On July 8, the World Robot Olympiad, one of the most popular school competitions for robot construction, will be held in Armenia for the first time ever. The national stage of the competition is organized by Ayb Educational Foundation and has already gathered nine teams from different schools of Armenia.

The team that wins in the national stage of the World Robot Olympiad will leave for Delhi to participate in the international stage and represent Armenia in November 2016.

This year, the World Robot Olympiad is being held with the motto “Fight against Wastes”. The robots need to help children do cleaning, collect trash, throw it in garbage processing boxes and perform other similar tasks during the entire trip to school.

The teams will first compete in pre-selection stages and will continue the struggle in the final stage. The winning team will score a pass to the international stage of the World Robot Olympiad, writes armradio.am.

The World Robot Olympiad (WRO) is one of the several international school competitions organized by Ayb Educational Foundation. The aim of the competition is to engage schoolchildren in hands-on academic activities, enhance their logic and engineering skills, create preconditions for the development of schoolchildren’s creativity and provide them with the opportunity to expand their horizons by examining robots and robotics in school.

The World Robot Olympiad serves as a wonderful platform for mastering modern knowledge and skills in the 21^st century. It is a project that is connected to the spheres of science, technologies and education. The first international competition was held in 2004 and gathered 4,000 teams from 12 countries. Today, there are over 21,000 teams from 55 countries around the world.

The exclusive organizer of the national stage of the WRO is Ayb Educational Foundation, and the exclusive sponsor is Creative Educational Technologies (CET), which is the official supplier of LEGO® Education in Armenia.