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WRO Mission World Robot Olympiad brings together young people all over the world to develop their creativity and problem solving skills through challenging and educational robotics competitions Kiev Abu Dhabi Moscow WRO organization (1) WRO is registered in Singapore. Office supported by Science Center Singapore. The highest WRO authority is the WRO Advisory Council. The WRO Board of Trustees is appointed by the AC and is responsible for all business relating matters A WRO Secretary General is in charge of worldwide operations and reports to Board. The AC and Board has representatives from China, Denmark, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and UAE. WRO organization (2) National Organizers are responsible for implementing the WRO program in their individual countries All WRO member countries are eligible to send teams to the international WRO final – numbers depend on total number of teams in the country WRO National Organizers can be private companies, nonprofit organizations, universities or even an office in the MOE – or a combination of the above. Impact of WRO on the participants Apply real-world math and science concepts to real challenges Design, build, test and program robots using graphical programming and traditional software Improve critical thinking, team-building and presentation skills Understand and appreciate cultural differences WRO 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Australia 300 380 301 Bahrain 60 54 112 Bolivia 20 40 65 98 75 WRO in Brunei 51 50 China 1500 1100 1700 650 1050 1100 1041 1100 1320 1330 Chinese Taipei/Taiwan 250 404 497 815 1076 1368 1567 1680 1729 1651 numbers Costa Rica 25 0 24 81 125 Cyprus 12 Denmark 11 4 21 40 36 25 60 35 Egypt 10 50 40 0 28 75 58 Germany 20 33 31 39 111 Ghana 88 364 Greece 40 81 80 75 80 Hong Kong 100 160 130 130 118 100 257 150 131 115 India 20 0 23 80 300 650 663 700 955 800 Indonesia 20 40 70 132 200 500 621 612 1018 1020 Iran 0 0 15 50 15 0 35 100 196 240 Japan 356 421 374 400 606 705 729 720 830 900 Korea 705 697 670 621 802 925 852 600 672 627 Kuwait 42 42 n/a Lebanon 20 20 30 23 n/a Malaysia 100 302 1155 2900 3000 3000 2578 2900 3170 3000 Mexico 60 135 Mongolia (Guest) 1 0 Nigeria 20 31 75 Peru 75 70 77 72 106 Phillippines 50 60 70 104 120 120 117 289 605 610 Romania 83 Russia 17 29 36 120 800 800 1056 2000 2490 3012 Saudi Arabia 36 68 0 48 48 South Africa 40 31 106 144 Singapore 850 803 783 612 602 639 602 722 900 792 Spain 46 Countries in red State of Qatar 15 30 23 0 100 112 120 have hosted the State of Oman 20 60 54 101 international WRO Switzerland 9 final. Syria 22 12 n/a Thailand 450 700 500 1050 1140 1428 1425 1500 1075 1627 ”n/a” means that Ukraine 0 31 62 71 152 117 we have not UAE 12 30 30 31 126 602 339 414 collected team Vietnam 28 numbers from Yemen 25 these countries. Total 4418 4716 6046 7748 10043 11788 12071 14790 17143 18450 Growth Teams worldwide 20000 18000 16000 14000 12000 10000 8000 6000 4000 2000 0 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 WRO on a map 3 competition categories Open Category - a theme based competition in which students design robotics solutions Regular Category - a challenge based competition on a table. Students design and program robots to complete specific tasks WRO GEN II Football - teams of two autonomous robots play head to head …and the College Category (pilot) for students aged 17-21. Similar to Regular Category – only very difficult and robots are constructed from metal kits. Examples of Open Category Robots promote tourism (guard) Robots for live improvement (flying mine sweeper) Examples of Regular Category (2013) Examples of Regular Category (2013) Examples of Regular Category (2013) …and WRO GEN II Football! Age Groups for Regular and Open Elementary 8 ~ 12 years old in 2014 Junior 13 ~ 15 years old in 2014 Senior 16 ~ 19 years old in 2014 15 The WRO Season Host Country publishes theme and challenges in January on the event website (www.wro2012.org, www.wro2013.org, www.wro2014.org etc.) National Organizers schedule national competitions – most in Q2 and Q3 Deadline for registration for international final is in October – four weeks ahead of the international final International final in November (2nd or 3rd weekend) WRO websites www.wroboto.org – official World Robot Olympiad Association Ltd. website www.wro2014.org – website for WRO 2014 in Sotchi, Russa USA WRO-USA National Organizer • Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan • Robofest office • CJ Chung, Ph.D. and Robofest staff • Email: [email protected] Comparison Table FLL Robofest WRO Game FLL Table 6ft plastic folding Same as FLL table Playing Field table Game Robot Lego products Any Lego products kit only only Game Pre-construction Pre-construction Pre-construction construction allowed allowed not allowed (*) Game N/A Unknown factors & “Surprise” rules unknowns tasks Robot N/A Any robot kits & Any material as Exhibition materials can be long as one Lego used. No specific controller is theme used. Specific theme (*) To shorten the event duration, however, we will allow some pre-construction in the US in 2014. Supported Categories in the US in 2014 • RE: Regular Elementary (8 ~ 12 years old in 2014) • OE: Open Elementary (8 ~ 12 years old in 2014) • OJ: Open Junior High (13 ~ 15 years old in 2014) • OS: Open Senior - High School (16 ~ 19 years old in 2014) WRO-USA 2014 Local Tournaments (as of June 23, http://wroboto.us/index.php/team-registration) City / State Date Venue Categories Dearborn / MI July 26- Maker Faire Detroit at The Henry OE, OJ, OS 27 Ford Portland / OR Aug 9 Stoller Middle School RE, OE, OJ, OS Foster / CA Aug 16 Foster City Library RE, OE Sugarland / TX Aug 16 Techno Chaos RE, OE, OJ, OS Fresh Aug 23 RoboMindTech RE, RJ, RS, OS Meadows / NY Seattle / WA Sep 4 Coe Elementary School RE, OE Aurora / IL Sep 6 SciTech Hands On Museum RE Bloomfield Sep 6 Cranbrook Institute of Science RE Hills, MI How to select teams for Sochi • 5~10% top teams from USA National final at LTU on Sep Sochi 27, 2014 • Teams must decide within 7 5 ~ 10% days USA National Final • Waiting list in case of decline ~ 50% Local State Tournaments 23 WRO-USA website (1/2) http://wROBOTo.us 24 WRO-USA website (2/2) wROBOTo.us 25.