Help sponsor How to get in – the future of the future of touch Go to wro2012.org to find out more about starts here robotics! this year’s event in . • Support WRO in making robotics available to as many children as possible around the world • Promote your company to an international educational and governmental audience • Involve your employees as mentors or coaches for local teams To find out more about • Build awareness about your company the organisation among some of the world’s best and behind the annual ­brightest technical students WRO competition or to find out if your country WRO welcomes select commercial companies is WRO affiliated visit and charitable foundations at national and wroboto.org international level – either as a direct sponsor of WRO or as a sponsor of a host country.

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WRO sponsors

©2012 World Robot Olympiad Association Ltd. , the LEGO logo, MINDSTORMS and the MINDSTORMS logo are trademarks of the/sont des marques de commerce de/son marcas registradas de LEGO Group. ©2012 The LEGO Group. LabVIEW, National Instruments, NI and ni.com are trademarks of National Instruments. Hitechnic is a registered trademark of Dataport Systems, Inc. / 061338. For your students About WRO

Every year nearly 15,000 student teams across The World Robot Olympiad works to promote the world take part in an internationally recognised 3 Age Groups ­science, technology and education among young robotics challenge tournament, known as the World WRO Regular and Open categories are divided people everywhere. Our goal is to help develop the Robot Olympiad. into three age groups: future scientists, engineers and inventors that our • Elementary School – up to 12 years world needs, if we are to successfully manage the The 2012 World Robot Olympiad will be held in • Junior High School – 12 to 15 years many challenges our planet faces. Kuala Lumpur, , in November – and your • High School – 15 to 19 years school could be there! The World Robot Olympiad is a non-profit organisation

founded in 2004. National Organisers are responsible Taking part in WRO delivers many benefits, including­ for organising regional and national tournaments increased student interest and competencies in 3 Categories in their respective countries, and the best teams science, technology, engineering and maths. from each member country qualify for the WRO has three different competition categories: Plus, taking part in WRO provides an excellent international WRO final. A new country hosts • Regular – a challenged based competition opportunity to strengthen your school’s academic the annual international WRO every November. where robots are programmed to complete a profile to the outside world. series of tasks. WRO currently has 36 member countries, with • Open – students are required to create their over 15,000 participating teams worldwide. own robotic solutions based on a specific theme. • WRO GEN II Football – an action-packed robot football competition. Teams of two robots play head-to-head based on the GEN II robot soccer rules.

All WRO competition categories use the LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ platform.

Get organised in your country:

For your school to take part your country needs to If the answer is yes, then contact your National be either a: Organiser to register your team(s).

• WRO Member Country If you country is not affiliated to WRO you could • WRO Country Cluster become a WRO National Organiser. If you have • WRO Guest Country proven experience with educational robotics and close ties to your regional or national education Go to www.wroboto.org and use the WRO World authority then we would very much like to hear Map to see if your country is affiliated to WRO. from you!

Find out more at wroboto.org/membership