Promoter – Bot Olympics
Action – Bot Olympics 2020
Description – Bot Olympics is an educational and training event that aims to show the world of robotics in a fun and a little more simplistic prism in order to captivate younger minds for a huge area, which represents the future of the world around us. The 2020 edition will be the sixth edition of this event, with the participation of 140 participants, 50 staff members and 30 mentors.
This competition has three tests running simultaneously, a test dedicated to basic education, secondary education and a third dedicated to higher education. The event takes place over four days, where participants will have to develop ways to achieve the goals of each competition in which they are inserted. The final of the competitions is played in the central square of one of the biggest shopping centers in Coimbra, Alma Shopping.
Simultaneously, the event will have numerous surprises designed for participants, such as demonstrations, talks, workshops and short challenges that can give participants an advantage in the end of the competition. Nothing is left to chance and the concomitant program that participants will be able to find is quite rich and dynamic.
Given the wide age range of the participants, this is a unique competition in Portugal as it brings together, in the same space, for 4 days, participants from basic to higher education. For all these reasons, Bot Olympics presents itself as an educational event of wide inclusion, as it ensures access to new digital technologies for the entire population and a wide age group, transmitting new digital knowledge to the entire population, thus broadening the horizons of all interested parties.