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Vietnamese students shine at int’l robotics competition

A group of four Vietnamese students brought home a bronze medal for their impressive robotic design at the “2018 FIRST Global Challenge” international robotics competition in Mexico from August 15-18.
Vietnamese students shine at int’l robotics competition ảnh 1Four Vietnamese students brought home a bronze medal at the “2018 FIRST Global Challenge” international robotics competition.(Photo: VNA)

Mexico City (VNA) – A group of four Vietnamese students brought homea bronze medal for their impressive robotic design at the “2018 FIRST GlobalChallenge” international robotics competition in Mexico from August 15-18.

Besides the medal, the Vietnamese team attained remarkable achievement when itranked 12th out of 165 teams joining in the event.

Within three completion days, the FPT high-school students gained 6,350 pointsafter eight games in the qualifying round with seven wins. The Vietnamesejuniors, who were teamed up with students from Estonia and Eritrea in theplayoff, lost to those from the UK, Georgia and Qatar.

Head of the Vietnamese delegation Le Ngoc Tuan lauded the Vietnamese students’efforts to improve their ranking, which was at 58th place out of 175teams at the previous event organised in the US.

FIRST Global Challenge is a non-profit organisation established in 2009 whichaims to inspire science and technology leadership and innovation in youngpeople from all nations in order to increase understanding.

It invites each country to send a team to compete in the robotics Olympics,which takes place in a different nation each year. Themed around the 14 grandchallenges of Engineering identified by National Academies of Engineering, eachyear a different Grand Challenge takes centre stage in an effort to fosterunderstanding and cooperation among the youth of the world as they use theirabilities to solve the world’s problem.

The theme for 2018 is “Energy Impact”.-VNA
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