WRO 2014 in Sochi,

WRO 2014 will take place in the Olympic city of Sochi on 21-23 November 2014.

Sochi hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics - and this year will be the first time that a WRO international final is hosted in an Olympic city in an Olympic year!

About WRO

The World Robot Olympiad is an event for science, technology and education which brings together the young people all over the world to develop their creativity and problem solving skills through challenging and educational competitions.

Schools are invited to enter a team of three students to participate in this competition.

Participating teams need to create, design and build a robot models that look s or behave like a human athlete. The competition starts from preliminary to the final judging.

Objectives

• Provide students an opportunity to expand their horizons through exploration of

robots and robotic systems in the school.

• Introduce the concept of modern science into school's educational activities in

science and technology.

• Provide an opportunity to promote creative thinking, improve communications

and cooperation skills strengthen the ability to acquire new knowledge highly

relevant towards progressive education.

• Bring together young people all over the world to develop creativity and problem

solving skills through challenging and educational robot competition.

• To widen the youth's view in the application of science & technology, improve

their learning efficiency & encourage our youth to be future scientists, engineers

and inventors Competitions in WRO

World Robot Olympiad organizes robotics competitions in three different competition categories:

The Regular category was the first competition introduced by WRO. It is a challenge based competition in which teams will build robots that are designed to solve a given challenge set on a table.

Later, the Open Category competition was introduced. The Open category is a theme based competition in which teams use their creativity and problem solving skills in constructing smart robotic solutions that complement the theme of the competition.

In 2010, WRO introduced WRO GEN II Football for the first time and it is now an official competition in WRO. Here teams of two robots play a game of football (soccer) on a playing field.

Open Category

The Open Category is a theme based competition. Here students must construct and program installations that represent the theme of the competition.

Students are encouraged to present their projects by producing presentations that explain their project.

To encourage fair competition the Open Category is also divided into three age categories; Elementary, Junior High and High School.

WRO 2014 Winners (source: http://wro2014.org) List of World Robot Olympiad Russia 2014 Winners

Regular Category

Elementary Age group Place Team name Country Team ID 1 NH - IICS RGE 17 2 Pearl of the Orient RGE 31 3 Yastreb Russia RGE 65 4 Argo Russia RGE 58 Republic of 5 Universe Explorer RGE 48 (Chinese ) 6 Team WIN RGE 19 7 TSURUGI 1 Japan RGE 18 8 YTPS TEAM 5 RGE 45

Junior High age group Place Team name Country Team ID 1 SAKTI PEGASUS Malaysia RGJ 36 2 Kun Na Tam RGJ 61 2 YEN-KERN-HED Thailand RGJ 62 Republic of China 3 Happy Horse RGJ 59 () 4 Newton Russia RGJ 73 Republic of China 5 C.H.H RGJ 57 (Chinese Taipei) 6 Beat box Korea RGJ 33 7 Dendy Russia RGJ 71

Senior High age group Place Team name Country Team ID 1 AUD-ARD Thailand RGS53 2 Chakkham 4 Thailand RGS55 Republic of China 3 Future Engineering RGS50 (Chinese Taipei) 4 KID A RAI YOO Thailand RGS54 5 Ekarobot Russia RGS471 6 Zeus Russia RGS52 7 Stalker Russia RGS51 8 Freestyle Russia RGS481 Open Category

Elementary Age group PlaceTeam name Country 1 The Innovative Explorers Malaysia 2 Unobtainium Russia 3 RoboCruisers E USA 4 STArBOT Malaysia 5 DYCI Junior Primes 6 oman1 7 Ritsumeikan+R MYS Japan 8 Techknowledge - The Stars

Junior High age group PlaceTeam name Country 1 Astro Boys Japan 2 Techknowledge - The Lego Stars India 3 Kosmo_Bot 4 Space Invaders Delta 3 5 DYCI Primes Philippines 6 Team Robotists Malaysia 7 Alien Life Russia 8 WEMBRO Korea

Senior High age group PlaceTeam name Country Ultimate Upon great fire the 1 book-heroic one 2 The Strong Sign Russia 3 devil's dozen Russia 4 LEGOCRAFT 5 RoboCruisers S USA 6 EXCELSIOR Japan 7 MINDERS Möp - Ihre 8 Germany Schwachstrommechaniker

GEN II Football category PlaceTeam name Country 1 SG-1 Thailand 2 HYPNOTIC Thailand 3 Glock Russia 4 Wings of Storm Chinese Taipei 5-8 STTJ Bees Malaysia 5-8 SG-Radient Thailand 5-8 Swag Pundits India Republic of China 5-8 Magic (Chinese Taipei)

College Regular Category PlaceTeam name Country Team ID

Republic of China 1 N.M.C. COL17 (Chinese Taipei) 2 Beijing Normal University China COL03 3 DYCI Primes 3.0 Philippines COL14 Republic of China 4 G.T.R. COL18 (Chinese Taipei) 5 LTU USA COL22 6 PKRU – No – Bat – Rider Robot Thailand COL20 7 WAFL Costa Rica COL04 7 R P M Korea COL09

Special Awards. Open Category

Elementary Age group

STArBOT (Malaysia) - Creative Award

DYCI Junior Primes (Philippines) - Technical Award

Techknowledge - SPV SAT Servers (India) - Judge Award

Junior High age group

DYCI Primes (Philippines) - Creative Award

Alien Life (Russia) - Technical Award

WEMBRO (Korea) - Judge Award

Senior High age group

LEGOCRAFT (Germany) - Creative Award

RoboCruisers S (USA) - Technical Award

EXCELSIOR (Japan) - Judge Award