Final round of "Open Championship of Robots – "ArmRobotics" all-Armenian youth contest to be conducted May 28
ARMENPRESS
MAY 6,2010
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, MAY 6, ARMENPRESS: The final round of "Open Championship of
Robots – "ArmRobotics" all-Armenian youth contest will be conducted
May 28 in Yerevan Lovers’ Park. The contest is conducted by the Union
of Information Technology Enterprises.
Karen Vardanyan, executive director of the union, told Armenpress that
15 teams have been selected in the initial round, which have already
started the works on preparing robots. The robots will be given an
assignment of looking for a mine in specially extended areas. The
robots which will be fully ready will pass to the final round. The
winning team will be provided 300 thousand Drams, the team occupied
the second place – 300 thousand Drams, and for the third place 100
thousand Drams will be extended. The young people comprising the
teams are from Armenia and Iran.
K. Vardanyan said that the main goal of the contest is the general
development of robot engineering, strengthening of public interest
in it and involvement of scientific potential. According to him, the
contest enables young people to develop their capability of working
in a team fight. During the contest an opportunity is afforded to
find out new cadres for involving them in other programs, to promote
the entrance of new technologies into the scientific and industrial
centers of Armenia. He noted that they do not try to make the contest
an end in itself, but want that the programs submitted to the contest
become actually applicable.