WER 2014 Challenge was announced in Liuzhou City, China on Nov. 22th, 2013. Over 200 instructors and 10 media from 18 provinces attended the release conference. Jie Lu, Asian executive councilor of the Federation of World Educational Robot Contest, and professor Mingguo Zhao, director of WER Laboratory of Tsinghua University, were present in the news conference and gave speeches respectively. Professor Zhao explained the laws and thoughts during the rulemaking of WER 2014 Challenge in his speech. “First, potential solutions for finishing all tasks should be more varied and innovative,” Zhao said. “Besides, we focused on the testing of students’ innovative and hands-on competence during rulemaking. So factors that may affect the testing of above core points were avoided in final rules,” Zhao added later. The challenge “Prehistory Age” was announced onsite by Donghai Xu, team leader of the rulemaking, who started the subject with the story of Khufu Pyramid and later explained the rules in detail.
The complete new playing field for WER 2014, which delighted teachers and media staff, was also on shown in the conference. Teachers discussed and walked around the demo field with great interest. Some told the federation that the “Prehistory Age” theme was very interesting and challenging, they looked forward to the coming of the
2014 season.
Inside the Release Conference
Professor Zhao attended the release conference and made a speech