After 20 years, the Fujian Provincial Youth Robot Competition was held in Xiamen again—on August 12, the 3-day 20th Fujian Provincial Youth Robot Competition ended successfully at Fliport Convention and Exhibition Center. The scale of this year’s competition hit a record high, with 621 teams from across the province and 951 “smart” teenagers having a wonderful duel.
The event is sponsored by Fujian Science and Technology Association, organized by Fujian Youth Science and Technology Activity Center and Xiamen Science and Technology Association, and co-organized by Huli District Science and Technology Association, Xiamen Science and Technology Museum and Chengyi Science and Technology Exploration Center. The competition consists of six competitions: robot comprehensive skills competition, extreme challenge competition, engineering challenge competition, innovation challenge competition, robot creativity competition and virtual robot competition. Participants are required to perform on-site computer programming, engineering design, mechanical assembly, Roadshow, defense, etc., and the competition will be divided into three stages: primary school group, junior high school group, and high school group. Among them, the robot comprehensive skills competition revolves around the theme of “Exploring the Starry Sky”, and simulates the launch of a spaceship and space exploration through robots. The robot creativity competition revolves around the theme of “smart traffic safety”, requiring contestants to give full play to their creativity and design novel, scientific and practical traffic robots.
At the closing ceremony, the organizer pointed out that this year’s competition showed a phenomenon of younger players, with a relatively large proportion of primary school players and a higher proportion of female players than in previous years, indicating that the coverage of the current robot competition is getting wider and wider, and the popularity rate is also increasing. higher. At the same time, more and more participating robot equipment sets are designed and assembled by the contestants themselves. There are many personalized robots making their debut in this competition, which are worthy of encouragement and promotion.
It is reported that, as a provincial event of the National Youth Robot Contest, the first Fujian Provincial Youth Robot Contest officially kicked off in Xiamen in 2003. Since then, it has been organized by districts and cities in the province in turn. In recent years, Xiamen has vigorously promoted the extensive development of youth science and technology innovation activities, and promoted the continuous improvement of the city’s science and technology education level. This year’s competition is held again in Xiamen, which is the full affirmation and recognition of Xiamen’s popular science education work. Since the event was held, nearly 20,000 young contestants have entered the provincial competition platform, and more than a thousand contestants have stood out to the national competition and even the international competition.
Splendid exhibition on the theme of popular science education
This year’s competition will be accompanied by a popular science education theme exhibition – “Artificial Intelligence and Science Popularization Research Exhibition”, which will provide young people and science and technology workers with a “second classroom” to participate in science popularization practice and a place for scientific check-in. Xiamen University, Jimei University, Xiamen Science and Technology Museum, Chengyi Science and Technology Discovery Center and other 14 units participated in the exhibition, and further expanded the popularization, participation and coverage of the competition by showing the public the achievements of youth science education and Xiamen’s characteristic popular science research.
Among them, Xiamen University exhibited a two-wheeled robot, and introduced the latest technology and application scenarios of robots to visitors; Big Bear Robot exhibited desktop laser engraving machines and high-precision handmade works by master makers, and also provided visitors with The interactive experience service of robots; the Cangjiang Research Camp uses VR, digital media, astronomical telescopes, etc. to help visitors better understand the universe and understand science; Chengyi Science and Technology Discovery Center displays and introduces the model of the Long March launch vehicle, woodworking, 3D printing, etc. A blend of ancient and modern science and technology works and research projects.
At the same time, combining local characteristics, our city has created dozens of influential popular science and research routes, and promoted them to the outside world during the competition. The routes cover marine astronomy, natural exploration, engineering technology, traditional skills, macroscopic museums, rural revitalization, There are 7 categories of red inheritance. It is reported that in the next step, the city will continue to promote the construction of a characteristic brand of science popularization and research, and polish the “Xiamen business card” in the field of popular science education.
Contestants gain honor and grow
The robot keenly recognizes the line, moves flexibly, swings the robotic arm to project small balls, carries cubes, and stacks cubes… This year’s Fujian Youth Robot Competition is open to the public for the first time. The championship team exhibition competition is very exciting and competitive. Before the closing ceremony of the competition, the champions of all competitions in the province gathered together to dedicate a peak duel for robot enthusiasts.
In this competition, Chen Yu, a junior high school student from the Sports Center Campus of the North Attached School in Haicang District, won the championship in the “Robot Creative Competition”. His entry was “Smart Bridge Car”. “At the beginning of this year, I admired the Chinese rescue team who went to Turkey to carry out earthquake rescue, and gave me the idea of designing a rescue vehicle.” In Chen Yu’s view, although the name of this work is “a bit earthy”, it is quite practical. As the name suggests, the car can intelligently identify ground subsidence and potholes through sensors, and stretch out ladders to build bridges at both ends of the hole, or put ladders into the holes for rescue.
The champion is dazzling, but more importantly, the contestants have grown up in the competition. Sisters Li Xinyue and Li Xinyan, who are in the fifth and third grades of Jimei Primary School respectively, won the second prize in the “Comprehensive Robot Skills Competition”. There are three rounds in this event. In the third round, they made a mistake. The robot failed to recognize the correct line and went astray. After carefully watching the performance of other players, they kept replaying and thinking about how to improve: Can the programming be more accurate? Is it possible to slow down the travel speed to give the robot more time to recognize? In the case that the mistake has already occurred, should we give up this scoring point in time and go straight to the next one… The sisters are full of fighting spirit: “We will continue to participate in the competition next year and strive to get better results!”
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More and more Xiamen kids love science and technology
Instructors ‘increasingly motivated’
According to the referee team, the youth robot competition is a scientific and technological activity that integrates knowledge and skills of various disciplines. The setting of this competition is closely related to the needs of future development, requiring contestants to carry out creative designs around the theme. The competition not only tests the players’ innovative ability, hands-on ability, and programming ability, but also tests the team’s collaboration ability, information collection and analysis, on-site decision-making, and ability to withstand pressure.
Behind the best players, there are often excellent instructors. In this competition, more than 200 instructors participated in Xiamen. Mr. Song Jiangang from Xiamen No. 3 Middle School won the title of “Excellent Coach”. After more than 20 years of cultivating science and innovation education for young people, Song Jiangang has brought out many students who have won awards in national and international competitions. How did he find “good seedlings”? In addition to asking students and self-recommendation of interested students, Song Jiangang prefers to take children to participate in science popularization activities organized by schools or communities, such as aircraft model making, single-chip computer experiments, etc., to observe children’s performance and guide them to fall in love with science . “Instead of pursuing results in competitions, teachers should help children improve their scientific and technological literacy from the perspective of popular science.” Over the years, Song Jiangang has clearly felt that the atmosphere of science and technology education in Xiamen has become increasingly strong, and more and more children in Xiamen are fond of science and technology. “It’s getting more and more motivated,” he said. (Xiamen Daily reporter Huang Wanjun, correspondent Fan Lihui, Xiamen Daily reporter Xu Qiuheng (except signature)
Original title: The 20th Fujian Provincial Youth Robot Competition was held in Xiamen
Editor in charge: Fang Di
2023-08-14 01:38:00
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