With the participation of official and private schools from the educational region of Central Panama, the First Meeting of Regional Robotics Olympics 2022 was launched. Throughout the country, 15 competitions will be held in which students will seek the score and classify the national ones that They will take place from October 5 to 7.
The Steam methodology is a pedagogical effort that will help complement the teaching-learning process and the Ministry of Education has implemented it, this year 2022, in the subject of natural sciences, said Carmen Reyes, National Director of Curriculum and Technology.
Dilán Samudio, from the Professional and Technical Institute of Capira, said that “our project is a 100% autonomous robot that, in its programming, is detecting obstacles, whether they are walls or colored objects on the track to avoid them to the left or right, but the program itself is to make it completely self-contained. Robotics is the future and can improve our life experience.”
Marvin Castillo, president of the foundation for the development of STEAM expressed that “today is a historic day, for the first time regional Olympics are held in our country, it is a German model that has achieved the growth of teams in Germany and every time As we prepare for a World Cup next year, it makes sense that we prepare our students.”
The Ministry of Education has a commitment to the organization of the world Olympics, it has begun the preparation of students with the regional Olympics, but above all with the preparation and training of more than 1,500,000 teachers during the next three years.
This 2022 we start with 800, the next year we will continue with another group of teachers so that they prepare to be coaches (coach) of the Olympics, in the International Robotics World Cup that will be held in our country there are more than 90 countries the calls to come to compete.
