The robotics team “Breaking Bot”, made up of students from Ciudad del Este (Alto Paraná), was awarded on Saturday as a finalist champion in the First Lego League Challenge in Houston, United States, also known as the Lego Robotics World Championship.
The team of young Paraguayans, representing the country for the second time at this event, achieved third place among more than 150 competing groups and will return home with a trophy and medals.
The talents from Alto Paraná, who attend the educational institution Piensa, attended the robotics world championship with their project Tech One, a reinvention of the card game Uno, with which they had qualified last February in the national tournament among 57 local teams at Paseo La Galería in Asunción, as part of the program supported by the foundation of the famous Danish company of building block toys.
The Paraguayan team honored in North America was composed of: Milagros Mayra Cecilia Torres Ríos, Igor Renan Elgue Franco, Tomas Daniel Zorrilla, Cecilia Adriana Corvalán Amarilla, Howard Hsu Pintos, Joaquin Obregón Dorigoni, Matías Rubén Balmoriz Lomaquiz, and Mathew Humberto Zorrilla López.
More than 18,600 students from 58 countries, distributed among 1,015 teams and in three competitive categories, participated in the robotics championship FIRST, from April 17 to 20, in Houston (Texas, United States). FIRST is a robotics community driven by the non-profit international organization founded in 1989 by the American entrepreneur and inventor Dean Kamen.
