first taste of field robotics, FLL and FTC

The next 10 of March at the UVIC Catalonia, you can have a taste of Field Robotics attending one of the most well-known robotic competition, the First Lego League (FLL), in one of the preliminary rounds at Catalonia:  21 teams that will compete and will coöperate in this edition, each one with 3 to 10 students in the range from 10 to 16 years. This year the scientific challenge is about “Senior Solutions”. During the same day there will be 9 teams of younger students from 6 to 9 years that will play the Junior First Lego League, out of competition, with the aim of promoting team-work, creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship among them.

This is the very first time UVIC organizes this event, which contributes to promote scientific and engineering vocations among primary and secondary school students. Two of the FLL teams had been trained by engineering students from the UVIC Tech.The winners will have the opportunity to take part at the national final, held the following weekend,16-17th march; during the event there will take place the European FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), the Robotic competition with students from 17 to 23; moreover, to carry out our full immersion into the subject, a team from UVICTech students will take part, they are called “GarrinsFTC: els garrins metal·lics” and this will be their first taste of robotic competition. They have made a great work during these months, they also promoted a youtube channel to follow their evolution, let us wish them good luck: “Força Garrins!”

Field Robotics is becoming one of the focus points for the Engineering at the UVIC Tech, as an example the Integrated Project II subject from the Mechatronic Engineering Degree is mainly devoted to field robotics, each year the students develop a Real Robotic Project according to an annual challenge (example from 2011-2012 work -in catalan-),  the subject received a two-year grant from the AQUID 2012 call (CIFE-UVIC), with a project that promotes the international focus of students, that will give them basic training to compete in International Robotic Competitions (Eurobot / Robot Challange …) at the same time they develop skills to carry on a Real Industrial Project.