{"id":215858,"date":"2019-06-13T19:39:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T22:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=215858"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:18:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:18:06","slug":"brazilian-students-are-in-lebanon-for-robotics-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilian-students-are-in-lebanon-for-robotics-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian students are in Lebanon for robotics contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Three Brazilian student teams have joined\u00a0First Lego League<\/a>, a robotics competition taking place in Byblos, Lebanon from Friday (14) to Sunday (16). The teams are: FrancoDroid, from Rio de Janeiro; Conectados, from Paran\u00e1; and Galaxy Forces, from Rio Grande do Norte (pictured above). The Brazilians qualified in the SESI National Robotics Tournament last March in Rio<\/p>\n

The students are already in Lebanon. They will compete on the first and last day of the event. The tournament is part of an international program designed to encourage children and youths aged 9-16 to study and produce science and technology. Participating teams are required to program a robot built from Lego blocks in order to score points in a thematic game field (The Robot Game).<\/p>\n

The championship involves two other parts: using this year\u2019s theme to develop a project that poses a problem and presents its solution. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cIn Orbit.\u201d The other challenge is for the team to do all its work based on its own core values. The event features 74 teams and 500 competitors from 46 countries. The teams have created projects involving design, engineering and software for their robots, apart from the project itself.<\/p>\n

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The FrancoDroid team, out of Rio de Janeiro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Rio-based team is\u00a0FrancoDroid<\/a>, from Col\u00e9gio Liceu Franco-Brasileiro. They have created the Cosmo Cup \u2013 Space Menstrual Cup. The project is an unheard-of alternative to deal with women\u2019s periods in space in a healthy, sustainable way.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Conectados<\/a> team from Paran\u00e1 comprises 10 students from Escola Municipal Coronel Durival Britto e Silva. Their project is designed to address astronaut anxiety with lavender extract capsules.<\/p>\n

Galaxy Forces, out of Mossor\u00f3, Rio Grande do Norte, is the first team from the state to make it into the championship\u2019s international phase, according to Ana Karenine, the educational director at SESI Escola Mossor\u00f3\/RN \u2013 their school. The students ascertained that astronauts under low gravity will lose muscle mass. The solution was to design a vest using therabands, which are used in physical therapy, so the space travelers can exercise as needed. \u201cThe whole project is themed as though the astronauts were Power Rangers ready to save the universe,\u201d explained Karenine, in a reference to the superhero TV Show.<\/p>\n

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Team Conectados, from Escola Municipal Coronel Durival Britto e Silva in Paran\u00e1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The team\u2019s coach is schoolteacher Leonardo Garcia. The competing students are Renalle F\u00e1tima, Jos\u00e9 Alfredo, Vanessa Praxedes, Lucas Rock and N\u00e9fi \u00c2ngelo. They are accompanied by Ana Karenine and SESI robotics coordinator Anderson Vieira.<\/p>\n

Garcia explains that completing the project in a month\u2019s time required dedication from the team. \u201cSince then significant improvements happened, with the outfit [designed by the students]. Professional contacts were very enriching, since they led the students to learn biology, anatomy and physical therapy, as well as the physical phenomena involving the vest and theraband elasticity,\u201d the schoolteacher told ANBA.<\/p>\n

Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n

Press Release<\/div>\n
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