Line tracking robot contest application is now available in Armenia

YEREVAN, April 16. /ARKA/. Application for participating in Line tracking robot contest, organized within  Armrobotics Open Championship, is now open and available at digitec.am/armrobotics.php?id=186 for registering till May 4, Union of IT Enterprises (UITE) reported ARKA on Monday.

Applicants, eligible for the contest, must be up to 20 years old.
“It is important that pupils as well as freshman and sophomore students  participate in the contest. Moreover, contests are considered as the best way for young people to unite, demonstrate and  assess their own abilities,” UITE Executive Director Karen Vardanyan said.  

The goal for the contest participants is to project and construct the robot that will be able to pass labyrinths, find all the exits and return back by the shortest  way. The labyrinth is designed as a white surface with black lines and squares on it, four exits, one of which will be chosen by  the participants as a start point for the robot.
The event is organized by UITE. The General Sponsor is VivaCell-MTS company, technical support is provided by Artin-Varouzhan company. The assistance is shown by Defense Ministry of Armenia and Microsoft Innovation Center.
ArmRobotics  First  Championship was held in Armenia in 2008. It gathered 11 teams (each containing 4 students and one advisor) from Armenia, Karabakh and Iran.

The Championship includes 5 different contests for various age groups: “Computer simulation” (for students), Line Tracking (for students), “Contest of robots that identify subjects through color and smell” (no age restriction), “Marble crossing” (for schoolchildren) and “Robot-Sapper” (no age restriction). –0—