Delhi schools to represent India at World Robot Olympiad
Tuesday, 16 October 2007, 19:30 IST
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New Delhi: Two schools from Delhi and one each from Chandigarh and Mumbai won at the Indian Robot Olympiad 2007, held here Monday. Vasant Valley School (Delhi), Dhirubhai Ambani International School (Mumbai), Amity International School (Delhi) and St. John's High School (Chandigarh), will now go on to represent India at World Robot Olympiad in Taiwan in November. More than 60 teams with 180 students participated in the event to build and programme robots from specially designed Lego Robotics Kit. The kit has over 1000 different parts and a CPU in which the whole circuiting is done by LEGO and the students do the assembling and the programming part. "The participants at Indian Robot Olympiad have displayed great imagination and programming prowess with their LEGO Education's robotics sets providing a clear indication of what these bright minds will blossom into in future," said Sudhanshu Sharma, Managing Director of Techtronics, India. Techtronics India and Vasant Valley jointly organised the event. "We are training teachers so that they can educate these children on robot making as it does not have any circuiting or hot rods involved in making these robots, its is easy to make," said Shabnam Sharma, director, Techtronics, India. Amity International won the first prize in the primary category (age less than 12 years). The team from St. John's won the second place. Vasant Valley won the first prize in the junior-high category (age 12-15 years) and the senior-high category (age 15-18 years). The team from Amity International won the second place in junior-high category while Dhirubhai Ambani International won the second place in senior-high category. Apurva Kalia, vice-president (R&D) at Cadence Design Systems, who was also present at the event, said: "Robotics is an exciting field that integrates science, engineering, mechanics, electronics and programming. It encourages students to learn while building and constructing. It develops problem-solving, team-working and creativity in students and brings out their potential."
Source: IANS
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