Team B3 from Hanoi’s Vietkids Primary School took top honours in the elementary division, while team D8 of Da Nang’s Tran Cao Van School claimed first prize in the intermediate category.
The organising board also awarded five second-place and six third-place prizes to teams from Ho Chi Minh City’s Le Ngoc Han and An Khanh schools, Hanoi’s Xuan Dinh and Doan Thi Diem schools, and Da Nang’s Tran Cao Van and Huynh Ngoc Hue schools.
The 13 robotics teams will go on to represent Vietnam at the 2013 Digital Youth Award – Robotics for Children competition slated for November 23 in Manila, Philippines.
Robothon, the first event of its kind in Vietnam, was jointly organised by the Ministry of Education and Training and the DTT-Eduspec joint-venture. 147 pupils participated, representing 49 teams from 10 primary schools in Hanoi, Da Nang and HCM City that are currently piloting robotics as an extracurricular.
The contest, themed ‘Smart City’, required that contestants tap their ingenuity and intelligence to assemble their robots and programme them to solve all assigned problems related to the construction of a smart city.
Contestants assembling their robots
A team is competing
