Angola participated in October at the 2019 World Robotics Championship. The group of Angolans they represented at the robotics world championship in Dubai belongs to Arotech (Angola Robotics and Technology), young people who came together to inspire Angolan students and arouse interest in new technologies and robotics.
About the competition
FIRST® Global Hosts an International Robotics Competition to Raise the Passion for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (“STEM”) Every Year for Over 2 Billion Young People Around the World for the 2019 Edition Dubai It was the chosen destination.
By bringing these future STEM leaders together in an engaged and collaborative competition that investigates the importance, enthusiasm, and applicability of STEM teaching in their communities, FIRST Global inspires students to learn the skills needed to make the breakthroughs that generations of their students experience. parents and grandparents would consider miracles impossibilities or just science fiction.
Being part of FIRST Global is more than just building robots. As participants learn to find solutions to the world's greatest challenges - water, energy, security, medicine, food and education - they also learn to work with each other, trust each other and become part of a truly community global.
Competition Results
“The equipment brought to the competition by the Angolan team presented several mechanical and logical problems that made it difficult to achieve the objectives, causing the Angolan team to drop 30 positions, compared to the last competition.”
Israel was the big winner, with two more European teams (Romania and Belarus) completing the top 3.
The Angolan team was also nominated for other 2 awards, although they did not win them:
- Judges Award - Non Technical
- Katherine Johnson Award (engineering documentation)
See more photos of the event
The Angolan team has gained international visibility due to the work it has done in bringing STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) in the communities in Angola, highlighting the participation in several technology fairs in Angola and the initiative to bring robotics to schools.
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