Results of the 4th ORT Robotics Festival-Olympiad were summarised

Robotics Festival-Olympiad for the students and teachers of ORT network and partner schools in the CIS, Baltic States and Bulgaria was held April 21-24, 2013 on the base of Kiev ORT Technology Lyceum  (Principal – Yuriy Kinkov).

12 teams from Sofia, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Kazan, Kiev, Kishinev, Odessa, Chernivtsi, Samara, Moscow, Tallinn and Vilnius were participating.

First day participants visited All-Ukrainian Robotics Olympiad and had a city tour accompanied by Kiev ORT Lyceum teacher Irina Fridman. 

On the opening ceremony of the Olympiad participants were welcomed by the Kiev ORT Lyceum Principal Yuri Kinkov and special guests, including head of J-Sport Camp Darina Privalko. Audience was pleased with the performance of all students of the Lyceum.

April, 22, there was the official ceremony of Olympiad opening held. Participants were welcomed by ORT Technology Lyceum Principal Yuriy Kinkov and honored guests. Audience was joyed by the Robots’ Dance demonstration.

Program of the contest included the following competitions:

• "The rope pulling"

• "Tanki-Banki"

• "Walking robots"

• "Biathlon"

• "Pyramid"

• "Triathlon"

Second day there were 2 stages –“Triathlon” and “The rope pulling”. 

“Triatlon” winners:

1 place – Dnepropetrovsk "Levi Yitzchak Schneerson" Ohr Avner School #144

2 place – Kiev ORT Technology Lyceum

3 place – Zaporozhye ORT "Aleph" Jewish Gymnasium

«The rope pulling» winners:

1 place– Sofia 134 "Dimcho Debelianov" Hebrew and English Language School (Lauder - ORT School)

2 place – Kishinev ORT Technology Lyceum

3 place – Moscow ORT Technology School (Gymnasia # 1540)  

At the end of the second day of Olympiad the traditional contest of creativity took place. The theme of this year was "Robots in science". Team of the Kiev ORT Technology Lyceum (Elena Krasnova and Anastasia Sbodnyakova, supervisor – Irina Usatenko) was recognized as the winner, representing the model of “swimming” robot for discovering and researching of sunken objects.

In the third day the main ranking was held:

«Tanki-Banki» winners:

1 place – Dnepropetrovsk "Levi Yitzchak Schneerson" Ohr Avner School #144

2 place – Odessa ORT Secondary School # 94

3 place – Zaporozhye ORT "Aleph" Jewish Gymnasium

«Walking Robots» winners:

1 place – Samara ORT Secondary School # 42 "Gesher"

2 place – Odessa ORT Secondary School # 94                                                                                                

«Biathlon» winners:

1 place – Zaporozhye ORT "Aleph" Jewish Gymnasium

2 place – Chernivitsi ORT Specialized School #41

3 place – Moscow ORT Technology School (Gymnasia # 1540).                                                             

In conclusion of the competition there was “Pyramid”.

Winners:

1 place – ORT Tallinn Jewish School

2 place– Dnepropetrovsk "Levi Yitzchak Schneerson" Ohr Avner School #144

3 place  –  Zaporozhye ORT "Aleph" Jewish Gymnasium

The winner of the competition was determined by the sum of points in each of the types of competitions in each age category.

1 place – Zaporozhye ORT "Aleph" Jewish Gymnasium: Jacov Nepomnyashchii and Maxim Senik. Head: Alexey Kurgan

2 place - Dnepropetrovsk "Levi Yitzchak Schneerson" Ohr Avner School #144: Vladislav Korzhenko and Andrew Yavtushenko. Head: Natalia Goshkador.

3 place – Kiev ORT Technology Lyceum: Elena Krasnova and Anastasia Sbodnyakova. Head: Irina Usatenko

Within the frames of Olympiad the training seminar for teachers was organised. They were able to share their experience and to discuss new facilities and developments in the field of Robotics teaching at school.

Viatcheslav Fialo (Kazan) and Galina Brusnitsynsa (Yekaterinburg) told about the all-Russia conference on methods of teaching Robotics in general and additional education (ORT was among the organisers).

Participants of Robotraffic 2013, taking place on the base of Technion (Haifa, Israel), told about their experience of participating in this competition.

Then Igor Kot the teacher of ORT Odessa School provided workshop on preparing to MamaRobot competition and Deputy Principal of Kiev ORT Technology Lyceum Sergey Dzuba did so on using Arduino platform.

On seminar’s results its participants provided some recommendations to Olympiad’s organisers.   

During the awarding ceremony teacher of ICT and Technology of ORT Odessa school was awarded by  Beatrice Wand Polack Awards grant for being this year laureate. 

Winner team was awarded by prizes:

1st place -  Zaporozhye ORT "Aleph" Jewish Gymnasium - Samsung Galaxy Tabs 2 7.0.

2nd place - Dnepropetrovsk "Levi Yitzchak Schneerson" Ohr Avner School #144 - PocketBooks A7

3rd place - Kiev ORT Technology Lyceum -  ImPADs 2113.

They also were delivered with medals and diplomas. All the participants received honours letters from ORT and USB drives.