A Peruvian nine-strong group of secondary school students will represent the Inca country at FIRST Global's very first Global Challenge, an international robot olympics to be held this July in D.C.
Peru will thus become one of the 150+ nations participating in the Olympics-style robotics event, which will challenge them to draw on the best of their knowledge, ingenuity, creativity and skills to address world problems.
In this context, this year's inaugural Challenge will focus on providing access to clean water, an immense global issue affecting more than one billion people across all continents.
In this sense, Peru's representatives will need to design a robot to complete a variety of engineering tasks focused on access to this precious resource.
Team Peru
The national team is composed of nine Domingo Savio School secondary students joined by their passion for robotics and computers.
Moises Hidalgo and Andre Gordillo, the "kings of programming" of the team, are in charge of the mathematical aspect of the project and the function of robotic designs.
The design of prototypes is responsibility of Sebastian Rospigliosi, Enzo Hurtado, Henry Sardon and Fernando Llerena, the groups' joyful, optimistic and inexhaustible source of creativity.
Team moderators Sebastian Zegarra and Yerival Polanco help their fellow members make the best decisions, maintaining harmony in the group.
And last but not least, Kevin Llanos and Jose Huamani test the gadgets in a demanding operational assessment, checking how satisfactory the robots are when presenting them to the public.
FIRST Global
FIRST Global is a not-for-profit organization founded by philanthropic inventor Dean Kamen to ignite a passion for science and technology leadership and innovation among the world's more than two billion youths.
With its robot olympics, FIRST Global seeks to drive home the importance of obtaining the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills our future leaders will need to overcome the greatest challenges facing our world – today and tomorrow.
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