MCAST Information and Communication Technology students have been chosen to participate in the world’s first International Robot Olympics Competition. The exciting opportunity, will involve MCAST ICT students competing against 160 nations, including 40 European nations, a college statement said.
The task at hand will be taken upon by Patrick Brezja, Andrea Abela and Clive Tonna, who are level 4 second year students following software development and multimedia software devolvement courses. The task involves building a robot to filter out blue balls from orange simulating water filtration. Work on the robot has already begun and their mentor Conrad Vassallo, Director of the Institute of Information and Communication Technology, is aiding them in the process.
The international competition has been created, in order to promote and share; science and technology leadership whilst also encouraging innovation through the world’s youth. Such a global competition has guaranteed that nations from across the globe, including all of the six populated continents are being given the opportunity to represent their nation in the competition, in the hope that everyone will have the chance to benefit from the educational investments in STEM subjects – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
The MCAST students representing Malta have till the 16-20 July 2017, in which by then they will have to present their finished robot in Washington DC.