The four energetic children from Mumbai — Anav Agarwal (10), Kashan Damani (10), Aadit lakhani (11) and Mahir Shah (11) won the Sportsmanship Award, representing India at the 2016 VEX Worlds Robotic Competition, held in louisville, Kentucky, USA recently. The competition received recognition from the Guinness World Records for the largest robotics event ever and was partnered and sponsored by world renowned organisations such as NASA, Texas Instruments, the Northrop Grumman Foundation and others.
These children faced stiff competition from students in countries like USA, Canada, China, South Korea, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Ethiopia, Paraguay, Mexico and Puerto Rico. The children were inspired and mentored by Asha Sundarajan, who runs the Children’s Technology Workshop — the Mumbai franchise of the Toronto-based Children’s Technology Workshop that has trained over 4000 plus students and nine schools in Robotics.
The teams had to design and build a robot to play against other teams from around the world in a game-based engineering challenge. More than 1,100 robotics teams comprising of more than 15,000 students from 30 nations gathered at VEX Worlds to compete during three days of intense back-to-back matches for the chance to become world champions.