WRO 2016 World Robot Olympiad : India Stem Foundation

Organization : India Stem Foundation and National Council of science and Museum
Olympiad Name : World Robot Olympiad (WRO) 2016
Applicable For : Students between the age group of 9 to 25 years
Applicable States/UTs : All India

Website : http://www.wroindia.org/

World Robot Olympiad :

The World Robot Olympiad is a competition for science, technology and education which brings together the young people (upto 25 years of age) all over the world to develop their creativity and problem solving skills through challenging and educational robotics competitions.

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India Stem Foundation WRO 2017 World Robot Olympiad : www.contest.net.in/21922.html

WRO 2016 is being organized by ISF and NCSM in collaboration to build scientific temperament and 21st century skills in students. The WRO would have teams from schools and universities across the globe

WRO 2016 Theme: Rap The Scrap!

Category: Regular Category
Elementary School up to 12 years old

Challenge: Clean Road to School
The challenge is to make a robot help a child clean on the child’s journey to school. The journey starts with making the bed and goes all the way to cleaning the school’s playground.

Regular Category: Junior High School 13-15 years old

Challenge: Waste Sorting
The challenge is to make a robot that collect certain kinds of recyclable waste from a home into recycling waste bins to be picked up by Municipal Service

Regular Category: Senior High School 16-19 years old

Challenge: Recycling Plant
The challenge is to make a robot that brings sorted waste stored in recycling containers to the corresponding recycling tank at a waste recycling plant

Category: WRO Football 10-19 years old
An exciting Robot soccer match that requires students to design and program two robots to compete against an opposing pair of robots by kicking an infra-red ball into opposing team’s goal

Category: Open Category
This year students are expected to come up with innovative solutions using robotics technology to reduce, manage and recycle waste!

Teams are required to think of a real world problem related to the theme and come out with an innovative solution for the same. The research and projects should be well supported with all kinds of displays/prototypes/models/videos and presented in their 2m by 2m booth provided at the regional championship

Registration:
All teams must register online and input their correct information. Participating students and coaches would get participation certificates based on the information provided in the online registration system. Registration Fee for regular category is Rs. 5,500- per team. For more information, please visit www.wroindia.org

Season Time Table:
Registration:
For Schools: 1st March to 15th July 2016
For Colleges: 1st March to 15th July 2016

Procurement of Hardware:
For Schools: 15th March to 30th July 2016
For Colleges: 1st April to 15th July 2016

Orientation & Training:
For Schools: 1st April to 15th August 2016
For Colleges: 15th April to 15th August 2016

Solution Build Time:
For Schools: 15th March to 31st August 2016
For Colleges: 1st June to 31st August 2016

Regional Competitions:
For Schools: 15th August to 15th September 2016
For Colleges: 15th August to 15th September 2016

National Championship:
29th and 30th September 2016

International Championship:
25th to 27th November 2016

*Dates are subject to change, for all updates and latest schedules, please visit www.wroindia.org