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Introduction:

WER, short for World Educational Robot contest, is a robotics event started by the Federation of World Educational Robot (FWER).2015 WER Canadian International Championship is scheduled to be held in 5th&6th July.

Focusing on young people aged from 9 to 18, WER has attracted 300,000 participants all around the world every year. Teams from various countries will compete and show their talents on the same stage there. Teachers from different countries will meet together, discuss and exchange their ideas in technical education.

As one of the most open, interesting and challenging robotics event in the globe, WER targets itself to be a robotics event that is dominated and participated by students. Additional tasks that require participants to finish without their teachers will be released 2 hours before the contest formally begins. Besides, WER provides sections, such as Q&A on skills and reports, extended contest, team contest, posters selection etc., for different levels.

Contest Theme for Year 2015:The Origin of Civilization

Timeline:

Enrollment deadline: May 10th, 2015

Competition time: 5th&6th July,2015

Location:

The University of British Columbia (Located in Vancouver, Canada)

Notes:

Start a team: 2 to 10 players, 1 coach and 1 coordinator for 1 team

Enrollment fee: USD 75 per player; no enrollment fee for technical teachers and coordinators

Division:

 

• Junior Division – elementary school level (grade3-6)
• Junior High Division – junior high school level (grade7-9)
• Senior High Division – high school level (grade10-12)

 

Rules：http://www.wercontest.org/special/WER2015theme/

Event Consultancy:

Email: wer@wercontest.org

Educators interested in robotics events or technical education are warmly welcomed to bring teams for WER contest.

Detailed schedule will be released on the website:www.WERcontest.org

 

 

Invitation of 2015 WER Canadian International Championship.pdf

Registration Form

 

Nov 14, 2014, the 2015 WER theme release conference was held in Shanghai. This event was co-hosted by the Federation of World Educational Robot and WER laboratory of Tsinghua University. Abilix attended the conference as its exclusive sponsor.

Professor Zhao Mingguo, dean of WER laboratory of Tsinghua University, released the main theme of 2015 WER, which was “The Origin of Civilization”, for about 300 students and teachers. The international judge of WER illustrated and elaborated new rules and tasks in the conference.

For more information about 2015 WER, please go to www.wercontest.org

 

Professor Zhao releases the main theme of 2015 WER

 

The international judge of WER illustrates new tasks and rules.

 

 

From Nov 14 to 16, 2014, World Educational Robot(WER) was held in Shanghai University Of Engineering Science. Some 800 participants from 28 provinces attended the contest. WER (China) is the most important contest in the contest region of China, teams that stand out will have the chance to represent China and compete in the 2015 international contest in Canada.

Besides the standard tasks and one on-site-release extra task, two on-site-assign extended tasks, ball-throwing competition and skills report, are added especially to the contest in a purpose to not only increase the diversity and interest of WER, but also evaluate the participant’s ability on creativity, logic thinking and team working.

WER, short for World Educational Robot, is founded by a NGO called Federation of World Educational Robot which is registered in Hong Kong. Annual rule research of the contest is conducted by WER laboratory of Tsinghua University.

 

All seats are taken in the opening ceremony

 

Distinguished guests speak highly of the contest structure.

 

Participants fully devoted themselves to the contest

 

WER focus on the ability of team working and dealing with problems as a team. Without the help from their instructors, the participants’ real abilities are tested

 

Participants build their robots on site for the on-site-assign section. Let’s see whose robot can throw a ball further (ball-throwing contest in on-site-assign section)

 

All round abilities of the participants are tested in the skills report section

 

CCTV, the most influential news media, is interviewing a participant

 

Congratulations to the top three winners. They’re invited to join the international contest next year

 

On August 7,2014(San Francisco, US time),the 2014 WER American Invitational Tournament was held in University of California, Berkeley. Contestants from the US, China, Japan, Canada, Philippine and etc. participated the final. After two days’ intense conpetition, the Chinese delegated group got the first prize.

The WER Contest is founded and held by the Federation of World Educational Robot, which releases a game theme based on the world hot topic or event, aiming to cultivate teenagers’ interest of science and technology, and to encourage them to design their own robots. The game theme of WER this year is “Prehistorical Age”. The contestants need to design, build and program different functioned and shaped robots to meet the requirement of different tasks. On the 5 square meters large, double layered arena, the robot need to help primitive human to live and produce, taking 17 tasks, such as Fruit Picking, Hand Drilling, Making Fire, Grain Harvesting, Stoneware Fetching and etc. The goal of WER is to become the most popular robot contest in the world.

WER rule research laboratory is built in Institute of Control Theory and Technology of Tsinghua University. Two main points can be applied to when distinguish WER from traditional robot contest. On the one hand, the final game rules are set on the gaming site, in order to be fair and test contestants’ skills and improvisational performance. On the the other hand, the game arena is more challenging since it contains two layers and the tasks are both on the ground and in the air.

 

: http://youtu.be/s4RPs5RMEkE

Jake Mendelssohn, president of the WER America Division, held the grand opening ceremony.

 

Every second counts for the American contestants during debugging.

 

Without the instructor’s help, the Chinese contestants were discussing the strategies themselves. Time to count on themselves.

 

Team demonstration to the judges from China and America during the Interview session.

2014 WER American Invitational Tournament is scheduled to be held in August.Teams from various countries will compete and show their talents on the same stage there. Teachers from different countries will meet together, discuss andexchange their ideas in technical education.

WER, short for World Educational Robot Contest, is a robotics event start by the Federation of World Educational Robot Contest. Annual rulemaking of the contest is done by the Robotics and Automation Laboratory of Tsinghua University. WER seeks to help foster students’ creative and hands‐on ability by robotics project. The practice also proves that WER is a good platform guiding students to solve real life problems by the comprehensive use of knowledge in science, technology, engineering, math, etc., as well as a good experience for students to do teamwork.

As one of the most open, interesting and challenging robotics event in the globe,WER targets itself to be a robotics event that is dominated and participated by students. WER differs from other robotics events in that it offers extra tasks for students who want to challenge themselves and get extra scores, in that it has a two‐story contest arena. All the unique features make the robotics event more interesting and challenging.

Contest Theme for Year 2014: Prehistory Age

Timeline:

Enrollment deadline: June 10th, 2014

Check in and Preparation: August 6th, 2014

Competition time: From August 6th, 2014 – August 7th, 2014

Location:

University of California, Berkeley (Located in Berkeley, California, United States)

Notes:

Start a team: 2 to 10 players, 1 coach and 1 coordinator for 1 team

Age limitation: players should age 8 to 17 (8 and 17 included)

Enrollment fee: USD 75 per player; no enrollment fee for technical teachers and coordinators

Event Consultancy:

Email: wer@wercontest.org

Educators interested in robotics events or technical education are warmly welcomed to bring teams for WER contest.

Detailed schedule will be released on the website:www.WERcontest.org

 

 

 

Notice of 2014 WER American Invitational Tournament.pd

 

 

 

2013 WER Tournament was held in Liuzhou city, China. Started from Nov. 23th, the two-day tournament attracted over 1,000 students of 300 more teams from 18 provinces and municipalities.

Honored guests including government staff and university professors were present for the opening ceremony for this robotics event, such as Xing Meng, deputy director of Youth Science and Technology Center of China Association of Science and Technology, Xiaofu Wang, deputy director of National Center for Educational Technology, Chunhua Liang, vice chairman of the Communist Party of Guangxi Association of Science and Technology, Yaoguang Jiao, deputy mayor of Liuzhou City, Minguo Zhao, professor of Tsinghua University, etc. After the opening ceremony, they visited the contest and highly praised the mode of WER.

Contest theme of WER 2013 is “Intelligent Robot Housekeeper”. Each team should build a series of robots creatively and then finish all tasks specified, such as “Garbage disposal”, “Chandelier repairing”, etc. Meanwhile, each team can also apply for additional tasks (additional scores available) which are released just 2 hours before the official competition. The formal competition for each team includes 3 rounds. Final scores are determined by scores got in each round (round 1+round 2+round 3). The two-day intense competition includes two events: WER and WER-J. There are 18 awards available for WER & WER-J, and separated into Primary-school level, middle-school level and high-school level, each level with three awards (gold, silver, and bronze).

“The contest held here is different from previous ones. I find more teams joined compared with other seasons. I also find that we have players of ethnic minorities in their traditional costumes here”, executive member from the Asian Division of the Federation of World Educational Robot, Jie Lu said at the closing ceremony. He also highly praised players for their serious attitude and persistence in the contest. Meanwhile, Mr Lu showed his respect to teachers for their dedication and delivered the message that the federation of WER will consistently promote and develop this robotics contest to be the most authoritative and most influential robotics event globally. It is predicted that the 2014 WER International Tournament is going to be held in USA, while the Liuzhou tournament works as the qualification trials for the International Tournament. Winners in Liuzhou Tournament will get the priority to attend international tournament and compete with players from other countries.

Show at the opening ceremony—my future is not just a dream

Opening ceremony starts

Xing Meng, deputy director of Youth Science and Technology Center of China Association for Science and Technology, doing the opening address

Xiaowu Wang, vice chairman of National Center for Educational Technology, announcing the start of the opening ceremony

Game about to start

I made it

Children of ethnic minorities in the game

Hurry up, we got little time left

Media interview

Not easy to be a champion

LOL. Look at me！

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

2013 World Educational Robot Contest China Championships is organized by the Federation of World Educational Robot. As robots will play an important role as human being’s partners in our future daily lives, WER contest always focuses on theme of future family lives.

WER laboratory, an institution works on rules of the contest, was established in Tsinghua University, to make revision and innovation on the contest rules every year. Social responsibility of WER

● To cultivate students’ creativity and practical ability through robot projects;

● Attempt to resolve real life problems through comprehensive utilization of science, technology, engineering and math, etc.

● Learn to organize and manage a team, work collaboratively.

2013 World Educational Robot Contest China Championships will be held in Liuzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang minority Autonomous Region of China from Nov. 22 to 24. We sincerely invite you to attend the event for contest and exchange with students from China as well as the rest of the world.

Schedule

Date	Time	Content
Nov.22 2013	9:00—18:00	Check-In and Practice
Nov.23-24 2013	9:00—18:00	Contest

For more competition information or inquiry, please visit our official website:
http://www.WERcontest.org

If you have any questions, please send email:wer@wercontest.org

We are looking forward to your presence.

File Download:

 

 

 

2013 World Educational Robot Contest China Championships Notification.pdf

 

2013 World Educational Robot Contest was successfully held in Luoyang City, Henan Province, China. The three-day robotics contest started in August 16th, 2013. Over 200 teams and experts in robotics education attended the grand robotic event. Meanwhile, the 2013 International Educational Robot Forum was also hosted during this period of time.

World Educational Robot Contest (WER) is an international robotics event started by the Federation of World Educational Robot. Abilix is the unique sponsor of the Robotics contest.

 

Leaders and honored guests from China, USA, Israel, Italy, Philippines, etc are attending the opening ceremony of 14th “xPartner Cup” China Intelligent Robot Contest and 2013 International Invitational Tournament of World Educational Robot Contest

 

Opening ceremony of World Educational Robot Contest (WER)

 

Players are discussing the strategy

 

Players are adjusting their robot in the field

 

Though Philippines team doesn’t speak Chinese, they can communicate well with referees

 

Getting a prize is not the goal, but it actually is the most effective encouragement for players

 

Professor Igor Verner from Israel Institute of Technology brings us latest research trends of robotics

 

Professor Jake Mendelssohn is sharing his teaching experience in robotics with teachers

East China Regional Tournament of WER Contest was held in the Affiliated School of Shanghai Jin Yuan High School on June 10th and June 11th, 2013. Over 100 primary & middle school students from 6 provinces of East China attended the contest and showed their thinking ability and innovation capacity in Shanghai of China. The contest is organized by the organizing committee of WER China. Besides, Abilix is the only sponsor brand of the contest.

13:00, June 10th, 2013

The playing field became available for debugging. Players were making full use of every minute for making sure their robots could adapt to the playing field.

14:00, June 11th, 2013

Three additional subtasks were released.

Hurry up. Let’s see what additional subtasks are. Can we fulfill one of them?

After getting additional subtasks, teachers and students were given a few minutes to decide their strategies. Though teachers were in a hurry, it could only be the students to debug their robots. So it depended on the practice ability and the daily training of students.

9:00, June 11th, 2013

East China Regional Contest of WER Contest formally started.

Opening ceremony of the contest

16:00, June 11th, 2013

The closing ceremony and award ceremony started.

No matter what the result is, students are all winners. Because they have learned more knowledge, improved their skills, gained more confidence and mastered how to do teamwork during their preparation, training and competition process. Students’ smiles are the best return to the host and organizers.