some young Albanians passionate about engineering, will again represent Albania in the "Robotic Olympics", which will this time be held in Mexico. Albania's participation is facilitated by FIRST, a non-for-profit child-raising organization in the field of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics), and offers four...
Dreamers to reality: Team of girls from Afghanistan shakes up robotics scene
DETROIT - - Through it all, a group of Afghan girls with a passion to build mechanical machines controlled by high-tech robots never let the countless obstacles in their way stop them from pursuing their dreams. First, they came from a culture in Afghanistan where women in...
“How can we change the world?”
Young students from around the world will arrive in Mexico City this August to participate in a competition that taps into robotics to tackle global challenges. The inaugural FIRST Global Challenge in 2017 welcomed high-school students from 157 nations; and this year’s event is expected to be...
About the FIRST Global (Robotics) Challenge
The mission of the FIRST Global Challenge is to inspire science and technology leadership and innovation in young people from all nations in order to enhance understanding, instill the importance of cooperation, address the world’s most pressing issues, and improve quality of life for all. This...
Five kids set for robotics olympics in Mexico
Pune: A five-member team of Class XII students from the city have been selected to participate in the FIRST Global Robotics Olympics in Mexico later this year. The competition, which has students of various age-groups competing to prove their skills in robotics, came into limelight last...
Students of the School of Robotics will participate in a global competition
Translated from Spanish. Cintia, with her facilitator Marcos Lugo, will travel regularly to the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires to receive training in the Educabot space. The objective of the meetings of the Argentine team is that, after getting acquainted, they are integrated into a joint work...
Osinbajo Hails Nation’s Robotics Team for Impressive Washington DC Show
The Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has praised the efforts of Team Nigeria to the FIRST Global Robotic Olympics in Washington DC, US in 2017 for their outstanding performance at the challenge. He made the commendation while receiving the six-member team, their project director, mentor and...
2018 First encounter of the Argentinian Team that will participate in the global robotics competition
Translated from Spanish. They will have the opportunity to represent the Missions Robotics School in the FIRST Global. The team thanked the president of the House of Representatives, Carlos Rovira and the national deputy Flavia Morales. Also to EducaBot and its team "for making us part...
Vice President Osinbajo commends nation’s robotics team for impressive show
The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has praised the effort of Team Nigeria to the First Global Robotic Olympics in Washington DC, U.S., in 2017 for its outstanding performance at the challenge. He made the commendation while receiving the six-member team, their project director, mentor and sponsors...
Afghan dreamers defy the odds
A group of six girls left their families in Afghanistan and travelled for the first time to Canada in January with a dream and a hope. They were determined to build the best robot they could and compete in a variety of robotic competitions including the...
Kenya’s most brilliant techie?
Even though he first got to interact with his first computer when he joined secondary school in 2013, Lewis Wanyeki, 19, was fascinated with technology. He constantly fiddled with his mother’s mobile phone, curious about how it operated. “I dismantled several of my mother’s mobile phones...
Mali: the geniuses of Bamako robotics
Translated from French. Winners at an international competition in Washington, young Malians passionate about robotics are putting their talents to work in a new, brand-new center. Student at the National School of Engineering, Abdoulaziz experiments with electronic fragments in his room ...
Wesley Girls High School to represent Ghana at FIRST Global robotics competition
Six students from Wesley Girls Senior High School will represent Ghana at the FIRST Global international robotics challenge to be held in Mexico City in August. This was announced by STEMbees, a non-profit organisation in Ghana that seeks to empower Ghanaian girls in STEM(Science, engineering, technology...
Zim robotics team’s SOS
In a statement, First Global’s partner, Impact Hub Harare director, Tadzoka Pswarayi, said the money was needed to cover costs of their robot kit, the team’s travel to the competition, training, food and lodging and uniforms among other requirements. “The chance to participate in this competition...
These teenage girls came from Afghanistan to build robots in Canada
The Afghan Dreamers, an all-teenage-girl robotics team from Afghanistan, made international headlines last year after twice being denied visas to visit the U.S. for the 2017 FIRST Global Challenge, a robotics competition involving more than 2,500 kids from 157 countries. They eventually got permission to...
Myanmar’s tech champions
Burmese nerds hope to attract more talent with the promise of winning gold. WITH recurrent power cuts, limited wifi and poor infrastructures, Myanmar is often regarded as a rather weak country when it comes to technological prowess. Most people struggle installing basic apps on their smartphones,...
Taking lead in inspiring lives
While at Harvard, she launched and led the first Zambian robotic team at the FIRST Global, which organises a yearly international robotics challenge to ignite a passion for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). She first heard about the Pan-African Robotics Challenge while channel surfing in...
Women and Girls in STEAM Education
Sara Narimene Boukais discovered last summer that she can change the world. As a member of Algeria’s first-ever robotics team, the 18-year-old spent months designing a machine that can clean polluted water—or, at least, clear a replica of a river littered with colored plastic balls. Sara had...
Students bring home glory at world’s 1st Global Robotics Competition
One hundred sixty three teams from 157 countries competed in the First Global Challenge 2017 Robotic Competition held in Washington D.C. from 16 to 18 July, with the Myanmar team finishing sixth in the competition. Six Myanmar students, Maung Wai Yar Aung from Yangon Technological...
“STEM opened my eyes to a whole new world”
Alejandra is a 17-year-old teenager with a great passion for learning. Originally from Acahualinca, one of the communities with highest social risk in Managua. The everydayness of her life experienced a complete turnaround when she was given the opportunity to apply for a scholarship for...
Zambia’s robotics team
The inadugural zambian robotics team entered FIRST Global, a competition that pits 163 national teams against each other. Last year's theme was clean water. Each group is sent a basic kit and guide, and then it's up to them to create and program the machine. -->...
Brit + Co — The Afghan Girls’ Robotics Team Won Hearts — and Prizes — Against Incredible Odds
In a tumultuous year, a group of teenage girls from Afghanistan became the unexpected heroes of an underdog story that captivated the entire world. It all began in June, when the all-female team of high schoolers was denied US visa necessary for their participation in July’s...
Dean Kamen’s Plan For Getting Kids Into STEM
Dean Kamen started his career as a medical inventor on accident. When he was young, Kamen's older brother, an MD Ph.D. candidate, was working in pediatric oncology. "He’d come home on weekends, frustrated," Kamen said on stage at the Forbes Under 30 Summit. "You have a two-pound baby you’re...
Afghanistan’s All-Girl Robotics Team Wins A Second Major Award At Robotex
Afghanistan's Girl Robotics Team just won the Entrepreneur Challenge at Europe's largest robotics festival, the Robotex festival in Tallinn, Estonia. At Robotex, the team faced off against 3700 other competitors and 1600 robots in a series of competitions, including robot basketball games, races, and mazes. The...
Afghan Girls’ Robotics Team Overcomes Setbacks to Win Contest in Europe
It has been a year of travel difficulties, project setbacks and family heartbreak, but a girls’ robotics team from Afghanistan has made a comeback. The group of teenagers, who attracted international attention last summer when they were briefly denied visas to the United States to take...
Robotics kits arrive in Yap, remote island of stone money
COLONIA, Yap (Habele) — Students on Micronesia’s famously traditional island of stone money have begun to design and assemble hi-tech programmable robots. Robotics clubs at five high schools in Yap received VEX Classroom and Competition kits earlier this month, kicking off expansion of the popular Yap...
Ricardo Salinas to Host First Global Challenge 2018 International Robotics Competition in Mexico
Translated from Spanish. The event promotes scientific and technological knowledge among youth from more than 150 countries, with the goal to build a better world CITY OF PUEBLA, Mexico, Nov. 21, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Grupo Salinas, a group of dynamic, fast-growing and technologically advanced companies, deeply...
Double Gold for Trinity Robotics and Team Oceania
South Australian students Michael Brady, Bowen Hawkey, Samuel Moloney, Luke Voigt and Nathan Axford represented Team Oceania and competed against students from more than 160 nations to win the award. The Gold Einstein Award acknowledged the team for having the best robot and the best game...
An encouraging participation in the FIRST Global robotic challenge
Three MCAST students who are studying software development and multimedia software development, have built a robot and competed in the Global Challenge Robot Olympics in Washington. One of the students is Andrea Abela who is a current student worker at MITA. We talked to him...
Afghan Girls’ Robotics Team Warmly Welcomed In Holland
The Afghan girls robotics team were warmly welcomed in an international event in Amsterdam in the Netherlands on Thursday. Researchers, scientists and inventors from 100 countries attended the two-day event. The robotics team displayed their robot at the event. Fatima Qaderyan, member of the robotics team, made an...
Team Seychelles honoured
The group of students from the Beau Vallon secondary school known as Team Seychelles who took part in the First Global Challenge Robotic Competition held last month in Washington, USA, have been honoured. This was through a reception held on Friday evening at the Savoy Resort...
Madrasah Students in Depok Win Robot in America
Translated from Indonesian. Technological developments helped bring the achievements of Indonesia's young generation. One of them is shown through Wo-Wi, an innovative robot made by Madrasah Aliyah (MA) students Technonatura, Depok, West Java. Unmitigated, this robot won the second winner in the International First Global Challenge Olympic...
Youth from Sherbrooke closely follow the new Governor General Julie Payette
Translated from French. The role of Governor General has suddenly become of interest to young people at the Séminaire de Sherbrooke. The winners of the gold medal at the most recent First Global competition, held in Washington last July, had the opportunity to meet astronaut Julie...
Fulbrighter Inspired by International Robotics Competition
Last July, I had the honor to volunteer at the FIRST Global Challenge, which was held at the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. It was simply wonderful to see the smiles on the faces of the youth I worked with, especially knowing I helped contribute...
Robotics Tournament to bring together Ecuador’s fans
Translated from Spanish. For the first time, people of all ages who have a hobby of robotics, can be part of the international tournament Robot Games Challenge Pacific. The activity organized by the club Robota of the Polytechnic School of the Coast (Espol) will be held...
Macarena Abarca, the young 15-year-old teaching robotics to deaf persons
Translated from Spanish. A Chilean girl of only 15 years gained an internship in New Zealand to learn programming in Code Avengers, one of the main companies of the tech industry. Her name is Macarena Abarca and her initiative is to bring robotics to deaf people. According...
The Quest for STEM Education in Pakistan
“Everybody here is working together, loaning each other batteries, tools, helping each other fix programming issues to lift each other up,” Participant, First Global Challenge 2017. Imagine a world that is not divided by politics, hatred and war…. a world where every nation helps its neighbors,...
Myanmar in FIRST international robot olympics
Translated from Burmese. Robotic technology in the world in many developed countries has been widely used for many years, but in a developing country like Burma, they are just getting started to study opportunities. This technology to study the current situation in Burma, Regarding the outlook,...
International Robotics Olympiad
Seven teenagers from Collyer’s Sixth Form College travelled to Washington DC in the summer to represent the United Kingdom at FIRST Global, an international robotics Olympiad. In May, the Collyer’s Robotics team made county headlines by coming third in the UK Student Robotics competition – the...
Crown Prince officiates 4th UTB Convocation Festival
HIS Royal Highness Prince (Dr) Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah ibni His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah, the Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office and Pro-Chancellor of Universiti Teknologi Brunei (UTB), yesterday officiated at UTB’s 4th Convocation Festival 2017. Upon arrival at...
ICT students at global robotics challenge in the US
Three ICT students at the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (Mcast) took part in the first Global Robotics Challenge which was held in Washington DC, United States. The Maltese team, composed of Patrick Brejza, Clive Tonna and Andrea Abela, performed very well in the...
FEM gives robotic kids $1,000
Electrical innovator Amos Vandy and Computer Programmer Daniel McWilliams have received a $1,000 USD from Bishop Abu of the Flaming Evangelical Ministries (FEM) to help them with their scholarship to study abroad. The two are part of a team that represented Sierra Leone at the...
Team Alphabot Makes Pakistan Proud @ the FIRST Global Challenge
The FIRST Global Challenge is a major international robotics event that took place in Washington DC in last month. The competition brings together students between the ages of 15 to 18 years to increase their knowledge of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Teams from about...
Technology: Team Alphabots makes Pakistan proud!
“You are the first generation in human history that can end extreme poverty in the world. And from what I saw of these robots, I know you can do it.” — President World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, at the #FGC2017 Award and Closing Ceremony. Amajor international...
Mexico is Bronze in FIRST Global Challenge
Translated from Spanish. Mexico was represented by a team made up of students from the Universidad Panamericana (UP), Jorge Ochoa, Guillermo Campos, Antonio Dávila, Alonso García, Eduardo Martínez, Héctor Carrillo, Gerardo Ascencio, and the Preparatory Institute of the Technological Institute of Monterrey Superior Studies (ITESM), San...
Team Oceania on the BBC
Trinity College students crowned world’s best robot builders at FIRST Global competition
A group of South Australian high school students have been crowned the world's best robot builders at an event dubbed the "robotic Olympics" in the United States. The inaugural FIRST Global competition invited nearly 1,000 high school students from 157 different countries to battle it out...
Photo Gallery: Cambodian Teens Participate in Washington’s FIRST Global Robotics Olympics
Cambodian youth from two high schools in Siem Reap province are among 157 national teams participating in this year’s debut FIRST Global Challenge, an annual international robotics competition taking place in Washington, DC from July 16 to 18. The competition is aimed at encouraging young...
Iraq robotics team returns home from international contest
BASRA – A six-strong Iraqi team has returned home to Basra after rubbing shoulders with students from nearly 160 other nations at a robotics contest in Washington, D.C. After six years of competition, this year's FIRST Global Challenge event held in July over three days was...
Team Ghana discussing ‘Robotic Education’
Suriname Robotics Team meets Vice President of Suriname
PARAMARIBO - The Suriname Robotics Team, consisting of Shayant (18), Ayan(16) and Ivana (16), was received in audience by the Vice President of the Republic of Suriname H.E. Mr. Ashwin Adhin on August 17, 2017. The meeting identified a greater incorporation of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics --...
Team Iceland meets President of Iceland
Translated from Icelandic. The president welcomes representatives of Iceland in the FIRST Global Robotics Competition. It was held in Washington in the US in July. Iceland's team came to Berlín with teachers in programming for robots and other escorts. The robot itself helped and showed the...
Robotic Olympics: money … waiting for gold in 2018 for young Alba-gaillonnais?
Translated from French. They did not obtain the supreme coronation but in the immediate, the money sufficed for their happiness. Mathis and Quentin Giton and Antoine Poirrier, the son of Gaillon and Aubevoye's teachers, were not unworthy at the recent Robotics Olympics held in the United...
Zim robotics team back from America
Zimbabwean robotics team was ranked at 56 out 163 nations at the annual robotics competition that took place in Washington DC, United States from the 16th to the 18th this month.. The robotics team participants are between the ages of 15 to 18 drawn from various...
Team Zambia performs beyond expectations at FIRST Global robotics competition
I HAD an opportunity to meet up with the young team that represented Zambia in the FIRST Global robotics competition help in Washington DC, a team of seven students and one mentor who came together to build EPOH, a robots name which means hope spelled...
Tunisia Telecom congratulates the 7 medalists at the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge
Translated from French. Three days after their return from the United States, where they won a gold medal (for the entire team) and another silver medal (for the 7th), these high school students aged 15 to 18 were accompanied by their Sponsors of the First Skills...
Tunisia’s gold and silver medal in international robotics competition in the United States
Translated from French. Again, Tunisia has shone with its young skills in an international competition. Seven young Tunisian high school students proudly honored the national colors by winning gold and silver at the Global Robotics Challenge organized by FIRST Global from 16-18 July in Washington, DC....
Robots are set to take Africa’s manufacturing jobs even before it has enough
It was supposed to be Africa’s century, then the robots arrived. The dawning of the fourth industrial revolution offered African countries the opportunity to take advantage of technological gains, leapfrogging their developed counterparts. As China did at the end of the last century, Africa could have...
SKN robotics team excels at international level
Washington, D.C. – In its first-ever appearance at the FIRST Global Robotics Competition, a group of three students from the federation, accompanied by Dr. Ricardo Neil, placed 36th out of 163 nations in a three-day competition from July 14-17. Jermelia Henry, Zhavier Shaw and Jervik Lapsley...
Science organisation in Seychelles wins support award at int’l robotics competition
The Seychelles National Institute for Science, Technology and Innovation(NISTI) won the bronze medal for outstanding supporting organisation at a global robotics challenge in Washington, D.C, earlier this month. The Al-Khawarizmi Award from the Iranian Research Organisation for Science and Technology was given to organisations who are...
Meet these young talented Nigerian designers who make the nation proud
Some Nigerian teenagers are putting the country in good view with their participation in the first robotics Olympics held in Washington D.C in the United States. This challenge happens to be the first global robotic Olympic to be held. The Nigerian teenagers that represented the nation...
Tunisia winner of the grand robotics challenge!
Translated from French. The first "Al-Khwarizmi Award", awarded to the team that contributed most to the progress of the competition, and the second "Albert Einstein Award for Outstanding Supporter", awarded to the teams that produced the most powerful robots, were both awarded to the Tunisian team. This...
Sierra Leone News: Financial gulf between robotic team and dream
In room 300 on the fourth floor of Leone Building on Wilberforce Street, sits the future of Sierra Leone robotic engineering. The room is full of teenagers and young people glued to computer monitors fiddling with their keyboards with exhilarating concentration. Amongst these geeks, is the...
Team Nigeria Shines In 2017 Global Robotics Competition
A team of seven students, who represented Nigeria in the maiden edition of the FIRST Global Robotics Olympiad (GRO) in Washington DC, U.S, have been commended for their impressive performance. The team came third out of 41 African countries that participated in the competition and ranked...
Despite inadequate govt support, Team Nigeria shines in global robotics competition
A team of seven students, who represented Nigeria in the maiden edition of the FIRST Global Robotics Olympiad (GRO) in Washington DC, U.S. have been commended for their impressive performance. The team came third out of 41 African countries that participated in the competition and ranked...
Myanmar Robotics Team Makes Top 10 at Competition
YANGON — A team of Myanmar engineering students who landed a top 10 ranking at the world’s first international robotics competition hope their achievement will inspire young people to practise science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in order to improve the country. The team finished six...
Luxembourg joined the FIRST Global Robotics Competition
Translated from Luxembourgish. 164 countries joined this robot competition together, and this year Luxembourg also represented a first time. We have accompanied the team! --> See the Video ...
‘These Honduran students changed my life’
BEAVERCREEK — Seven High School students from Honduras participated in the FIRST Global Robotics Competition in Washington, D.C., with the help of Dayton-based nonprofit Shoulder to Shoulder. Shoulder to Shoulder’s 27-year mission has been to help bring sustainable health, nutrition and education services to the people of...
High school robotics team impresses judges
High school student Chhoeut Chanthy had never before seen a robot, let alone built one that operated on code she had written. But that all changed a few months ago when Ms Chanthy and five classmates in Siem Reap province became the first Cambodian team to...
Team Brunei of First Global Challenge 2017 feted
THE Bits ‘N’ Bytes Company yesterday hosted an appreciation ceremony for sponsors of Team Brunei who attended the inaugural First Global Challenge 2017 which was held in July in Washington DC, the United States of America. The event took place yesterday at Lecture Hall 2...
Relatives of young people participating in the FIRST 2017 Global Robotics Competition love and optimism
Translated from Spanish. Relatives of the young URBE students participating in the First 2017 Robotics World Cup in Washington DC gathered in the URBE videoconference room to support their children in full competition through a video call. This is the first time that two Engineering students from...
Micronesia Students Proudly Compete in Robotics “Olympics”
Three students from Yap State proudly represented the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) at an international high school robotics competition this July in Washington DC. Natasha Loochaz, John Steven Gilinug, and Francis Yarofalyango, comprised Team Micronesia, and joined students from over 150 other nations at the...
How a Robotics Competition Could Transform Algeria — And the World
The Algerian robotics team looked worried as they huddled around their boxy machine. It was the opening day of the First Global international robotics challenge — which brought youth from 160 countries to Washington, D.C. in July to compete and test their mechanical engineering skills — and the robot...
Evo congratulates the Bolivian team that reached the final of “FIRST Global Challenge”
Translated from Spanish. President Evo Morales today congratulated the young people who qualified for the final round of the First Global Challenge, the most important global event in the field of robotics. "Out of 165 countries, 15 and 16-year-old Bolivians qualified for the #Robotica World Cup final....
Bolivia at the top of the robotics world
Translated from Spanish. With a robot to take care of water quality, young sucrenses Fabián Malpartida, Alejandro Núñez, Luis Fernández and Susan Terán set a record for Bolivia in the First Global Challenge, which took place in the USA. The national team was fifth in South...
Chilean team participates in robotics competition “FIRST Global”
Girls in Tech Chile is a foundation since 2014 that promotes female participation in science and technology, forming part of a US NGO of the same name present in 60 countries. From the experience, the Ingeniosas program was created to promote vocations of women of school...
Seven Romanian students receive applause at the most important robotics competition in the world. They were very close to conquering the gold
Translated from Romanian. More than 150 teams from all over the world participate in the Olympics. At the most important robotics competition in the world, about 1,000 children are enrolled. The Romanian team consists of: Alexandru Florescu, Daha Andrei, Preda Andrei, Rares Badici, Oliver Szavuj, Alexandra Pacuraru,...
7 Mumbai Students Make Robot to Clean Contaminated Water, Winning Awards at FIRST Global Challenge
Representing India at the FIRST Global Challenge, an Olympics-style robotics competition held in the US from July 16-18, a team of seven students from Mumbai designed a robot called Neutrino that can separate pollutants from contaminated water. Of the 100 applications that came in, this 7-member...
Bermuda all-girl team show they have what it takes
One team with one month and one robotics kit proudly represented Bermuda at the FIRST Global 2017 Robotics competition last week. Despite the relatively short time to prepare, they beat the US, Canada, Russia and Britain to finish 59th out of 163 and were the top...
Ukrainian schoolchildren entered the Top-20 strongest robotics of the world at the international Olympiad FIRST Global Challenge
Translated from Russian. As we reported earlier, last week in Washington, the world's Olympic Games in robotics FIRST Global Challenge took place. As a result of the competition, a team of Ukrainian schoolchildren consisting of Igor Zhukovsky, Inga Manzhulenko, Mikhail Koreshkov and mentor Nadezhda Vladykina entered...
Romania’s Robotics Team goes to the US Olympics on their own money. “A parent has made considerable sponsorship”
Translated from Romanian. The students will arrive in Washington on Friday, where they will compete with over 160 teams. Unfortunately, Romania has no sponsor, so the parents of these young people are paying thousands of euros for us to represent our country. Alexandra Pacuraru, Olympic student: "The...
Team Guyana at the FIRST Global Challenge, 2017
This past week, I, along with eight other members of STEM Guyana’s robotics team, had the pleasure of participating in the FIRST Global Challenge 2017. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded in the US in 1989 to inspire young people’s...
Robotics: Tunisia Gold and Silver Medalist in the USA
Translated from French. With seven young high school students between the ages of 15 and 18, the First Skills Club has just won two gold and silver medals at the 2018 Global Robotics Challenge, held July 16-18 in Washington-USA . Representing the Tunisian national team in the...
World of robotics: Bolivia stands out among the best in South America
Translated from Spanish. Many battles had to be won for two days in order to reach this place and the excitement overflows because they defended the colors of Bolivia in an event where 163 countries in total sought to demonstrate the best they have in the...
Central American youths surprise the world in robot olympics
Translated from Spanish. Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua participated in the robot olympics promoted by First Global, an initiative to motivate youth to use and enjoy science and technology. Youth from 157 countries participated in the First Global Challenge, the world's first robotic olympic, in Washington DC, USA. The...
Mexicans win bronze in World Robotic Olympics
The students Andrea Terán, Luis Fernando Orta and Luis Gerardo Ramos of PrepaTec of San Luis Potosí were winners when they obtained the bronze in the First Global First Challenge Robotics Olympic Games, held in Washington, USA. "It has been an honor to get this recognition,...
Bolivia goes to the World Cup
Translated from Spanish. A few months ago, I saw a beautiful movie, "Spare Parts" (2015, "The Robot Life"). The story revolves around a high school teacher who, tempted by a large technology company, receives a juicy job offer. Four Hispanic students in irregular migration situation appear,...
Robotics competition “FIRST Global Challenge 2017”, Mali wins silver medal in USA
Translated from French. Washington has just hosted the "First Global Challenge 2017", a competition for robotics and home automation. They were 7 young Malians who took part in this event. Participants from 125 countries took the silver medal in engineering design! After three months of training, high...
FIRST Global Competition – Madagascar in the robotics competition
Translated from French. A first. Madagascar is indeed present at the FIRST Global Challenge, an international robotics competition. The Malagasy team of six students aged between 16 and 19 years, led by Sahaza Ramarosandy arrived in the land of Uncle Sam on Friday to participate in...
Team T&T 16th at Global Robotics Challenge
THREE pupils of Presentation College, Chaguanas, placed 16th out of a field of 163 at the inaugural FIRST Global International High School Robotics Challenge in Washington D.C. on Tuesday. The team comprised of Form Five pupils Avidesh Marajh (team representative and programmer), Fahad Hosein (team captain...
The team of Europe winners of the first Olympics in robotics, Serbian high school students delighted the judges
Translated from Serbian. The Team of Europe is the winner of the first Robotic Olympics, held in Washington, organized by First Global Program. Vice-championship was won by a team of high school students from Poland, while the third was a team from Armenia. Among the representatives of the...
In World Robot Challenge, the winner was cooperation
Translated from Spanish. Brilliant young high school students in 153 countries came to Washington, DC, with their gleaming newly assembled robots and after long trips, to star in the most incredible, fantastic and wonderful competition of its kind that takes place worldwide. For three days from Sunday...
Young Tunisians victorious in Global Robotics Challenge
Translated from French. Motivation and loyalty, Seven young high-school students from Sfax and the First Skills Club took the plane to the United States to defend the Tunisian flag at the Global Robotics Challenge organized by FIRST Global from 16 to 18 July in Washington Considered the...
FIRST Global Challenge – Madagascar wins bronze medal
Translated from French. The Malagasy team managed to rise to third place of the podium in an international competition of robotics in the United States. On the podium. Madagascar has once again shone with his young skills on the international stage. The Malagasy team brought up the...
Inaugural FIRST Global Robotics Olympiad picks team India as winner
A team of seven Indian teenagers, who participated in the FIRST Global Robotics Olympiad in Washington, has won the Zhang Heng Engineering Design Award, surging ahead of 157 countries that participated in this year’s FIRST Global Challenge. The team also won bronze for Global Challenge Match. “Kudos...
Mashable — The Afghan girls robotics team just won a silver medal
The all-girl robotics team from Afghanistan that was initially denied entry to the United States for an international competition is taking home the silver medal. Fittingly, they received a the accolade for "courageous achievement" at the FIRST Global Challenge, an international robotics competition where teams were...
The Washington Post — At a global robotics competition, teens put aside grown-up conflicts to form unlikely alliances
As six robots battled it out on the floor of the DAR Constitution Hall’s auditorium during the FIRST Global Challenge competition Tuesday afternoon, a cheer rose above the din of voices echoing across the stands. “Team Hope! Team Hope! Team Hope!” The cheering came from a corner...
Afghan Girls in Global Robotics Competition are Afghanistan’s Future
The girls of Afghanistan are strong, intelligent, and resilient. The six high school students competing in the FIRST Global international robotics competition exemplify this and so much more. The FIRST Global robotics challenge is an annual competition organized to ignite a passion for Science, Technology, Engineering,...
SELECTION OF ROBOTICS WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE 1st. INTERNATIONAL ROBOTICS OLYMPIAD
Translated from Spanish. From July 14 to 18 the National Robotics Team will participate in the "FIRST Global" where they will compete in more than 160 countries on 5 continents, in DAR Constitution Hall in Washington DC in the United States. In a solemn ceremony, and prior...
Students of the Middle Electrical School from Sarajevo at the prestigious Olympics from Robotics in the US!
Translated from Bosnian. At the beginning of 2017, the Secondary School of Electrical Engineering in Sarajevo received a direct invitation to participate in the First Global Challenge, which will be attended by over 160 countries worldwide. First Global Challenge is a Robotic Olympics organized by the FIRST...
Burundi to participate in world’s first robot Olympics due in U.S.
BUJUMBURA, July 11 (Xinhua) -- Burundi will participate in the first-ever robot Olympics due in Washington DC in the United States on July 16 to 18, the coach of the Burundian team said Tuesday. "Six secondary school pupils from Burundi and their coach will depart Burundi...
Tanzania: 7 Young Scientists Bound for USA Given Nation Flag
Dar es Salaam — The Deputy Minister for Education, Science, Technology and Vocational Training Stella Manyanya on Tuesday handed the national flag and bid farewell to seven Tanzanian students who are going to participate in International Robotic Challenge in USA. The annual challenge, organised by US...
Young Georgian Inventors Participating in ‘First Global’
Young Georgian inventors will travel to Washington to participate in International Robotics Olympiad ”First Global” supported by TBC Bank. The International competition will be held on July 16-18 for the first time. Participants will represent more than 160 countries. Teams are composed by 15-18 years old,...
Maltese ICT MCAST students to participate in the First Global Challenge Robotic Olympics
Three Maltese ICT Students will be participating in the ‘First Global Challenge – International Robotic Olympics’ that will be held between the 16th till the 18th July in Washington DC. At Esplora, Parliamentary Secretary Silvio Schembri together with US Ambassador Gill Kathleen Hill met the three Maltese students;...
Six ambitious youngsters represent Moldova at FIRST GLOBAL Challenge
Six ambitious youngsters Moldova will represent at this competition scheduled between July 16-18, 2017. They also used to partake in competitions in Estonia, Denmark and Spain. Since April, the participants have sent their schema details, and now the robot is ready to be presented. It has...
SMART Sistas girls leave for FIRST Global Challenge in USA
Three girls, members of SMART Sistas, have left Port Vila on their first leg of a trip to represent Vanuatu at the FIRST Global robotic challenge to be held from July 16-18, 2017 in Washington, DC, USA . Lana Molivurae from Epauto School, Lilia Raptigh from...
Pta learners represent SA at robotics olympics in USA
Six learners have been chosen to represent South Africa at the First Global Challenge: Robotics Olympics in Washington DC in July. Mentor and coach Johan Benade put together a team to participate in the inaugural challenge. The team is called Mighty Minds South Africa. Mikhaeel Reddy, Barbara Moagi...
Seven Indian students to represent INDIA in the FIRST Global – World’s first Robotics Olympics
New Delhi: FIRST Global – The Olympics of Robotics is going to be held for the first time at a global level. 160 countries are participating in this 1st inaugural year of First Global Competition (FGC) 2017. Seven Mumbai students and 1 mentor have been...
Team Oman in the News
Seven Mumbai kids for robotics contest in US
MUMBAI: Later this month, seven students from Mumbai schools will represent India at an Olympic-style robotics challenge to find solutions to provide access to clean water. Students of Jamnabai Narsee International School, Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Oberoi International School and Ecole Mondiale World School, have been...
Team Honduras in the News
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Madagascar: when digital natives are passionate about robotics
Translated from French. They are six Malgaches, between the ages of 16 and 19, passionate about robotics and programming, and will soon fly to Washington DC to represent Madagascar at the FIRST Global Challenge, an international robotics competition. I had the chance to talk with these...
Talented youth will go to the USA to compete
Translated from Spanish. The event, which will bring together 160 countries to participate in the first robotic world olympic called First Global Challenge in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Constitution Hall, Washington D.C., will be held from July 16 to 18. This year's "H2O FLOW"...
Team St Lucia gearing up for the first ever Robot Olympics
The competition is being held in Washington DC, USA, from 16-18 July, with one team invited from each country in the world. More than 160 nations have confirmed their attendance. St Lucia’s team is made up of three A-level students: Shergaun Roserie, Reshul Narhari, Keeghan Patrick. Loewenvell Polius,...
Robotic Olympics: a Seminaire team to Washington
(SHERBROOKE) The robotics team at the Séminaire de Sherbrooke will fly to Washington soon to take part in the first edition of First Global. The Sherbrooke team is the only Canadian team to participate in the International Robotics Olympiad, which will bring together 176 teams...
Compatriots to take part in World Robotics Olympics in the USA
Translated from Spanish. Asunción - Five young people from Los Laureles College (CEL) are preparing to attend the First Global First Robotics Olympics, scheduled to begin July 13 in Washington DC. They are José Zeissig, Eliana González, Sebastián Santacruz, Maxi Vuyx and Alejandro Molinas, all between...
World of Robotics in Washington summons five young Paraguayans
Translated from Spanish. The boys were invited to participate in the REV Robotics category, which has been included in the curriculum of the private educational institution for three years. One of the mentors who accompanies the boys is the innovative teacher José Ávalos, who won a prize...
Lithuanians will represent the country in the world of robots in the United States
FIRST Global is an annual robotics competition taking place in the USA and bringing together gifted young inventors from all over the world. This year's competition will be held July 16-18. Washington DC Lithuania will be represented by a team from the Robotics School. The only...
BD school-goers to compete world’s 1st Intl Robot Olympics in Washington
FIRST Global is launching the world's first international robot Olympics for high school students in July in Washington DC, where 164 nations including teams from almost every nation in Asia will participate. 'Team Bangladesh', a 6-member group of high school students will represent Bangladesh with...
Nicaraguan youth construct a robot that will represent the country in the FIRST Global Challenge
Translated from Spanish. Five teenagers will represent Nicaragua in an international robotics competition to be held in Washington, USA, July 14-20. When you want, you can and obstacles become challenges, as demonstrated by this group of young Nicaraguans, who supported by the nonprofit foundation, Fabretto, build a...
The students of Sfax represent Tunisia at the “Robot Olympiad” in Washington from 13 to 20 July 2017
Translated from Arabic. A group of young people, consisting of 7 students from the Sfax Institute in Tunisia, will participate in the "FIRST Global Challenge", the annual robotics event to be held in Washington DC from July 13 to October 20. The group was selected by the...
Venezuelan youths to represent Venezuela in international robotics competition in the USA
Translated from Spanish. With ingenuity, humility, and above all; A proud Venezuelan flag, a group of young Venezuelans will represent Venezuela for the first time in the FIRST Global Challengue 2017 robotics competition in Washingtong D.C. (U.S). The Venezuelan delegation is named Venebot (Venezuelan Robots for being...
Young people of the National Robotics Team will compete in the United States
Translated from Spanish. More than 160 countries will participate in the first First Global Robotics Olympics, to be held in the United States from July 14 to 18. The competition aims to bring together future young leaders in technology. Guatemala will be represented by young people, who...
Cambodian Teens Hope to Win at Global Robot Making Contest
“When I was 12 years old, I dreamed of standing on the stage and becoming famous because of my inventions,” said Chanty, 17, a high school student in Siem Reap. Next month, Chanty and her five teammates will travel to the United States to compete...
Five Nicaraguan Teens Working on Robot for International Contest
MANAGUA – Five teenagers will represent Nicaragua at an international robotics competition to be held in Washington DC from July 14-20, authorities at the foundation supporting them announced Tuesday. The teens will go up against other competitors from more than 160 countries in a contest where...
Kosovo is part of the largest international robotics competition
Translated from Albanian. Kosovar high school students Elita Hajrizi, Liburn Bajraktari, Flokart Pajaziti, Gezim Morina and Rigon Statovci, under the mentorship of UBT Rector, Edmond Hajrizi, will be representatives of Kosovo in the largest international competition in the field of robotics , FIRST Global Challenge, to...
S.A.C SCIENCE CLUB TO COMPETE IN ROBOTICS GLOBAL CHALLENGE
Teens in robotic battle against the world
THREE students will build a robot in a contest against high school teams from 160 countries in Washington DC next month. The Grace Lutheran College Rothwell students Sarah Lockyer from Bracken Ridge, Daniel McGowan from North Lakes and Zac Manoiloff from Woody Point will compete to...
‘RUKUBOT TEAM NEPAL’ Participating on “First Global Challenges”
RUKUBOT TEAM, Team Nepal Participating on “First Global Challenges” at Washington DC, USA on July, 2017. Nepal commonly known as the multilingual, multicultural and multireligious country is one of the developing countries in the world. The world has moved forward in the field of Science,...
Team RukuBot and Their Parents Share Their Feelings
Recently, Team RUKUBOT held a meeting with parents and guardians of all team members. The main objective of the meeting was to share our feelings regarding the project. All Team RUKUBOT members were present along their parents, team mentor and other caretakers of the team....
Team Albania robotics “Robot Reveal”
Robotic team representing Albania at the First Inaugural Robot Competition in Washington D.C is pleased to invite you to Robot Reveal. --> Read More...
Students of São João da Madeira are going to represent Portugal in FIRST Global
Translated from Portuguese. The Group of Schools of Dr. Serafim Leite, from S. João da Madeira, will represent Portugal in the international programming and robotics competition designated FIRST Global. The competition takes place in the United States from 16 to 18 July. --> Read More...
Team Serbia on Dobre Jutro
South Auckland students to represent NZ at US robotics competition
Four students from South Auckland are aiming to solve the world's problems using robotics. Kacey Roberts, Daniel Gallahar-Ikitule, Esther Asi and Vanshika Ram will represent New Zealand at an Olympics-style robotics competition in the United States in July. The theme for the First Global competition this year...
Elizabeth Moir Students to Participate in World’s First International Robot Olympics
With a mission to spread science and technology leadership around the world, FIRST Global is launching the world’s first International Robotics Olympiad for high school students which will take place from July 16 - 18 in Washington D.C. More than 160 nations have registered to participate in the event,...
São João da Madeira School Represents Portugal in an International Robotics Competition
Translated from Portuguese. Serafim Leite Secondary School in São João da Madeira announced today that it will represent Portugal in the world competition that in July will evaluate new programming and robotics solutions for potable water storage in the United States. The "FIRST Global" competition, organized by...
Holy Rosary church team excels at robotics expo
A young and talented group from the Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church yesterday won first place at Guyana’s inaugural robot and technology exhibition. Held at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue, the exhibition was facilitated by STEMGuyana, which will also enable a local team’s participation...
All-girl team in global robot competition
A team of local students is preparing to represent Bermuda at the inaugural FIRST Global robotics competition. The all-female team of five Bermuda High School students will battle it out Olympics-style against 162 other teams from around the world in Washington DC next month. The girls have...
STEM Guyana perfecting their robot for World Championships
THE nine-member team representing Guyana at the inaugural Robot Olympics next month in Washington D.C. is currently perfecting the robot they have to build for the event and building the overall team capacity. The team consists of: 15-19 year old participants: Ryan Benschop, Anthony Frank, Arianna...
STEM Guyana receives $2.5M for participation at First Global Robotic Challenge
A team comprising several young people, who are part of the Science, Technology, and Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Guyana Project will be representing Guyana in July at the First Global Robotic Challenge in Washington D.C, United States of America, with support from the Government, through...
Guyanese youths get GYD$2.5 million support to participate in First Global Robotic Challenge
A team of youths, who will be representing Guyana in the FIRST Global Robotic Challenge in the United States (US) next month, has received support amounting to GYD$2.5 million, the Ministry of the Presidency announced Thursday. The group is part of the Science, Technology, and Engineering and...
Winners of Robotica 2017 will represent Ukraine at the FIRST Global Challenge
Translated from Ukrainian. July 14 in the U.S. will be the FIRST Global Challenge - the world's first Olympic Games in robotics for children. Teams from 160 countries, including Ukraine, will take part in the competition. The subject of the upcoming competitions is a water crisis and...
Participation Of Suriname at the FG Robotics Challenge 2017
Translated from Dutch. Suriname is one of the 163 countries participating in the inaugural FIRST Global Challenge, held in Washington D.C., America from 16 to 18 July 2017. The team that will depart consists of 3 teenagers between the ages of 15 and 18 and an...
Participation of Suriname at FG Robotics Challenge 2017
Translated from Dutch. Suriname is one of the 163 countries participating in the inaugural FIRST Global Challenge, held in Washington D.C., America from 16 to 18 July 2017. The team that will depart consists of 3 teenagers between the ages of 15 and 18 and an...
Suriname takes part in Robotics Challenge
Translated from Dutch. PARAMARIBO - 16-year-old Ivana Codrington (16), Ayan Jhagroe (16), 18-year-old Shayant Sital and mentor Daniel Lachman will represent Surinam from 16 to 18 July during the inaugural FIRST Global Challenge in Washington. The team will prove with a self-propelled robot to successfully address...
Suriname joins FG Robotics Challenge 2017
Translated from Dutch. Ivana Codrington (16), Ayan Jhagroe (16), Shayant Sital (18) will participate on behalf of Suriname at the inaugural FIRST Global Challenge, held in Washington D.C., America from 16 to 18 July 2017. Daniel Lachman (technical team mentor) goes along as their supervisor. Suriname...
FIRST Global: Team Portugal competing at the International Robot Olympics – Washington, DC
Contestants from 160 countries will build robots revolving around access to clean water. The goal is to show the leaders of tomorrow that by communicating, cooperating, and working together, using the tools of science and engineering, they can change the world. According to former US Navy...
Cabo Verde participates in the first international robotics competition in the United States of America
Translated from Portuguese. A team consisting of 4 students and 1 teacher from Liceu Ludgero Lima and Technical School of São Vicente will represent Cape Verde this July in the 1st International Robot Competition to be held in Washington DC, United States of America. It is an...
WORLD: St. Lucia including 163 other teams participating in the 2017 FIRST Global Challenge
FIRST Global (www.first.global) is hosting the world’s first international robot Olympics for high-school students, with nearly 160 participating nations – along with six continental teams representing the major land masses – each committed to sending one team to represent their country on the world stage. The...
Nearly 160 Nations including Liberia to Meet in Washington, D.C. for World’s 1st Robot Olympics
Washington, D.C. – FIRST Global (www.first.global) is hosting the world’s first international robot Olympics for high-school students, with nearly 160 participating nations including Liberia– along with six continental teams representing the major land masses – each committed to sending one team to represent their country...
There is an entirely new kind of international Olympics. Slovakia will be represented by the Galileo School team from Bratislava
Translated from Slovak. FIRST Global launches an entirely new kind of Olympics, this time focusing on the invention of the young generation. The Slovak team will take on the highly determined, hard-working students of the bilingual gymnasium of Galileo School in Bratislava. Viliam, the two Martinovia, Andrej,...
Portuguese Team to participate in FIRST Global Challenge
Translated from Portuguese. The Portuguese Team is from the Dr. Serafim Leite School Group, from S. João da Madeira. They are Reuben, Rui, Raul and João are the team that will represent Portugal in this world mission. The First Global Challenge is an international robotics event with...
Students from Limon will represent the country in robotics competition
Translated from Spanish. Three teenagers from Limon will represent Costa Rica in an international robotics competition called the FIRST Global Challenge. The competition will be held July 16-18 in Washington, United States, and will bring together 260 other teams from around the world. Those selected are Johardy Hunter...
The Journey of Team Sri Lanka to the FIRST Global Challenge 2017
“There are teams from nearly 160 countries this year. It’s not just about solving global problems. It’s about solving problems together with those from other cultures,” said Samantha Tenduf-La – an overseer of Team Sri Lanka describing the FIRST Global Challenge 2017. In case you’re...
SENA learners from Manizales are in annual robotics tournament in Washington D.C.
Translated from Spanish. "Two learners from Manizales, and two others from Medellín and Soacha, are members of the SENA team that will travel to Washington D.C. in July, to demonstrate that Colombia has advanced in science, technology, engineering and mathematics from the earliest age," said Mauricio Giraldo,...
SERBIAN ROBOT CONQUERS AMERICA Our high school students made a machine that has a special task
Translated from Serbian. Our team of high school students several months of discussions and preparation robot which in July will represent Serbia at the International Olympics in robotics in Washington. Vladan Joksimovic, Teodora Golubovic and Lazar Švraka from the private Belgrade High School "Creative Pen" Dalibor Naspalić,...
Four SENA trainees will represent the country in annual robotics tournament in Washington D.C.
Translated from Spanish. Designing, assembling and controlling a robot that can enter a simulated river in a model and capable of separating particles of water will be some of the challenges that four apprentices from three SENA technoacademies will have to overcome, who will represent Colombia...
The Catalonian RoboCaspers represent the State in FIRST Global
Translated from Catalan. The team RoboCaspers, consisting of four Catalonian teenagers, has been selected to represent Spain in FIRST Global, a robotics competition that will gather youth from 160 countries to overcome a series of challenges based on facilitating access to the potable water. This is not the...
WOODFORD REPRESENTS SI IN GLOBAL ROBOTICS COMPETITION
TEAM Woodford International School (WIS) will represent Solomon Islands in the United States in the field of competitive robotic building next month. The team of four dedicated science and technology WIS students, under the guidance of school mentor, Rakesh Pandey, are gearing up for the FIRST...
SERBIAN TEAM ON ROBOTICS OLYMPICS IN WASHINGTON! The task is – clean drinking water for all!
Translated from Serbian. Team of the Republic of Serbia in the robotics olympics make disciples gymnasium Kreativno Pero, Serbian high school Nikola Tesla in Budapest and XII Belgrade High School, and was formed at the invitation of the organizers of the project - the International Committee...
FIRST Global: Team Portugal competing at the International Robot Olympics – Washington, DC
A team of Portuguese high school students will travel from Portugal to participate in the inaugural International Robot Olympics to be hosted in Washington, DC, at Constitution Hall, July 16-18, to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge. Contestants from 160 countries will build robots revolving around...
Olympic competition in robotics — Interview with experts
Translated from Ukrainian. The Ukrainian team is sent to the world's first Olympic competition in robotics. The team from Kiev is young people 15-16 years old. To participate in competitions, they designed a robot, which will be presented at the competitions in Washington. The head of international...
SRPSKI ROBOT OSVAJA AMERIKU Naši srednjoškolci napravili mašinu koja ima SPECIJALAN ZADATAK
Tim naših srednjoškolaca već mesecima pravi i priprema robota sa kojim će u julu predstavljati Srbiju na Međunarodnim olimpijskim igrama u robotici u Vašingtonu. Vladana Joksimović, Teodora Golubović i Lazar Švraka iz privatne beogradske gimnazije "Kreativno pero", Dalibor Naspalić, Ilija Grk i Matija Đurović, učenici srpske...
Solomon Islands students to attend US global robotics competition
Solomon Islands students will participate for the first in a global robotics competition in Washington DC July this year. A team of four students from the Woodford International School will compete with students from more than 160 nations in the event. Solomon Islands was the only team...
Ukrainians will go to the US for the first “Olympic Games” of robotics
In Washington, July 14, 2017 for the first time in the history of robotics competitions held FIRST GLOBAL Challenge in the Olympic format. Ukraine to present his work team of three contestants aged 15-16 and mentor. The theme of the first Olympic competition FIRST GLOBAL Challenge...
FIRST Global of the robotics team will hold a presentation of the project and plans for the Olympics Washington
Givi Zaldastanishvili American Academy of FIRST Global team, which the American Academy, Physics and Mathematics v.komarovis N199 public school and found. Vekua Physics and Mathematics N42 public school students, consisting of a mentor for the robotics project will hold a presentation of the invited guests,...
ST PETER’S LUTHERAN DISPLAYS ROBOTICS PROWESS, STUDENTS TO REPRESENT AUSTRALIA IN GLOBAL TILT
Four students from St Peter’s Lutheran College in Indooroopilly will join their peers from Grace Lutheran College as members of Team Australia, on their way to the USA to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge. The event is an international robotics competition to be held...
FIRST Global invites Pakistan to participate in an international robotics event
Robots are gradually taking the part of human in nature. It would not be wrong to say that in some decades the life will be made easier by robots performing many tasks. For some it is a good news and foe others it is not...
We are the future —Teen robot makers set to represent Nigeria at world contest in US
The setting is the ground floor of a tastefully furnished duplex at Surulere, Lagos. It is raining lightly; it has been raining, in fact, since morning. At the gate, the security man and a few other people stand under a small shelter, and they all...
Guyana ready to partake in first-ever Global Robot Olympics
A group of Guyanese are set to participate in the inaugural Robot Olympics slated for July in Washington, District of Colombia (DC), USA. Last week, First Lady, Mrs. Sandra Granger met the group of young participants and informed them that the Ministry of Education and other organizations...
Venezuela on the road to the world of FIRST Global 2017 Robotics
Translated from Spanish. The FIRST Global Challenge is an international robotics event with more than 100 countries from around the world. These delegations will travel to Washington, D.C. next July to participate in the inaugural game to be held in the capital of a different nation...
Team Albania, the group that will represent Albania in the FIRST Global Challenge in the US
Translated from Albanian. Team Albania is the team that will represent Albania in the FIRST Global Challenge on 13-20 July in Washington DC, where they will compete with teams from around the world. The team consists of 10 students from different schools in the capital and...
MCAST Students selected to participate in international competition
Translated from Maltese. MCAST students attending college have been selected to jipprateċipaw in the first competition of its kind; Olympics-the International Robot Competition. Such as along with 160 nationwide, including 40 nation of Europe, will be competing in Washington DC between 16 and 20 July. Students, Patrick...
FIRST Global Challenge 2017
The inaugural FIRST Global challenge will be held 16-18 July 2017 in Washington, DC (on the grounds of the Constitutional Hall). The challenge is organized as Olympic competition among the teams from more than 160 countries. The national teams will be composed of high school-age...
First international robotic Olympics with student team from Weiz
Translated from German. Vienna / Weiz (APA) - US organization First Global is organizing the first International Robotic Olympiad for High-Level Students in Washington DC (USA) from 16 to 18 July. Teams from 160 countries from all continents participate. Austria is represented by a team of...
16 year old to represent Cameroon at international robotics challenge
Cameroon’s Larissa is the only girl selected to be part of the team of students who will be representing their various countries in this year’s international robotics challenge. The 16 year old, who lives with her mother, two sisters, three brothers and two nephews in her uncle’s...
Venezuelan delegation will participate in the next FIRST Global 2017 world robotics
Translated from Spanish. The FIRST Global Challenge is an international robotics event with more than 100 participating countries, where delegations will travel to the city of Washington DC this July to participate in the inaugural game to be held in that city and then take place in...
NIGERIA WILL COMPETE AT THE FIRST GLOBAL ROBOT OLYMPICS, THANKS TO THESE 7 SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
For years, Nigeria as a country has not been pulling any trees where the field of robotics is concerned. This is not because Nigerians are less interested in robotics as their other counterparts in many countries of the world, but majorly because the prevailing conditions...
First Global Challenge Unpacking
Translated from Hungarian. https://youtu.be/hns3HmQAUPE We went to the Fazekas Secondary School in Budapest and made a really special unboxing video with the home team of First Global's robotic competition. As a stairway to LEGO tournaments, only in America, this year, the teams have been invited from many...
6 Seychellois students to participate in robotics challenge in US capital
(Seychelles News Agency) - Six secondary students from Seychelles will participate in an international robotics challenge in Washington D.C. in July. A robot kit was handed over recently to the team in Seychelles, a group of 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean, by the International First Committee Association through...
Peruvian students to compete at world’s first International Robot Olympics
Washington D.C. (U.S.), May. 25. A Peruvian nine-strong group of secondary school students will represent the Inca country at FIRST Global's very first Global Challenge, an international robot olympics to be held this July in D.C. Peru will thus become one of the 150+ nations participating in...
Advanced science, robotics, showcased by island students
COLONIA, Yap (Press Release) — Elaborate cultural dances and seafaring canoes have made the Micronesian Islands of Yap famous, but this month it was the ultra-advanced Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math skills of local students on display. An annual competition and exhibition organized by Yap Catholic High...
From Acahualinca to Washington to Compete in Robotic Olympics
Translated from Spanish. Five young people from the San Francisco Educational Center of the Acahualinca neighborhood of Managua will represent Nicaragua in the first Robotics Olympics of the First Global organization based in Washington D.C., USA. Víctor Gutiérrez, Gloria Jarquín, Alejandra Mercado, Ana María Zeledón and Engell...
Women from all over the World Organize Robot Olympics
Translated from Spanish. 160 national and 5 continental teams of high school students will participate in these olympics in Washington, D.C. in July. Ellas.mx - Despite the increase of women in careers related to politics, humanities, economics and the arts, women continue to be segregated in the fields...
Young Xanthi will represent the country in the largest robotics competition in Washington in July with the participation of 160 countries
Translated from Greek. We do not stop surprising the young Xanthi of robotics. After their huge success in 2015 at the Olympics in Qatar and the silver medal and last year's 4th place in Olympiada in India it's time to be distinguished in the United States. In July,...
SMART Sistas to represent Vanuatu at first robotic challenge
Three girls, members of SMART Sistas, will represent Vanuatu at the inaugural FIRST Global challenge to be held from 16-18 July, 2017 in Washington DC, USA. Each country will be represented by its chosen national team, which will compete with its self-assembled robot within constantly changing cooperative...
Over 40 African Countries Including Liberia To Attend 1st Int’l Robot Olympics In Washington, D.C.
Alexandria, VA. – FIRST Global (www.first.global) is hosting the world’s first international robot Olympics for high school students this July in Washington, D.C., with nearly 160 nations in attendance, including more than 40 nations from Africa. With each nation planning to send one team to represent...
Robotics Society in Serbia: Meeting of Serbian national team at this year’s Olympics in robotics and team ETF Robotics
Translated from Serbian. The Serbian Team in this year's Olympics in robotics, which will be in July in Washington in the United States, consists of students of the Gymnasium Kreativno Pero, Serbian Grammar School Nikola Tesla from Budapest, and the Twelfth Belgrade High School, had the opportunity to...
Nigerian Youths Set for Robotic Olympic in USA
A group secondary school student drawn from public and private schools are now ready to represent Nigeria at the First Global Robot Olympic Challenges alongside 149 youths from other nations of the world. Founded by philanthropic inventor Dean Kamen to inspire a passion for science and...
Soft skills key to massive job creation, says expert
Nigeria’s First Global Robot Challenges National Coordinator, Mrs. Remi Willoughby, has said the development of soft skills will help the government to tackle youth unemployment and its associated challenge of increasing crime rates in the country. Speaking in Lagos during a media event to unveil the...
Team Nigeria Upbeat, Set Target for World’s First Global Robot Olympics
Nigeria will be represented at the FIRST Global Robot Challenges (FGRC) with 149 other nations thanks to efforts by Faisal Jarmakani, robotics enthusiast; Mrs. Remi Willoughby, an exceptional educator; and Professor Sola Sofola, emeritus professor of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Lagos. Founded by Dean...
7 Nigerian students to fly country’s flag at first global robot Olympics
Those who think that Nigeria does not have what it takes for global competitiveness in the knowledge economy should better have a rethink. With the innovative skills shown by the talented Nigerian students, there are positive signals that the country will not left out in the...
Estudiantes mexicanos participarán en campeonato mundial de robótica
Translated from Spanish. Mexico, April 6 (Notimex) - A group of young Mexican students will represent the country for the first time in the robotics world championship, FIRST Global Challenge 2017 to be held in Washington DC, USA from July 14 to 18. The Mexican representative who will...
Učenici Kreativnog pera predstavljaju našu zemlju tokom Olimpijskih igara u robotici
Translated from Serbian. On the proposal of FIRST Global, the organizers of the International Olympiad in robotics, students gymnasium Kreativno Pero will together with students of the Serbian high school Nikola Tesla in Budapest and with his mentor will represent our country during the Olympic Games in...
Apoyan al talento mexicano
Translated from Spanish. With the aim of boosting the talent of our young people worldwide, Ricardo Salinas through the Azteca Foundation, sponsors the National Team that will compete in the FIRST World Robotics Olympics at the secondary level and where more than 155 countries will participate. To give...
Estudiantes de Chuquisaca presentarán robot que mide y cuida el agua en el First Global Challenge
Translated from Spanish. A professor at San Francisco Xavier University's Faculty of Technology, Said Pérez, said Tuesday that the team of students from Chuquisaca will present a robot to measure and care for water quality in the FIRST Global Challenge, which will be held from July 14 to 18...
Webber: Help Yap go to robotics competition
When was the last time you heard about the Yap Robotics team? The Yap Robotics team you say? The only thing we know about Yap is stone money, manta rays and grass skirts! Au contraire. The Habele Outer Island Education Fund is a U.S.-based 501(c)3 nonprofit, started...
Micronesian students head to international robotics competition – Marianas Variety
The famously traditional Island of Stone Money is sending top students to a high tech global robotics competition. Students from 153 nations will gather in Washington, D.C. this summer for the international high school robotics Olympics. Few will have traveled as far — geographically or culturally...
Malian high school students expected to compete in robotics competition in Washington – Journal Scientifique et Technique du Mali
The Mali national team will be in training soon to participate in FIRST global in the United States and Panafricain Robotique Competition (PARC) in Senegal, two competitions on robotics. Malians will have to compete with thousands of children across the world. --> Read More ...
7 students take on the challenge of robotics in the US – Berita Harian Online
Translated from Malay VALUE: Seven students aged between 15 and 17 years selected to represent Malaysia at the robotics competition FIRST Global Challenge in Washington D.C., USA on 16-18 July. They are King Adam Ahmad Sultan of SMK Kubang Kerian, Muhammad Jamil Razif (MRSM Lenggong), Janice...
Robot Challenge For Pakistan By FIRST Global – Technology Bux
The First Global is the organization that composes a yearly worldwide robot challenge to touch off enthusiasm for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) among the more than two billion youth over the world. FIRST Global welcomes one group from each country to take an...
Robotics Competition: Mali teams in training for three months – Journal Scientifique et Technique du Mali
The big robotics competitions are getting ready. The teams in Mali face the challenges of more than 140 countries around the world this July in Washington DC and other African countries. Inerde, an organization responsible for training Mali teams on Saturday announced the list of...
FIRST Global invites Pakistan to participate in an international robotics event – TECH LIST
FIRST Global, as its tradition for some previous years, this time to is organizing the international robotics challenge. It aims to help promote the love and passion for Science and Technology and attract people towards Engineering and Mathematics. The four points they focus on are called...
Intibucá students to participate in Olympic Robotics Games in the USA
In the 21st century, it is becoming increasingly clear that the global challenges we face as a planet will require global, STEM inspired solutions from the lowest valleys to the highest mountains across the world. That is probably why the first news article to be...