Israeli high school students triumphed at an international robot competition this week, taking home four first place medals out of five categories in the Standard Division. And in the fifth category they fared well too, coming in second place ahead of contestants from all over the world.
The Israeli made ITV 4x4 proved itself the best youth-made robot in the world in its category. This week, it earned its creators, students from the Misgav High School in the Galilee, first prizes at the 13th Annual Trinity College Fire-Fighting Home Robot Contest, which took place in Hartford, Connecticut.
Over one hundred robots from dozens of countries participated in the contest. The students were challenged to build a small robot that responds to the beeping of a smoke detector, then navigates through a maze simulating an apartment to find the source of the smoke – in this case a burning candle – and extinguish it.
In a knowledge contest of physics and robotics, held in English, Misgav students shared first place with students from Hayovel High School in Herzliya, the Ramot Hefer School, and Ostrovsky High School in Raanana. The New Rabin High School in Kiryat Gat, which competed on a different track, came in second place.
“The students exhibited great knowledge, technological sophistication, a high level of control in various areas of expertise: design, construction and programming the robots,” Dr. Yaron Duplet, founder of the mechtronics departments of Misgav High School.
Story first published in Israel's leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth
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