wroindia.org World Robot Olympiad WRO India Season 2024 Robotics Competition

Organisation : India STEM Foundation
Contest Name : World Robot Olympiad WRO India Season 2024 Robotics Competition
Applicable For : School Students
Last Date : 21st January 2024
Website : https://wroindia.org/season-2024/

What is World Robot Olympiad WRO India?

WRO or the World Robot Olympiad is one of the largest STEM and robotics competition for ages 8-19 dedicated to promoting STEM education world-wide in a fun and exciting way through robotics competitions. Global theme name for Season 2024 is Earth Allies. Season 2024 welcomes all students and coaches with their robotics solutions, parents and STEM & robotics enthusiasts, to a series of robotics events at various different stages of progression for different competition category to filter out the best teams and their robotics solutions at a virtual, regional, and a national level to present those solutions on a global level.

Related / Similar Contest : TechnoXian World Robotics Championship 2024 Innovation Challenge

Competition Categories of World Robot Olympiad WRO

Each competition category has its own unique age groups, rules and guidelines, and team compositions that makes the challenges fun, exciting, and super diverse. All teams should carefully read their chosen competition category’s general rules and guidelines.

RoboMission

A Challenge-based Competition
Age:
Elementary: 8-12
Junior: 11-15
Senior: 14-19
Team size: 2-3 students in the same age group lead by an adult coach. Teams can also choose to have a team manager and multiple sponsors to fund their projects, registration fees, and overall WRO journey.
Hardware: LEGO® based
Software: Free choice
Maximum size: Max. 25 x 25 x 25 cm
Characteristics: Build and program a robot that solves challenges on a field.

** Students must design, construct and program an autonomous robot that can solve specific challenges on a field. Because the field is set up randomly each round, the robot needs to be able to make its own decisions during the run.
** All parts of the robot, including controller, motors and sensors must be from LEGO® (MINDSTORMS® NXT or EV3, SPIKE PRIME or Robot Inventor).

Future Innovators

A project-based competition
Age: Elementary: 8-12
Junior: 11-15
Senior: 14-19
Team Size: 2-3 students in the same age group lead by an adult coach. Teams can also choose to have a team manager and multiple sponsors to fund their projects, registration fees, and overall WRO journey.
Hardware: Free choice*
Software: Free choice*
Maximum size: Must fit into the allocated space
Characteristics: Develop a robot project that helps solve real world problems.

** Students create their own innovative intelligent robotics solution relating to the theme of the season. There is no restriction on the use of materials. This includes free choice of controllers, motors, sensors, etc.
** Teams will present their project and their robot model to a group of judges on the competition day. The judges will not only grade the robot solution but will also look at aspects of innovation and entrepreneurship.
** For all specific rules and regulations refer to the General Rules for this category.

RoboSports

Age: 11-19
Team Size: 2-3 students in the same age group lead by an adult coach. Teams can also choose to have a team manager and multiple sponsors to fund their projects, registration fees, and overall WRO journey.
Hardware: LEGO® based
Software: Free choice
Maximum size: Max. 20 x 20 x 20 cm
Characteristics: Teams design 2 robots that compete with robots of another team.

** With the WRO® RoboSports category we introduce a fun and exciting game where two teams each have two autonomous robots on the field playing a sports game. The robot needs to be built from LEGO® materials, including controller, motors and sensors (MINDSTORMS® NXT or EV3, SPIKE PRIME or Robot Inventor). In addition, teams use a camera of their choice.

** The game changes every 3 or 4 years and the current game is Double Tennis. Each year little changes are introduced to motivate the students to keep on developing their robots.

Future Engineers

Age: 14-19
Team size: 2-3 students in the same age group lead by an adult coach. Teams can also choose to have a team manager and multiple sponsors to fund their projects, registration fees, and overall WRO journey.
Hardware: Free choice
Software: Free choice
Maximum size: Max. 30 x 20 x 30cm
Characteristics: Advanced robotics following current research trends.

** With WRO® Future Engineers we created an exciting category for older students. With this new format, we want to bring the current research challenge into schools and teach students an engineering workflow by solving real-world-problems. Teams can use any robot, controller and materials that are in line with the regulations.

**The game changes every 3 or 4 years and the current game is all about autonomous driving. The challenge is to build a robot with a steering drive that can drive around a track autonomously. Each year little changes are introduced to motivate the students to keep on developing their robots.

How to Participate in the World Robot Olympiad WRO India?

1. Download the Free School Team Registration Template for Guidance. Click here to download
2. Use your School Letter Head and the content from the template and fill in the details requested within the square brackets.
3. Stamped and sign the letter by the School Principal/Director.
4. Send the completed application to wro@indiastemfoundation.org
5. Receive the coupon after the verification details email within 3 working days.
6. Apply coupon on the WRO Registration Portal and complete the process to get your Team Number.

Participate In WRO India For Free :
** Teams of 2-3 Students in the same age group led by an adult coach can choose to participate in any one of the four WRO® Competition categories namely RoboMission, Future Innovators, RoboSports, and Future Engineers, depending on the interests, knowledge and skills, and strengths of the students and coach on the team.

** This year, school teams can participate for free. They will be exempt from paying the registration fees for one team in the World Robot Olympiad. This exemption is valid for the future innovators category only.

** A team shall be considered as a school team if all the students and their mentor are from the same school.

Progression of World Robot Olympiad WRO

There are different starting levels, events, and progressions for each competition category. Future Innovators competition category starts at virtual championship (Level 1), RoboMission at regional championship (Level 2), and RoboSports and Future Engineers directly enter the national championship (Level 3).

Virtual Championship (L1) :
Judges carefully evaluate the teams’ projects submitted in the Virtual Championship (Level 1) as per the evaluation rubrics. The top 400 teams of the Future Innovators Category will progress to the Regional Championship (Level 2) hosted in different cities in India.

Regional Championship (L2) :
The top 100 teams, each in the Future Innovators and RoboMission competition category from all the regional events, will progress to the National championship.

National Championship (L3) :
National Championship winners in each competition category will represent India by progressing to the International championship (Final Level).

Awards of World Robot Olympiad WRO India

At All Championships, virtual, regional, and national, teams will receive 1st, 2nd, and 3rd position awards (Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medals for all the students and their coach).

Certificates :
% of Total Points Certificate
< 25% Participation
25-50% Bronze Badge
50-75% Silver Badge
> 75% Gold Badge

Additional Awards :
In National Championship Only
Age Group Award
Elementary – Team Spirit Award
Junior – Technical Solution Award
Senior – Start-Up Idea Award

Timeline of World Robot Olympiad WRO India

Registration Opens | 1 Nov 2023
Virtual Championship Event – 1 Registration Closes | 21 Jan 2024
Virtual Event-1 Project Submission 1 – 5 Feb 2024
Virtual Event-1 Judging 6 – 21 Feb 2024
Virtual Event-1 Result Declaration 22 Feb 2024
Virtual Championship Event-2 Registration Closes 6 May 2024
Virtual Event-2 Project Submission 7 – 13 May 2024
Virtual Event-2 Judging 14 – 29 May 2024
Virtual Event-2 Result Declaration 30 May 2024
Regional Championship Registration Closes 11 June 2024
In-person Regional Events in 12 Cities 21 June – 8 Aug 2024
Regional championship Result Declaration 9 Aug 2024
National Championship Registration Closes 18 Aug 2024
National Championship Event 28 – 30 Aug 2024
International Championship Event – Turkey ~ Nov 2024