The mega event took place in the City of Buenos Aires, at the Mary Terán de Weiss Stadium where students from secondary schools in the province of Misiones were the winners of the Robotic Cup 2019.
The missionary students will travel in October to a world robotics tournament in Dubai called First Global Challenge, where they will present their named robot "Julito", in homage to a teacher facilitator who was part of the project and who died two weeks before this competition, in a road accident while traveling to a robotics competition in Chaco.
The teams from each province designed and programmed their robots under the slogan that they should be able to carry out cleaning tasks in polluted oceans, so "Julito" is a mobile platform capable of detecting elements in its environment and with a lifting platform it can pick them up and upload them to different shelves, that is, removing them from the water they pollute.
The competition took place at the Mary Terán de Weiss Stadium, where a platform of about 16 square meters was the "ocean" in which the robots competed to see which one was capable of collecting the greatest amount of pollutants, which were represented by volleyball and golf balls painted orange, which they had to deposit on platforms of different heights.
The captain of the missionary team, Azul Silva, told Télam said that "the mentor teachers promoted robotics activities in schools throughout the province and thus they saw which children were most enthusiastic about the idea and invited us to be part of this team."
"Building the robot took us two months, which were very intense work to solve each problem that arose and to be able to integrate as a team because we are all between 13 and 19 years old and come from very different places in the province," he noted.
"There are many things that we want to improve 'Julito', and we are very excited to be able to represent Argentina and all these kids from all the provinces who came here with the same passion as us in Dubai," he concluded.
Posters with legends such as "Passion", "Collaboration", "Logic", "Programming", "Challenges" and "Fun" surrounded the stands filled with family and friends of the participants who palpitated each game with flags and a superclassic atmosphere of football.
With the stories of Osvaldo Príncipi and his detailed detail of the movements of the robots, this contest qualified the missionary team for the First Global Challenge, the World Cup of the specialty in which young people from 200 countries will compete in October in the city of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
The local instance, which circulated on networks with the hashtag #CopaRobotica2019, was organized by the Ministry of Education and Innovation from the city of Buenos Aires and the company Educabot.
Matías Scovotti, CEO and co-founder of Educabot, explained to Télam that through this tournament the boys are "generating a community among teenagers and training the country's future technology leaders."
In fact, the competition challenges participants to use programming and robotics tools to find solutions to global challenges such as ocean pollution, and strengthens skills such as creativity, collaboration, and teamwork.
This will be the third time Argentina has participated in the World Robotics Championship. In the 2018 edition—held in Mexico City—the national team had a remarkable performance: it finished in 13th place and won the Safety Award.
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Updated on: 03/09/2019 00:00:00
Source of Information: Telam
