Bangladesh wins 13 awards

Team Bangladesh has won a total of 13 awards in this year’s global robotics event, ‘International Robot Olympiad (IRO)’ held in Thailand from January 12 to 15.

The 14-member team of Bangladeshi students won one gold medal, two silver medals, two bronze medals and eight technical medals in the 24th iteration of the IRO held in Phuket.

Around 1,500 participants from all around the world participated in the annual event this year, said a press release issued on Monday.

In the ‘Robot in Movie’ category, Maisha Sobhan, Samia Mehnaz, and Marjia Afifa Prithibi from Team Aficionados won the gold medal from the challenge group. Silver medalists from the junior group are Zaima Jahin Wara, Mahruz Mohammad Ayman and Shabnam Khan from Team Robosparkers.

In the challenge group of the ‘Creative Category’, Nusaiba Tazreen Tanisha, Sadia Anjum Puspo, BM Hamim from Team Zeroth won the silver medals.

Nusaiba Tazreen Tanisha, Sadia Anjum Puspo, BM Hamim from Team Zeroth and Nasheetat Zainah Rahman and Quazi Mostahid Labib from Team RoboTigers won the bronze medals from the challenge group under the ‘Robot in Movie’ category.

The technical medalists were Zaima Jahin Wara, Mahruz Mohammad Ayman, and Shabnam Khan from Team Robosparkers in the junior group of the ‘Creative Category’. Other technical medalists under the ‘creative category’ were Nasheetat Zainah Rahman, Quazi Mostahid Labib and Abrar Shahid from Team Robotigers; Mahir Tajwar Chowdhury from Team Xfanatics in the challenge group of the same category; Team Xfanatics consisting of Mahir Tajwar Chowdhury and Abrar Shahid in the challenge group of ‘Robot in Movie’ category.

Technical medals were also awarded to Nusaiba Tazreen Tanisha and Marjia Afifa Prithibi in the ‘Physical Computing’ category, Mahir Tajwar Chowdhury in the ‘FPV Racing Simulator’ category, Md Omar Karim in the ‘Energy Saving’, ‘Cart Rolling’ and ‘Robot Gathering’ category.