Within the framework of the program, the organizing board, comprising the STEAM for Vietnam Foundation, the American Center and the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, said an intensive training program will be held for teachers across the nation.
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“A Year of Robotics 2024” Program is launched on July 12. (Photo: Organizing Board) |
Other activities include the launch of an online library of teaching materials for teachers, and STEAMese Festival slated for August. Meanwhile, a robotics training course for high school students will be opened in autumn.
At the same time, the championship, a playground for all students who love robotics that will be organized to the Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation’s standards, will receive registrations from July and officially open in September. The competition is to select 40 teams for the world largest robotics competition – the VEX Robotics World Championship 2024.
The organizing board hopes to draw more than 300 teams of students from primary and secondary schools, and 50 others from high schools. They will compete in various contents of Teamwork Challenge, Driving Skills Challenge, and Programming Skills Challenge.
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An overview of the press conference to launch the “A Year of Robotics 2024” Program and Vietnam VEX Robotics National Championship 2024 (Photo: daibieunhandan.vn) |
The STEAM for Vietnam Foundation will build a library to provide training documents from VEX Robotics and organize a series of conferences to connect robotics experts and participating teams, helping the teams enhance their capacity. It will also give instructions to schools to organize friendly competitions to REC Foundation’s standards.
Last year's edition of the program provided free robotics training to more than 2,000 students, 500 teachers from 150 schools nationwide. Meanwhile, the VEX IQ Championship 2023 drew more than 150 teams from 30 cities and provinces nationwide.
In May 2023, Vietnam sent 19 robotics teams to the VEX Robotics World Championship 2023 in Texas, the U.S., ranking fifth in the number of teams, and bringing home five prizes.
Source: VNA