FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is a playground for about 100,000 high schoolers around the globe with keen interests in robotics who are guided by experienced trainers. With a view to discovering novel, unique and game-changing designs, FRC not only challenges participating teams based on their acquired logical skills through a learning process but also their cooperating spirits, teamwork skills, negotiating skills, all of which are essential to secure the victory prize. Moreover, this is also an excellent opportunity for contestants to broaden their scientific-technological knowledge, boost their confidence and engage in exchanges with other international participants about robotics.

In this year’s online Game Design Challenge Awards, Vietnam’s representative GART 6520 team from Hanoi-Amsterdam High School overtook 30 teams in the same group stage including a Canadian team, a Polish team, a Mexican team, 27 American teams and won the Engineer Design Award with a design named “Park”. “Park” is a robot designed by Amsers over the course of 3 months using materials like plastic tubes, adhesive tapes and badminton rackets to generate more friction. With innovative ideas implemented into the design, the team was able to impress the judges by minimizing the robot’s mass, area and production costs.

The GART 6520 team and their design “Park”