First Robotics Competition 2017 for International Technical Students

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A group Myanmar students are going to compete in the First Robotics Competition 2017, which will be held in Washington, DC, United States of America from 16 to 18 July.
This competition is annually held with the aim of creating a showcasing stage for the inventions of technical students as well as friendship and mutual understanding among the different cultures from all over the world.
This year, student teams representing over 160 countries are going to compete inventing robots that can distinguish sewage from clean water with blue and orange colors.

The Myanmar representative team has completed about eighty percent of their inventive work.
The team includes two girls and five boys of which three take care of software, three for hardware and one as adviser and supporting member.
The software and hardware guys will be technical students and the adviser may be an administrative official.

Member selection for this team took place in the Innovation Lab at Phandeyar Accelerator.
After announcing the information about the competition to technical universities in Yangon and Yangon University of Computing and Information Technology, selection was done thoroughly and carefully.

It is about half a month left before the competition.
Till now, nothing regarding the robot has announced to the public yet.
And every one is eager to know what the robot looks like and what its abilities are.
It may be the team’s policy to keep it as a secret.
We all will see when it is about time. What matter most is “will its performance be better than all of its competitors?”

Because this year’s assignment is to distinguish between sewage and clean water, it is going to be a detailed work and so hard for young students with limited experience.
Details about the external support are not known.
But being youths, they will surely be motivated and trying hard to show their inventions to the world.

The rivals will not be weak though.
They all, will be from countries which are more advanced in every sector than Myanmar apart from technology.
Myanmar is currently being less efficient, but there are emerging opportunities in the technology sector and the youths are aggressive about trying their best.
So, to what level the Myanmar team stand with their talents and efforts can only be known in the competition.