Manama: AMA International School (AMAIS) a K-12 American curriculum school embedded in the local community but with an international outlook with around 2,000 students, announced the opening of registration for the upcoming World Robotics Olympiad (WRO) 2021 which it will be hosting virtually from 25 to 27 May 2021.
The World Robot Olympiad Association organizes WRO giving young people all the opportunity to develop their creativity and problem solving skills in a fun and engaging way. Each season has a new theme and the challenges are tailored to the age of the participants. WRO tournaments are organized in over 85 countries worldwide and AMAIS, being a partner of the Association, is hosting the 2021 tournament in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Bahrain is considered one of the nine countries organizing this tournament in the Middle East alongside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman, Qatar, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine.
“This is one of the most important events for our school. This year’s theme focuses on “The Future of Energy”, where the teams will be looking at the challenges that come with using more energy from renewable sources. At AMAIS, we have a great team looking after the technical aspects of this competition to ensure the quality and accurate delivery of the event’s main objective, which is to promote creative thinking, cooperation and communication between the participants. We would like to encourage all the schools across the Kingdom to register for this competition as it is open for elementary, middle and high school,” Bushra Mandeel, Director of Academics at AMAIS, said.
“Our aim at WRO is to increase the number of participating international teams and increase engagement with major universities, institutions, corporations and foundations, which will allow us to raise the visibility and supporting the growth of WRO globally. We are always happy to collaborate with AMAIS, who are WRO’s our ambassadors in the Kingdom of Bahrain, due to their academic calibre and successful execution of our programmes,” Karen Bebelaar, WRO Program Manager at World Robot Olympiad Association, said.
This year’s Olympiad offers challenging competitions for students in the age range of 8 up to 19 under two categories: The “Regular Category” and the “Open Category”. Participants in the “Regular Category” will build and program robots that modernize the energy use of a house assist with charging cars in a parking garage and help manage the energy mix on the grid. Whereas participants in the “Open Category” will develop robots that will enable the use of renewable energy sources in the most efficient way.
The winners of the competition will be selected by a panel of international judges, who will be scoring based on recorded video submissions and live demonstrations.
