Taiwanese students won several awards at this year’s VEX Robotics World Championship, which concluded on Thursday in St. Louis, Missouri, including the Innovate Award, Create Award and Design Award.
The global competition, held from April 21 to April 30, has been recognized multiple times by Guinness World Records as the world’s largest robotics competition.
Taiwan sent 126 students across 17 teams to the championship, including nine high school teams, five middle school teams and three elementary school teams.
Photo courtesy of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Denver via CNA
V5RC, the themed game at the VEX championship, requires student teams in different divisions to design, build and program their own robots to compete in head-to-head matches.
According to the game manual, each match consists of two alliances, with two robots on each side working to outscore their opponents by placing cubes into scoring zones.
While the rules allow robots to block or interfere with opponents’ movement, intentional contact that causes damage is prohibited, according to the manual.
Teams could compete in the Robot Skills Challenge, which consists of 60-second matches. The challenge includes Driving Skills Matches, in which students control the robot, and Autonomous Coding Skills Matches, in which the robot operates independently using its programming.
In the high school division, Taiwan’s Joinus team from Curious X-Lab won the Design Award in the Research Division.
The lab said in a social media post that judges were impressed by the team’s engineering log, which clearly documented its “robot iterations and strategic development.”
The team also placed seventh in the Robot Skills Challenge.
Another high school team, Unicorn Puncher from Dr. Player Robotic Lab Taichung, received the Create Award in the Spirit Division.
In the middle school division, Taiwan’s Happy Hippo team from Fancy Robotics International finished as runner-up in the Math Division, also winning the division’s Innovate Award.
Fancy Robotics International said in a social media post that the achievement reflected not only the team’s engineering ability but its innovation as well.
Of the elementary school teams, Chingshin Academy won third place in the Teamwork Challenge in the Science Division.
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