The schoolchildren will showcase their creative talent in robotics. The regional championship of World Robotic Olympiad (WRO) India 2017 will be held in Bhopal on August 12 and 13.
Students from the city schools will be participating in the regional round of WRO 2017. It will be held at Gyan Gana Academy, Bhopal. It is to be noted that WRO India is one of the largest Robotics competition in India.
It is held for students between the age group of 9 to 25 years, held since 2006. It is a not-for-profit competition jointly organised by India Stem Foundation and National Council of science and Museum.
Notably, WRO is an event for science, technology and education which brings together young people all over the world to develop their creativity and problem solving skills through challenging and educational robotics competitions.
Teams of two or three students participate in this competition. Participating teams need to create, design and build a robot model that is capable to perform a challenge. Each year a new theme and challenge are set. The competition starts from preliminary rounds to the final judging.
The championship is organised with a motive to provide students an opportunity to expand their horizons through exploration of robots and robotic systems in the school. Introduce the concept of modern science into school's educational activities in science and technology.
It also provide an opportunity to promote creative thinking, improve communications and cooperation skills strengthen the ability to acquire new knowledge highly relevant towards progressive education and to encourage youth to be future scientists, engineers and inventors.