This weekend was held The first International Tournament of the School Robotics Leaguewhere they participated More than 200 students from Chile and Brazilwhose teams built robots from scratch.
The competition included fifty teams of schoolchildren (30 from Chile and 20 from Brazil), the students belonged to the Chilean School League, the Brazilian Youth Robotics Tournament (TJR), the International Robot Tournament (ITR) and the International Robot League of Brazil.
The young people, between 8 and 16 years oldfaced each other palm to palm in two days that took place at the Colegio del Verbo Divino, in Las Condes. And they did it with robots built from scratch by themselves.
Ricardo Basulto, coordinator of the Chilean School Robotics League, which is supported by the company PRECISION, highlights that this is the first international tournament held with these characteristics in Chilein an effort that allows the level of competitors to increase, but also seeks to contribute to the teaching and culture of children interested in robotics, even more so considering that 75% of the Chilean participants in this type of tournament come from public education.
“The Robotics League highlights the progress of students in the field of new technologies and encourages scientific and technological activity among young people. The benefits are diverse, as they strengthen the development of social and cognitive skills through programming and solving robotic challenges,” says Basulto.
Meanwhile, Luis Rogerio da Silva, director of the Brazilian Robotics Federation and head of the Rio delegation, welcomed the organization of this event in our country, a great opportunity for fraternal competition and mutual learning between schoolchildren in training from both countries with robotics as a common interest.
The winners of the first International School Robotics League Tournament
The International Robotics League Tournament had five categories. The main one was Rescue and Journey to the Center of the Earthwhere robots use their optical line follower sensors to autonomously navigate a circuit of continuous and discontinuous lines.
In this category, which is repeated in all national and international robotics tournaments, three Chilean teams were the winners: The current national champions, from the Bicentennial Amanda Labarca School of Vitacura; followed by the team from the Diego Echeverría School of Quillota and the SS.CC. Padres Franceses School of Viña del Mar.
There were also some more “playful” competition categories, such as the Sumo categorywhere two robots compete with force to push the opponent out of the combat area, in this one won the Brazilian team ECIT José Guedes Cavalcante.
Other categories like these were the Tug of Warwhich poses a challenge of strength between two robots connected by a rope; and that of Synchronized Dancewhere the teams danced to music in coordination with the robots they themselves built.
The school robotics tournaments organized by the Neoeduca Foundation with the support of PRECISION seek to democratize the development of science and technology through free meetings open to all technologies.
