Tatarstan comes in third in national stage of World Robot Olympiad

Tatarstan has won the third place in a general team ranking within the World Robot Olympiad’s national stage held in Kazan on 20-22 June.
Deputy Tatarstan Information Technology and Communications Minister Yuriy Bagrov told a briefing at Tatarstan Cabinet’s premises that 33 teams had represented the region and six of them had won prizes.
Cheliabinsk Oblast that won 12 prizes became the champion and was followed by Moscow with eight prizes.
The participants for two days competed in six categories. A total of 720 robotics engineers aged 6 to 20 took part in the competition.
“In all, 373 teams from 42 Russian territories including Crimea took part in WRO’s national stage. Also, a Kazakhstan team participated out of competition,” the official commented.
About half of the robotics engineers were 9-11-year school students, Innopolis University's rector for pre-university education Sergei Masyagin said.
“They are our future applicants, best robotics engineers from all regions,” he shared.
Innopolis will be the World Robot Olympiad’s national operator for five years. In November, the World Robot Olympiad that will involve teams from Tatarstan will take place in Sochi. The WRO’s organising committee is headed up by Russian Mass Communications Minister Nikolai Nikiforov and Russian Education Minister Dmitry Livanov.