A team of ten students from the ‘Mircea cel Batran’ National College in Ramnicu Valcea will represent Romania at this year’s FIRST LEGO League Morocco Open Invitational – an international robotics competition taking place in Marrakesh, Morocco, between May 16 – 22, write Agerpres.
Founded three years ago, Infinitronics is one of the three robotics teams of the ‘Mircea cel Batran’ National College in Ramnicu Valcea, and this year they qualified for the first time for the international stage of the FIRST LEGO League Challenge, after getting the second place in the national stage. The team impressed in all three trials of the competition – core values, robotics and innovative solutions, but did best in innovation.
„We qualified for the national stage thanks to our innovation project, a concept of a house intended to be energetically independent, with several elements. We won first place in the regional stage and we developed further for the national stage, because the champion and runners-up awards reward those teams that achieve excellence in all trials, not just one. The youngsters worked very well as a team and this showed in the core values. They also performed well in the robotics event. The score wasn’t necessarily extraordinary, I mean it wasn’t the highest possible, but you could see that they enjoyed each time, because in the end that’s what it’s all about: having fun and working together,” said the team’s coordinator Antonia Haller, computer science teacher at the Ramnicu Valcea high school.
The idea of designing an energy-independent house came to the young technology geeks amid the increase in electricity and gas prices. Their project features innovative solutions, especially as regards energy storage, but it also uses elements such as photovoltaic panels, photovoltaic glass windows or a biogas heating unit, which have been in use in Romania for many years now.
To prove that their home project is reliable, team Infinitronics posted it on their website, where those interested can also simulate the cost of installing such a system.
The Ramnicu Valcea high schoolers don’t lower the bar for the robotics project either, as they set out to work on and improve their Lego brick robot, aspiring for the highest possible score in Marrakesh.
