Abstract
This article presents the experience of conducting the Intercollegiate Robotics Olympiad in 2017, as a result of the implementation of the project of the School of Computing of the National University of Costa Rica (UNA), called Trainers in Robotics for Colleges in Vulnerable Areas, which is developed jointly with the Costa Rican Institute of Drugs (ICD) and the Ministry of Public Education (MEP). In addition, the challenges developed by the executors of the project and the results obtained by the benefited students who participated in this event are announced. This is an inter-institutional project of Costa Rica, which is aimed at preparing instructors in the area of robotics at the secondary level, so that they can train their students in vulnerable regions of Costa Rica. In order to give their students the opportunity to occupy their free time in positive activities.
Highlights
At the end of 2015, the "Training of Trainers in Robotics for Colleges in Vulnerable Areas of Costa Rica Project" was developed jointly by the School of Computing of the National University of Costa Rica (UNA), with the Costa Rican Institute of Drugs (ICD) and the Ministry of Public Education (MEP)
Which seeks the training of secondary teachers in the area of educational robotics
The purpose of this Olympiad is that students can share among the participants and test the knowledge obtained in the workshops, through challenges that have been designed so that students can effectively solve them in an appropriate time and with a level of complexity according to what was learned
Summary
The Latin American continent doesn’t have enough professionals to be a power in the development of software or technology in general, so it is important to encourage children and young people either with workshops or courses incorporated in their own houses of study (these being those who can grow the technological development having a direct consequence on the economic and social growth of their country) with this idea we start creating the future [15] It is for this reason that one of the objectives of the project is to consider motivating students in the study of programming so that they can visualize the opportunities they may have in the long term.
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