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Vietnam claims junior division at int’l robotics contest

Ho Chi Minh City's Nguyen Binh Khiem Primary School has won the junior division at the International Robotics Competition in the Philippines.
Ho Chi Minh City's Nguyen Binh Khiem Primary School has won the juniordivision at the International Robotics Competition in the Philippines.

Lieu Ngoc Bao Thanh, Dao Thien Long and Dinh Pham BaThi beat two teams from SJK C Jalan Davidson School in Malaysia to takethe title for Vietnam on November 23.

In the seniordivision, three teams from SJK C Jalan Davidson swept away thecompetition to beat opponents from Vietnam, Malaysia and thePhilippines.

It's the first time that a primary school team from Vietnam has won the regional robot competition.

The country sent 24 teams from the first National Robothon competition in Da Nang last month.

The competition, titled "Smart City", drew 70 teams from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and the Philippines.

Each participating team had an hour to programme an automatic robot to compete for two minutes.

They had to monitor their robots to build a "smart city" for the future.

Robotics programmes have been introduced to over 3,000 primary schoolstudents in Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City since 2011.

Last year, Hanoi hosted the International Robotics Competition at the My Dinh Sports Complex.-VNA
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