The city of Piraeus was at the center of the world’s largest educational robotics event, as it successfully hosted the “FIRST GLOBAL CHALLENGE 2024” at the Stadium of Peace and Friendship, from September 27 to 29.
For three days the “heart” of this unique international educational competition “beat” in Piraeus, which attracted global interest in the field of robotics, strengthening its extroversion.
More than 2,500 children aged 14-18 from 193 countries, 150 important personalities, large technology companies, foreign and Greek universities and over 500 volunteers participated in the competition.
The Municipality of Piraeus was a supporter of this leading robotics event.
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In this context, the Mayor of Piraeus Yiannis Moralis welcomed on Saturday at S.E.F. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for the “FIRST GLOBAL CHALLENGE 2024”, where they toured the stands of the National Robotics teams, talked to participants, and then watched the competition process.
In the evening of the same day, Mr. Moralis hosted a dinner for the official guests of “FIRST GLOBAL CHALLENGE 2024”, at the new restaurant of Pyrgos Piraeus, which was attended by the Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Sofia Zaharakis, the American Ambassador George Tsounis, the Deputy Governor Islands and President of the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce Yiannis Voutsinas, Deputy Mayors Adriana Zarakeli and Dimitris Karydis, Piraeus University Chancellor Michalis Sfakianakis, President of the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce Giorgos Papamanolis-Dozas and President of the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce Thodoris Kapralos. In addition, the founder of the “FIRST GLOBAL CHALLENGE” Dean Kamen, United States Senator Maggie Hassan, the Governor of the State of New Hampshire Christopher Sununu, Peter Diamandis, the founder of the FYI.AI Organization and singer of the popular band ” Black Eyed Peas” Will Adams, Chief Executive & co-founder of MellonLab Chrysoula Koniakou.
Earlier, the competing students participated in a party at a well-known café-bar in S.E.F., where they had fun with traditional Greek dances.
The representatives of the teams, the organizing committee and the representatives of the sponsors attended an event of the 3rd Gastronomic Festival of the Municipality of Piraeus in Korai Square, while the Greek national robotics team visited the American Space of the Piraeus Municipal Library, where the children were informed about the innovative actions of.
In addition, hundreds of guests of the “FIRST GLOBAL CHALLENGE 2024” were guided by boat to the coast of Piraeus on the ship “GEORGIOS BROUFAS”, where they were informed about the history and culture of the city.
On Sunday, September 29, the final of the Games, the Closing Ceremony and the Awarding of Medals took place at S.E.F.
The gold medal was awarded to the South African team in the international unity category by the Deputy Mayor of Outreach, Tourism and European Programs, Adriana Zarakelis, while the gold medal was awarded to the Great Britain team in the engineering Documentation category by the Deputy Mayor of Planning and Sustainable Development, Dimitris Karydis.
The Municipality of Piraeus supported the “FIRST GLOBAL CHALLENGE 2024” through the Directorates of Planning and Sustainable Development and Outreach, Tourism and European Programs, with the co-organization of MellonLab and the Ministry of Digital Governance.
The Mayor of Piraeus, Yiannis Moralis, emphasized:
“The world organization of robotics, science and technology “FIRST GLOBAL Challenge 2024” was completed with great success in our city. It was a special honor for the Municipality of Piraeus to host this leading international robotics event, as we welcomed to our city thousands of students from all over the world, who impressed us with their enviable skills, as well as with the creative and innovative projects they presented. It was a great celebration for Piraeus, three days of innovation and technology with the new generation starring, once again, in a demanding sector and I congratulate them for that. For our part, we made every effort so that our guests could get to know our city, its history and its culture as best as possible.
I would like to thank the responsible Deputy Minister of Digital Governance Konstantinos Kyranakis, the Deputy Mayors Adriana Zarakelis, Dimitris Karydis and the employees of their Directorates for their contribution, as well as MellonLab and Ms. Koniakou for the organization and our constructive cooperation. I would also like to express my warm congratulations to the Greek National Team that won 4th place in the robot game category! The Municipality of Piraeus will continue to participate directly or indirectly in international initiatives, strengthening the extroversion and visibility of the city outside the borders of our country”.
The Deputy Mayor of Outreach, Tourism and European Programs, Andriana Zarakeli, pointed out:
“We feel particularly proud that our city welcomed the World Competition “FIRST GLOBAL Challenge 2024″ at the Stadium of Peace and Friendship. The Municipality of Piraeus deservedly hosted leading international events and further strengthened its extroversion. I had the honor of awarding the gold medal to the incredible South African team in the international unity category. The energy, innovation and teamwork displayed by the children was truly admirable. Congratulations to all the contestants for showing us the future of technology and collaboration. For all of us at Piraeus Municipality, it was a wonderful experience and we look forward to the future.”
The Deputy Mayor of Planning and Sustainable Development, Dimitris Karydis, noted:
“The First Global Challenge 2024, the global educational robotics competitions held in the previous days in Greece and in S.E.F. in Piraeus, were completed with great success. For three days Piraeus was not a city in the world but the whole world in one city.
Congratulations to all the children from the 193 countries who participated.
It is certain that the future belongs to them. But the most important thing is, and they proved it in practice, that they want to create a better world, where the development of technology and robotics will coexist with Peace, Friendship, Solidarity, Teamwork and Cooperation”.
For the “FIRST GLOBAL CHALLENGE 2024”
FIRST GLOBAL is a competition that promotes innovation, creativity and collaboration among young people. Students through FIRST GLOBAL had the opportunity to engage in solving important global problems and demonstrate their engineering, programming and technology skills, but also to share with the public their culture and the unique character of each nation.
The theme of this year’s competition was “Feeding the Future”! An innovation challenge, in which participants research and develop their own innovative solutions to create a more resilient and equitable food system, highlighting how the application of technologies benefits economic, social and environmental sustainability, while building a robot for the competition track that simulates problems that the global community must solve immediately for a sustainable future.
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