The KDDI Foundation has introduced robot programming education in initial six schools in Lalitpur Metropolitan City, Nepal since 2018, and the number of support schools is expanding to 11 by 2023.
Through the past five years’ our supports, we would like to give an opportunity to students in the support schools to show all achievements of their routine activities in the robot programming.
Thanks to warm cooperations of headmasters of the support schools and authorities of Lalitpur Metropolitan City, persons concerned, we were able to hold a robot competition there in this June as our first challenge.
In the competition, students assemble, create and operate robots as well as programming designed by each school on the spot. The robot’s sensor detected a white line marked on the competition table, and the robot moved along it, competing for its speed and collecting speed of obstacles. All the students were so excited by participating in the competition, with joy and sorrow, they were watching which their robots could finish, which ones ran off the course, and which ones failed to collect obstacles. Problems such as course failures were dealt with on the spot, problems were recovered and improvements were made within a short period, and all the participants were able to see achievements of the students in the robot programming education.
We presented medals and certificates to outstanding achieving schools to celebrate their efforts. We were able to see one of great outcomes of any efforts in our five years’ supports and were able to successfully complete the competition. The event was also covered by a local TV station and was broadcasted on prime-time news.
▲Opening speech by President, Ph.D. Ano
▲Programming work
▲Students assembling robots
▲Competition scene
▲Interview from local broadcast station
▲Students rejoicing at the announcement of rankings
