His Excellency Mr. Salah bin Ghanim Al-Ali, Minister of Sports and Youth, honored the winning schools in the first places in the 15th Robot Schools Championship, which concluded today with the organization of the Qatar Scientific Club of the Ministry of Sports and Youth, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, with the wide participation of male and female students from 160 public and private schools. in Lucille Hall.
The honoring ceremony was held in Lusail Hall, where Moaz Bin Jabal School won the first place for the line-following category (beginner) for the primary stage, and Talha bin Obaid Allah Preparatory School won the first place for the line-following category, beginner for the preparatory stage, and Al-Jamiliya Joint School for Boys for the line-following category, beginner for the secondary stage. As for the advanced line tracking category, it was won by Al-Khansa Primary School for Girls and Al-Shamal Secondary School for Boys, and in the category of robot wrestling (sumo) for beginners, Khalifa Secondary School for Boys won, and in the category of robot wrestling (sumo) for beginners for girls, Muaither Preparatory School won For girls, in the advanced category of robot wrestling (sumo) for the preparatory and primary stages, Al-Ahnaf Bin Qais School won. In the secondary stage in the same category, Qatar School of Science and Technology for Boys won. In the category of collecting balls for beginners for the preparatory and secondary stages, Moaz Bin Jabal School won. In the category of collecting balls, beginner for the secondary stage, Ibn Sina Secondary School won, while in the category of collecting balls advanced for the preparatory and primary stages, Osama bin Zaid School won, and in the category of collecting balls High school advanced balls won Amr Ibn Al-Aas School, and in the robotic arm category Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq School won. As for the football category, Al-Zubair Bin Al-Awam Primary School for Boys won first place, and in the drone category, a team to support the promising innovator won the Qatar Scientific Club. Qatar School of Science and Technology won first place in the innovation competition category. The honoring was attended by Ms. Maha Zayed Al-Ruwaili, Assistant Undersecretary for Educational Affairs at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education.
Engineer Rashid Al-Rahimi, Executive Director of the Qatar Scientific Club and Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the Championship, said that the cooperation between the Ministries of Sports and Youth and the Ministry of Education and Higher Education had the greatest impact on the success of this tournament, which made it a local tournament with international specifications and standards, appreciating the efforts of all the committees working in the tournament, volunteers and student teams. And their supervisors and referees, stressing that the championship, since its inception, has contributed to building the student’s active and self-confident scientific personality, through training programs and scientific and motivational charging for students who are the nation’s equipment and real equipment, stressing that the goal of the science club in organizing such competitions is to contribute to achieving the vision Qatar 2030, which is concerned with human development in the first place.
In a related context, the Qatar Science Club announced the addition of 3 new competitions to the Schools Robot Championship in its sixteenth edition next year, which are the Diving Robot Competition, the Climbing Robot Competition, and the Team Challenge Competition. These are international competitions, but they will be with Qatari standards and specifications. The club had added, in the fifteenth edition of the tournament, which concluded today, 3 new competitions, which are the robot arm challenge, the drone challenge, and the football challenge. Thus, the fifteenth edition of the Schools Robot Championship for the year 2023 was concluded, and it was an exceptional tournament that witnessed the largest number of participants, Where 1,600 students from various public and private schools participated in it.
