This is the first time a national robotics competition for such young children is held in Israel

The Olympiad is the high point of the excellence course which operates in collaboration with the National Center for Robotics at the Technion headed by Professor Moshe Shaham. The course deals with the development of excellence among elementary school students, in forty local authorities. The YTEK company has developed a unique pedagogical model that deals with the development of critical thinking and values education through four content areas: robotics, computer science, development of mathematical thinking and development of scientific thinking. More than 3000 outstanding children selected by the school administrators participate in the project.
The finals of the Robotics Olympiad that will be held at the Technion will be attended by students who passed the quarter and a half final stages, and they will compete according to age groups. Their task in the Olympics is to move an object by programming mobile and stationary robots as well as answering an interactive thinking quiz. The criteria for winning are the execution time, teamwork and critical thinking.
The competition will take place on Wednesday, May 26, 2010, at 17.00, in the Churchill Auditorium in Kiryat Technion.