We Are Hosting the World Robotics Olympiad for Young Scientists!

Science and technology are not normally careers of choice among our youth, so it's good that the World Robotics Olympiad will be held here this coming weekend.  This should give an opportunity to many of our youth to see where their peers are already in the field of robotics.  Not that we're pushovers though. In the 2009 World Robot Olympiad in Scandinavia, the Philippine teams from First Asia Institute of Technology and Humanities in Tanauan City, Batangas and Grace Christian High School in Quezon City won gold medals. The country also won two silvers and a bronze.

This year, schools are invited to enter a team of three students to build a robot model that behaves like athlete.  Ester Ogena, director of the Science Education Institute, an attached agency of the Science department, said the WRO is an effective strategy to enhance the interest of the youth in science and technology.  "We are optimistic that through the WRO, we would be able to encourage the youth to become future scientists, inventors and engineers. Robotics competitions provide the youth the opportunity to grasp and apply electronics and information technology” Ogena said.