05-07-16 World Robot Olympiad in India with 16 teams of Greek students
Over 350 students gathered at Athens’ private Moraitis School on 2 July with their robots in an effort to devise robotic waste management solutions for reducing, managing and recycling waste.
In this year’s Eighth Pan-Hellenic Competition, 16 teams of students with their teachers, and with backing from their parents, participated in the educational robotics event and qualified to represent Greece at the 2016 World Robot Olympiad.
At the Athens gathering, four professors who have made major contributions to educational robotics over the years were honoured for their service: Robert King (Professor Emeritus at the University of Patras), Antonis Tze (Professor of electrical engineering and computer technology at Patras University) Evangelos Papadopoulos (School of Mechanical Engineering at Athens Polytechnic), and Christos Panagiotakopoulos (Faculty of Primary Education, University of Patras.
The theme of this year’s World Robot Olympiad (WRO), to be held in late November in New Delhi, India, is “Rap the Scrap”. The title refers to the search for ways to reduce, manage and recycle waste.
According to the WRO site (http://www.wroindia.org), over 6 billion people live on planet Earth today, generating an estimated 1.9 billion tons of domestic, industrial, medical, electronic, radioactive, toxic and hazardous waste every year. Experts believe that the waste generated will double by 2025. That is in just 10 years from now!
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