“A Year of Robotics 2024” Programme is launched on July 12 (Photo: Organising Board) Within the framework of the programme, the organising board, comprising the STEAM for Vietnam Foundation, the American Centre and the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, said an intensive training programme will be held for teachers across the nation.
Other activities include the launch of an online library of teaching materials for teachers, and STEAMese Festival slated for August. Meanwhile, a robotics training course for high school students will be opened in autumn.
At the same time, the championship, a playground for all students who love robotics that will be organised to the Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation’s standards, will receive registrations from July and officially open in September. The competition is to select 40 teams for the world largest robotics competition – the VEX Robotics World Championship 2024.
An overview of the press conference to launch the “A Year of Robotics 2024” Programme and Vietnam VEX Robotics National Championship 2024 (Photo: daibieunhandan.vn) The STEAM for Vietnam Foundation will build a library to provide training documents from VEX Robotics and organise a series of conferences to connect robotics experts and participating teams, helping the teams enhance their capacity. It will also give instructions to schools to organise friendly competitions to REC Foundation’s standards.
Last year's edition of the programme provided free robotics training to more than 2,000 students, 500 teachers from 150 schools nationwide. Meanwhile, the VEX IQ Championship 2023 drew more than 150 teams from 30 cities and provinces nationwide.
In May 2023, Vietnam sent 19 robotics teams to the VEX Robotics World Championship 2023 in Texas, the US, ranking fifth in the number of teams, and bringing home five prizes./.
VNA
