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Young Students oversea Gathered in LA, making WER 2017 US Open happen

On October 1st U.S. local time, World Educational Robot Contest (WER) 2017 US Open took place at Valencia High School located at California. American participants from both China and the U.S. competed excitedly. Distinguished guests such as Prof. Jake Mendelssohn, founder of WERS and Mr. Cameron Zadeh, Chairman of WER US Organizing Committee presented and watched the contest. Over 100 teams, 300 contestants from China and local communities have participated in this contest.

(Competition Site)

(Prof. Jake interviewed by CCTV)

It’s show time for robots!

Themed “Industrial Age”, as other contests of WER 2017 season, this US Open still adopted the brick robot-centered system. The contest is divided into arena contest, extended tasks and team display. The arena contest is in the form of “4+3——4 preset tasks and 3 additional tasks. The 3 additional tasks were announced at the test stage, which revealed the principle of “It’s a contest among students rather than coaches”.

(Team members discussing the strategies)

At the venue, through brick attachment and programming, students made their costumed robots, which later became miners, architects and workers, working hard to complete a series of simulate tasks such as ore mining, iron tower building, railway building, metal smelting, goods transportation and even vapor machine improvement.

(Prof. Jake discussing with participants)

Creation display, see kids’ passion

The teams’ creation display is another exciting section. It includes not only the decoration of their team posters, but also the video selection of “My Robot Partner” made by participants.

(CCTV interviewing participants)

The videos with creative thoughts put kids’ imagination, their passion in robotic study and the achievement of studying robotics into full play.

(Creative posters)

With the expansion of WER, more and more kids and adolescents are able to get in touch with this top robotic contest. The enormous educational value has also been widely accepted and recognized by the international society.

(Young winners)

The WER US Open has provided robot fans, whether home or abroad, with excellent opportunities to communicate. Children gained unforgettable memory, and also friendships. Not long after, some of them will see each others again at WER World Championships on November in Shanghai, China!

（Video）

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Let’s Witness WER Croatia Tournaments

From September 23 to 24, 2017, Croatia local time, World Educational Robot Contest (WER)2017 Croatia Tournament took place at the capital Zagreb. Over 100 teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia gathered to present their supreme skills.

Hosted by WERS, co-undertaken by WER Croatia Organizing Committee, IRIM and Croatian Maker League, this contest aims at promoting the local scientific and technological innovative education and help with the innovative ability cultivation of local children.

(Distinguished guests presented at the contest, from left to right: Senior Consultant of Ministry of Education ŽarkoBošnjak, Senior Consultant of Ministry of Education Vlatka Filipović Marijić, Technical Consultant Vlado Lendvari, Mila Jelavić, Director of Culture and Sports Office of Ministry of Education, Tome Antičić, General Secretary of State Consul, General Superintendent of IRIM Paolo Zenzerović and WER General Secretary He Ting)

The theme of the contest is “Industrial Age”. At the venue, participants’ robots turn into miners, architects and workers during the period of the Industrial Revolution and accomplished simulation tasks such as ore mining, iron tower building, metal smelting, goods carriage and even steam engine improvement. Their imagination and creativity are all put into full play.

(Dedicated boys, handsome boys)

（This is quite tough, do some brainstorm…）

（Hi, Guy! You are so happy!）

(See what we have made!)

(Awarding moment)

Five winning teams of this contest will directly rise to the WER 2017 World Champions, from which, three are from Croatia, one is from Bosnia and Herzegovina and one is from Serbia. Look forward to their performance in November at the WER World Championships in Shanghai.

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WER’s First Appearance in Spain was Great Success

From July 15 to 16, Spain local time, World Educational Robot Contest (WER) European Open took place at Sevilla World Expo Museum. Participants from China, Spain and Mexico competed together, which attracted attention from mainstream media.

(Arena of the opening ceremony)

(Deputy Mayor’s congratulatory letter)

This is the first international open of WER 2017. It is also the first time that WER stepped on the land of Spain. Local government paid great attention to this open. Ms.armen Crasteño, Deputy Mayor of Sevilla sent a congratulatory letter to the contest. Chairman of WER Spain Organizing Committee Victor Martin presented at the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. National TV station Canal surTV made whole contest report on it. Besides, guests from WER Croatia Organizing Committee also presented.

(Chairman of WER Spain Organizing Committee Victor Martin delivered a speech)

(Spanish National TV Station interviewing contestants)

As the previous international opens, this time, the European Open was still based on brick robots. The contest was made of arena tasks, extended tasks and team presentation. In which the arena tasks were 4+3 tasks, which means that there were four pre-determined tasks and three additional tasks. The contents of the additional tasks will only be issued at the debugging period, which, to the largest extent, shew the contest principle of “Compete the students rather than the coaches.”

(Debug the devices together)

(Some changes should be made!)

(Ready, go!)

(Excellent!)

(Glorious time)

The team presentation, besides the decoration of the site, also includes the micro video themed “My Robot Partner.”Contests put their imagination into full play. Their infinite imagination, passion in robotic study and achievement were completely shown in the videos.

World Educational robot contest was launched and held by World Educational Robotics Society catering to kids and adolescents aged 4 to 18. Each year nearly 500,000 contestants from 30 countries came to attend all levels of contests.

Now that WER is becoming more and more wide-spread, more and more kids and adolescents are able to get in touch with the top-level robotic contest, its enormous educational values has been generally recognized by the whole society.

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WER’s First Australian Open Wowed South Hemisphere

From July 22 to 23, Sydney local time, World Educational Robot Contest (WER) took place at Sydney Olympics Sports Center. Nearly 200 students from both China and Australia took part in the competition. Abilix, as exclusively designated platform of WER, provided sponsorship and support to all levels of WER contests in the world.

(Guests at the opening ceremony)

(Competition site)

Educational robot heat in Australia

This was the first time for WER to step on Australia, which attracted great attention from local government and students. Governor of NSW, Minister of Multiple Element Culture Ms. Sophio Costsis, Liu Wenwu, Education Consul of the Consulate General of People’s Republic of China in Sydney, Dean of UNSW Electronics and Communication Engineering School Professor Julien Epps, Chairman of WER Australian Organizing Committee Alex Tang and WER General Secretary Ms. He Ting presented at the contest and addressed speech.

(Dean of UNSW Electronics and Communication Engineering School Professor Julien Epps delivering a speech)

(Chairman of WER Australian Organizing Committee Alex Tang addressing a speech)

The theme of the contest was still the “Industrial Age”of WER 2017 based on brick robots. The contest was made of arena tasks, extended tasks and team presentation. At the arena, kids, no matter from China or abroad, were all devoted to the tasks, showing their astonishing imagination and creation.

(We are ready)

The contest was set at Sydney Olympics Center, meaning that the spirit WER delivers is much like the Olympic spirit. The Olympic spirit emphasizes cultivation of bravery and endurance during the contest featured by friendship, unity and fair competition. WER aims to let students gain bravery to creative and train success ability regardless of frustrations, and at the same time, gain the precious friendship.

(New friends)

(Congratulations!)

WER received international recognition

World Educational robot contest was launched and held by World Educational Robotics Society catering to kids and adolescents aged 4 to 18. Each year nearly 500,000 contestants from 30 countries came to attend all levels of contests.

Now that WER is becoming more and more wide-spread, more and more kids and adolescents are able to get in touch with the top-level robotic contest, its enormous educational values has been generally recognized by the whole society.