Vietnamese student team won many high prizes at the world's number one robot competition

Hong Bang 2 Team

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After more than 8 months of preparation, 2 qualifying rounds and 1 national final round, 14 teams of Vietnamese students aged 8-16 competed with 451 best representative teams from 81 countries and territories at the World Robot Olympiad in Panama and achieved excellent results.

Among them, the Hong Bang 2 and Hong Bang 1 teams from Hong Bang Secondary School (District 5, Ho Chi Minh City) participated for the first time in the RoboSports group - a competition group inspired by tennis, considered one of the most difficult groups of the competition.

Hong Bang 2 won consecutively in the qualifying round and only stopped at the quarter-finals, finishing 6th. Hong Bang 1 stopped at the quarter-finals against the world champion team Taiwan and finished 7th overall.

For the robot task competition tables, in the Elementary table (ages 8-12), team HKN-B1-01 (Huynh Khuong Ninh Secondary School, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City) ranked 8th in the world.

In the Junior category (ages 11-15), Hong Bang 4 team (Hong Bang Secondary School) ranked 9th in the world and won the silver medal in the competition, only behind the STEM robot powerhouses such as Japan and Germany.

Vietnamese students at the international robot tournament in Panama

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The Senior competition is quite challenging and competitive for contestants aged 14-19 with many strong teams such as India, Switzerland, Japan, Greece, Taiwan.

Both Vietnamese representatives, Viet Robot B3-02 (Vietrobot center) and We are from Vietnam (Kid Engineer center) also won the silver medal in the Senior category.

The World Robot Olympiad is currently the world's largest STEM robotics competition, attracting 25,000 contestants from around the world to compete annually to become the best representatives of their country at the world finals held in rotating member territories. This year the competition was held in Panama.

The competition focuses on developing creative thinking, problem solving and 21st century skills of students such as teamwork, critical thinking in addition to applying hardware knowledge of science , engineering, technology, and mathematics to solve practical problems given by the Organizing Committee every year. This year's competition theme is Connecting the world - students must design and program robots to help connect the world in terms of trade, technology, and people.

Female students in the group

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In Vietnam, the 2023 competition is part of the ROBOTACON tournament series organized by the Danish Embassy in coordination with partners.

The remaining Vietnamese teams such as Wellspring SG 01, Wellspring SG 05; Hong Bang 5, Viet Robot B2-01, WS.AIDs, WS_DTMKK, Viet Robot B4-02, Porterror.WS from Wellspring Saigon, Wellspring Hanoi , Hong Bang Ho Chi Minh City, Vietrobot center and Kid Engineer won the bronze medal.

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