A joint group of students from Ironi D schools from Tel Aviv, Meshgav Regional High School and Jet High School won the FIRST competition

In the competition, the teams were required to build and operate a robot capable of throwing and catching a ball and scoring it into the opposing team's goal.

In FIRST 52 teams from high schools across the country participated in FIRST, the largest robotics competition in Israel. At the end of a competition that lasted two days, the group of students from the three schools won: Ironi D - Tel Aviv, Meshgav Regional High School and Jet High School. The winning students will participate in the World Robotics Championship in St. Louis, USA, which will be held at the end of April, and will compete against groups of students from the USA and around the world.
"We are very excited. This is the first time our school has won," said Dina Abu Paul and Shadia Badran, XNUMXth grade students from Jat High School. "We worked for a long time on the robot, but the effort paid off." Shadia Badran, who demonstrated impressive robot driving skills that led to her team's victory, received hugs from all team members. "I feel great pride for all of us," she added.

In the competition, the teams were required to build and operate a robot capable of throwing and catching a ball and scoring it into the opposing team's goal. In the finals, the students competed in teams that were each made up of three different schools from around the country. The group of students who won the final was made up of the three schools: Urban D - Tel Aviv, Meshgav Regional High School and Geth High School. They competed in the final competition in the group of students from the schools: Aviv High School - Ra'anana, Shoham Urban High School and Ort Binyamina.

The robotics competition in Israel held by the FIRST association in collaboration with the Technion, was founded in Israel by Major General (res.) Avihu Ben Nun. The activity is supported by the Ministry of Education and was announced in 2013 as the leading pre-academic program of the Technion.

The FIRST organization was founded in the USA, in 1989, by the entrepreneur and inventor Dean Kayman, with the goal of "creating a world where young people celebrate technology and science... a world where young people dream of being heroes of science and technology." Cayman has signed 440 patents in the US and abroad, including the home dialysis machine, a home insulin pump, the Segway and many others.