World Robot Olympiad, El Salvador

Our robotics club achieved a significant milestone this past weekend: Two teams classified for the World Robot Olympiad Finals in Dortmund, Germany!

Six ABC Robotics teams took part in the WRO El Salvador competition, in the following categories:

The Robomission category, a Lego-based challenge, required participants to build robots to complete missions on a map. The teams were divided into three age groups each with different maps and challenges, namely: Elementary (8 - 12 years old), Junior (11-15 years old) an Senior (14 - 19 years old).

The ABC participated with 2 teams in the Junior age group: 

• Don Kamaron Technologies (Eduardo Urrutia, José Santiago Casanovas, Ricardo Baires)

• ABC EVO (Moisés Mejía, Mateo Guzmán, Daniel Chévez). 

In the senior age group we participated with  3 teams: 

• Los Cuidadores (André Mejía, Néstor Cáceres, Enrique López), 

• ABC Robotics Club (Marcos Narváez, Juan Andrés Miguel, Arturo Sánchez), 

• 24 Tech (Christian Vásquez, Rafael Menéndez, Diego Arévalo)

The Future Innovators category allowed participants to choose from a range of technologies to design and build a robotic solution. They chose a subcategory from Robots in rescue missions, Robots in Healthcare and Robots at Home.

The ABC Bulldogs Team (Elena Atanacio and Jeanette Mejía) competed in this category under the elementary age group (8 - 12 year old), in the Robots at Home subcategory.

  

ABC Came Out on Top!

• The ABC Robotics Club team won first place in the Robomission - Senior category. 

• The ABC Bulldogs team won first place in the Future Innovators - Robots at home category. 

Both teams qualified for the WRO Finals in Dortmund, Germany, as national champions in their categories. The Finals will take place from the 14th to the 19th of November 2022.

• The ABC Don Kamaron Technologies team also won second place in the Robomission Junior category wrapping up an astonishing performance from all the teams. 

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The link to the WRO 2022 Finals website is here.

The World Robot Olympiad association was founded in 2004 with one mission in mind:  

“To bring together young people all over the world to develop their creativity, design and problem-solving skills through challenging and educational robot competitions and activities” (WRO). They decided that each member would host a national competition and the winners would attend the annual WRO® international final hosted by a different country each year.

This year, WRO® El Salvador in collaboration with Colegio Highlands hosted the national event, with the theme "My Robot My Friend", outlining that "the combination of robotics and artificial intelligence can change the world and especially the environment of humans. The season challenges are connected to the ways that robots can help humans. How can we make robot-human interaction helpful and safe?" (WRO).

Congratulations to all participants, who offered their best effort and made all this possible in a very short time.