2010 World Robotics Olympiad (WRO)

The world is set to celebrate the amazing synergy of robotics and learning for the first time in the Philippines.

As host of this year's World Robotics Olympiad (WRO), the country is all systems go for the annual meet of the "youngest and most brilliant minds" in the realm of science and technology with the theme 'Robots Promotes Tourism,' slated on 6 November 2010 at the SMX Convention Center.

Organized by Felta Multimedia, the event shall be the venue where science, technology and education brings together the young people all over the world to develop their creativity and problem solving skills through challenging and educational robot competitions. Schools are invited to enter a team of three students to participate in this competition. Participating teams need to create, design and build a robot models that looks or behaves like human athlete. The competition starts from preliminary to the final judging.

The objectives of the WRO are the following:
Provide the promising elementary and high school students an opportunity to expand their horizons through exploration of robots and robotic systems in the school.
Introduce the concept of modern science into school’s educational activities in science and technology.
Provide an opportunity to promote creative thinking, improve communications and cooperation skills and strengthen the ability to acquire new knowledge highly relevant towards progressive education.
Bring together young people all over the world to develop creativity and problem solving skills through challenging and educational robot competition.
To widen the youth’s view in the application of science & technology, improve their learning efficiency & encourage our youth to be future scientists, engineers and inventors.The 2010 WRO is supported by the Science Education Institute - Department of Science and Technology (SEI-DOST) and the Department of Education (DepED).

For more details, contact Coni Peralta at (632) 912-1397 or email felta