Robotics in Education

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The 11th Portuguese Robotics Open took place in Lisbon, Portugal, April 6-10, 2011 at the Instituto Superior Técnico congress center.

The Portuguese Robotics Open, which had its 1st edition in 2001, aims at promoting Science and Technology among students from the 1st grade to university studies, as well among the general public, through robot competitions. 

The Festival takes place every year in a different city, and includes also an international conference where national an international researchers present their latest work in the field of Robotics.

The event has had an enormous growth since the 1st edition, both in the number of teams, participants and visitors. The Portuguese Robotics Open is currently an initiative of Portuguese Society of Robotics.

Robotic soccer

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Young participants that love soccer, including robot soccer, aiming to become world champions such as their university colleagues that were world champions in 2008 in the RoboCup Middle Sized League. In this league they had the chance to test their assets and show the best of their skills in building and programming soccer robots.

Robotic junior dance

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Dance is a source of joy and happiness for all ages. Programming robots that dance autonomously is another source of joy for the young participants of this league, one of the most popular leagues of this event. Both programmers and robots danced all together sharing their joy with the audience.

Watch the video presentation (Portuguese language) below

The 11th International Conference on Mobile Robots and Competitions is an international scientific meeting in the field of Mobile Robotics technically co-sponsored by the IEEE and sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), through its Portuguese Chapter. 

Its scope encompasses, but is not limited to, the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Education.

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At the same time, last April 9-10, 2011 the "Fire-Fighting Home Robot Contest" took place in Hartford, Connecticut (USA). 

"Trinity’s annual robot competition, assistive robotics whose goal is to aid people with special needs and improve the quality of their lives – is playing an increasingly important role."

Altogether, about 125 teams – including those from Canada, China, Indonesia, Israel, Mexico, Portugal and, of course, the United States participated in what has become one of the premier robotics events in the world. 

Portuguese medail

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The winner in the category "Junior Division 2011" was a Portuguese  team, students from ADoT "Associação Desenvolver o Talento", Guarda (Portugal).The two students team Miguel Seabra and José Delgado (12 and 13 years old) 

ADoT team winner and teachers

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Desenvolver o Talento (ADoT), Portugal

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ADoT is a Portuguese association to aid gifted young people and improve the quality of their lives.


Congratulations to ADoT students and teachers!


G-Souto
11.04.2011
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References:


The Portuguese Robotics Open 2011 (Portugal)
http://robotica2011.ist.utl.pt/en/


Trinity College Robot Contest 2011 (USA)
http://www.trincoll.edu


ADoT
http://adotportugal.blogspot.com/

Robotics in Education Seminar

O Centro de Competência em Tecnologias e Inovação, do Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa, vai realizar no próximo dia 13 de Janeiro, às 16h00, um seminário subordinado ao tema Robótica Educativa.

Este evento decorrerá no Anfiteatro do Instituto de Educação (Edifício da Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação, na Alameda da Universidade).

A entrada é livre mas sujeita a inscrição prévia.

Poderá ler o programa aqui

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Robotic in Education Robotic will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, January, the 13th - 2011 at the "Centro de Competência em Tecnologias e Inovação" of the Instituto de Educação Universidade de Lisboa.

Read the programme here (PT). You must register for free here

O kit de robótica LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT foi desenvolvido pela LEGO essencialmente para a educação e reúne condições particularmente vantajosas na aprendizagem da programação. 

Pouco utilizado em Portugal, o kit Lego Mindstorms tem vindo a ser utilizado no Ensino Básico e Secundário noutros países, nomeadamente, nos Estados Unidos da América, na Dinamarca e no Brasil, com relatos de bons resultados. 

Segundo Carlos Almeida, a sua utilização seria um sucesso no âmbito do Ensino Básico ou nos cursos profissionais bem como a sua integração nas disciplinas de programação. 

O kit LEGO MINDSTORMS poderá também ser utilizado em projectos realizados nas escolas e na preparação e participações futuras dos alunos em concursos de robótica, como por exemplo, o concurso anual robotop.

Para participar nas diferentes competições, os alunos poderão ter entre oito e dezanove anos.

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The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotics kit was developed by LEGO primarily for education and have the all the advantageous in learning programming.

In Portugal, schools don't use it very much, but there are some countries such as the United States of America, Danemark and Brazil that use it in primary and elementary schools with good feedback.  

The kit LEGO MINDSTORMS can help students in robotics projects in order to participate in robotic contests, for example, the Robotop contest.

Exit Camp for Girls the young Portuguese girls showed their talent against the British team that were participating in an equivalent program that runned on IBM in the UK. The victory of the Portuguese robots against the British team was a very interesting point.

The aim was to promote Technology among young girls to increase gender equality in their future career.

Last December, the 30th - 2010, The Guardian published "Dawn of the age of the robotic" by Marina Gorbis, futurologist and head of Californian thinktank The Institute for the Future.

"Advancement in robotics will dominate next decade"

Marina Gorbis, head of the Institute for the Future

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07.01.2011

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