Promote scientific vocation through a robotics tournament

Albert Rose

Program a robot to go around a circuit avoiding obstacles. This is the objective that the participants of the new edition of the Robotic Games will have to meet, an online competition on programming aimed at secondary and high school students.

The tournament, organized by the platform Kibotics in collaboration with the URJC through the group Robotics Lab, has as its main objective the dissemination of robotics and the promotion of scientific and technical vocations among young people through an approach to the world of programming.

The participants will have to program a simulated robot in the Scratch programming language to go around the circuit avoiding obstacles. To do this, they will use the infrared sensor to follow the line and the ultrasonic sensor to avoid objects. In addition, the participant who is in first position will win a drone Tello.  

Professor José María Cañas, one of the organizers of the event, highlights the benefits of holding tournaments of this type: “Mainly, it introduces pre-university students to technological issues in a very attractive way, with 'gamification' and encourages scientific-technical vocations ", Explain.

From the point of view of the university, the Robotic Games are a good opportunity to "create a quarry", since "the URJC has several technological degrees related to this field", adds Professor Cañas.

The registration period to participate in the 2022 Robotic Games is open until June 22. The championship will be held on June 26 and the exercise can be carried out until 23:59 p.m. on June 22. The initiative, which forms part of the program of activities of the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (UCC+I), dependent on the Vice President for Research, has the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT)-Ministry of Science and Innovation. More information and registration at websites by Kibotics