Submittance of applications for the Robototechnics Open Tournament "ROBOKAZAN" starts
On May 7, the Bashir Rameev IT Park will host the family festival in celebration of Radio and Communications Day. Registration for the upcoming open robotics and technological entrepreneurship tournament "ROBOKAZAN" is open.
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Currently, Russia ranks well outside the top 50 in robot density. By presidential decree of Vladimir Putin, the country is tasked with entering the top 25 by 2030, which requires deploying over 100,000 robots.
One of the main challenges facing the industry is the lack of skilled personnel. An Avito Jobs and Innopolis University study reveals that 43% of companies experience a shortage of automation engineers, 41% lack designers and 31% need more robot programmers.
Addressing this issue requires systemic efforts starting from school. Tatarstan Minister of Digitalization and the IT Park are organizing a new open robotics tournament, "ROBOKAZAN", which will unite over 2,000 participants. The prize fund exceeds 300,000 roubles, which will be divided among winners and medalists.
Deputy Minister of Digitalization of Tatarstan Bulat Gabdrakhmanov shared with journalists how open festivals will help nurture a new generation of engineers and allow young talents to take their first steps into technological entrepreneurship.
"We set an ambitious goal to make Kazan the robotics capital of Russia in the future," Gabdrakhmanov explained.
Founder of the MakerLab robotics club Aleksander Chetvergov spoke about the competitive tracks of the tournament. The programme includes five tracks and masterclasses. The centerpiece of the festival will be the "Technological Entrepreneurship" track, where young participants will defend their startups at exhibition stands before leading experts, present projects using WeDo construction sets and create service robots with programming control.
Other competitive tracks include:
Sports Robotics: Robots will compete in speed and complex task execution. Participants will assemble prototypes of nanosatellites, robots, play soccer with their creations and more.
Digital IT Startups: Young engineers will develop chatbots, applications and AI services using Python and JavaScript, as well as create 3D visualizations, animations, and games.
AI Hackathon: Beginners will undergo an intensive AI training, while advanced participants will work on real-world tasks and pitch their projects to experts.
Future Technologies: Teams will develop innovative ideas in safety, transportation, medicine, ecology and education.
Students from Gymnasium No. 19, Ilya Fadeev and Aydar Mugynov, exemplify how local tournaments and olympiads help nurture young talents with breakthrough ideas. Their journey began with assembling children's construction sets and later they participated in the Russian Robotics Olympiad and the All-Russian Schoolchildren Olympiad.
The students became prize winners at the international FIRA Olympiad in South Korea (the country with the highest robot density), with their startup Unibase. This educational platform aids children in learning robotics and seamlessly transitioning from assembling children's kits to working with Arduino—an electronic board capable of complex projects, such as building service robots.