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WRO theme 2022 - My Robot My Friend.
The WRO® theme for 2022 is My Robot My Friend.
The combination of robotics and artificial intelligence can change the world and especially the environment of humans. The season challenges are connected to the ways that robots can help humans. How can we make robot-human interaction helpful and safe?
RoboMission
WRO® RoboMission is a challenge-based competition. Students must design, construct and program an autonomous robot that can solve specific challenges on a field. Because the field is set up randomly each round, the robot needs to be able to make its own decisions during the run. All parts of the robot, including controller, motors and sensors must be from LEGO® (MINDSTORMS® NXT or EV3, SPIKE PRIME or Robot Inventor).
Future Innovators
Our Future Innovators category is a project-based competition. Students create their own innovative intelligent robotics solution relating to the current theme of the season. There is no restriction on the use of materials. This includes free choice of controllers, motors, sensors, etc. Teams will present their project and their robot model to a group of judges on the competition day. The judges will not only grade the robot solution but will also look at aspects of innovation and entrepreneurship.
WRO Guiding Principles
We are aware that a competition usually means that those involved are driven to win. This applies to team members, coaches, parents and even to countries. We feel there is nothing wrong with that, as long as the guiding principles of the competition remain intact.
We expect all teams and coaches participating in the competition to respect the WRO® Ethics Code.
- Teams are encouraged to learn and master new skills while having fun together.
- Coaches, mentors and parents are there to guide the teams, not to do the work for them.
- Participating and learning are more important than winning.
WRO Ethics Code for Teams
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- “It is not whether you win or lose, but how much you learn that counts.”
- We want to play fair. We design our own robot and we write our own software. It is not fair if someone else does that for us.
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- But our coach should not do the work for us. And we do not simply copy a robot or software from someone else.
- We use the examples we find to design our own robot and programming.
- Sometimes we fail and that is OK. Original ideas come from failing.
- Winning is nice but failing is part of the journey.