The youngest students of the ETSII overcome the challenge of Artificial Intelligence

Two first-year students of the Computer Engineering degree course win the Artificial Intelligence hackathon held last Friday on the Móstoles campus. The 42 participants had to program the artificial intelligence of a tank. The hackathon was organized by the RedRadix company.

Writing/Raúl García Hémonnet

The first challenge was to program the artificial intelligence to beat the "rabbit" robot programmed by the company, in less than a minute. Subsequently, the tanks of the teams that made the cut competed to find out who was the final winner.

The winning team was 'Galaxy Moon'. The two members of the winning team, Juan Antonio Vinaches Vizcaíno and Sonia Casero Pérez, first-year students of the Computer Engineering Degree at the ETSII on the Móstoles campus, won a Google Home as a prize for the developed algorithm.

For Sonia Casero, winning was “a great surprise. I had come to learn as much as possible and in the end we won. We are very happy".

Casero points out that the secret of the team has been "doing a lot of tests". In the game, he adds “we had to kill a tank, so we tried different things (angles, distances), saw our failures and adjusted the strategy”.

Sonia Casero has been at URJC for a few months, and considers that, although the degree "is hard, I'm doing what I like, so I'm fine". She also remembers the programming teacher from her first semester, "he is someone she likes to teach, and it shows."

Both students had no previous experience in JavaScript programming, although they did have experience in other programming languages. In addition, several participants have obtained programming courses from Redradix training valued at €600.