The final of the First 2010 competition will bring together hundreds of teenagers from Israel and abroad and dozens of sophisticated robots, who will compete against each other in a football game full of obstacles
The winning teams will represent Israel in the global robotics competition, which will be held in Atlanta together with 340 other teams from the USA, Canada and Israel.
Hundreds of teenagers aged 9-18 from the country and abroad (teams from Turkey, Bosnia and California) will participate in the finals of the robotics competition, which is initiated by the organization FIRST Israel, to encourage teenagers to approach technology studies. They will present to the judging team robots that they designed and built according to the challenge set by the competition.
The final competition will take place on Monday and Tuesday, March 15-16, from 9:00 a.m. to 17:30 p.m., at the Nokia Tel Aviv Hall, which will become a dynamic and lively arena of dozens of robots competing against each other.
The robotics final includes 2 competitions:
FIRST Robotic Competition - a competition for high school students ages 14-18. This year, 51 teams from around the country + 4 teams from abroad will participate in the competition: a team from Turkey, Bosnia and 2 teams from California.
The challenge of the competition: Breakaway - building a robot weighing 60 kg at most, which will be required to play football together with 5 robots on the field. Beyond scoring goals, there are other challenges: crossing ramps, crossing tunnels, hanging the robot in the last 20 seconds of the game at a height of 1/2 meter above the ground and at the same time, holding another robot that will hang on them.
FIRST Lego League – for elementary and middle school students ages 9-14. This year 103 groups across the country are participating.
The challenge of the competition: "smart movement" - how to transport people, goods and services in the safest and most efficient way?
FIRST Israel is a non-profit organization, founded by the inventor Dean Cayman in the USA, with the aim of encouraging young people to be more involved and active in the fields of science and technology. FIRST is supported by hundreds of professional and financial companies in Israel and around the world, including NASA and MIT University who are partners in building and developing the competition challenge.
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It pained me terribly to hear that there was discrimination in the robot competitions this year as well, apparently there are teams that are favored by the judges, our children from Ort Hazor HaGalilit champions worked days and nights all alone without funding, we are proud of you dear children, Team First, take this year's and last year's complaints to your attention .
The six national teams represented Israel with honor in Atlanta. The Emek Hafer team reached the semi-finals at home and the Aviv High School = steampunk team won the prestigious judges' award, for its work to spread the vision of the organization to spread the love of science and technology among teenagers, and for its extensive community activities.
4, you are talking about the FLL, the real problems were in the FRC competition, where they had serious communication problems, which hurt the whole competition.
And I didn't mention all the lights, which didn't work properly and made the robot go crazy (and yes, it was designed to travel with a fluorescent light bulb) and in addition, in the middle of the presentation of the group work, lights on the walls behind us turned on, exactly in an important section, it was not nice
Everyone is absolutely right!
First of all, the day of the competition was exactly the same day as the checkpoint on Route Six, so the competition was delayed for an hour and a half, and then, the robots encountered various problems in the arena, and so it turns out that a robot with 400 points only does 340 or not at all, which is a shame, the children put in a lot of effort and stayed overnight Complete with the aim of winning.
The presentation of the project was also mediocre, everyone had to stand, except for one who was sitting, and every few seconds children from other groups came, asked something or just wanted to check something and were very disruptive, and the malfunction in the distribution of prizes was simply shameful, as a first-year group in the competition, we expected more and the disappointment was Very big
I understand that part of the blame lies precisely with the equipment that the Americans brought and that did not match the standard in Israel. It is really not appropriate for such a respected organization not to check such problems first. The kids really tried and invested, and in the end couldn't show the real capabilities of the robots they built. At least many awards were given, not related to the game itself such as team spirit, creativity, helping other teams and more. The most important award is the chairman's award - given for volunteer work and contribution to the community, which the children perform while working hard on building the robots. Well done to the winners, and to all the participating groups! Hope the organization learns from its mistakes for next year.
You are also right in fll the air conditioner didn't work there for hours until a conversation with a senior helped. Judges from the regional competition sometimes judged teams for the second time in the same year. You also had to go far to the judges and immediately there would be allocations and this caused problems. Whoever it is has won grace.
Even at the closing ceremony it went extremely poorly.. The teams that won the awards were accidentally revealed in the presentation.
In short, as a second year, I was disappointed in terms of managing the competition, which caused the failure.
It's not fair, what a mess there is, the infrastructure is not active, malfunctions, the poor children invested time, effort, and everything is falling down, too bad...