{"id":37093,"date":"2019-11-14T22:26:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T14:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=37093"},"modified":"2019-11-14T22:26:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T14:26:24","slug":"robots-meet-well-loved-pinoy-sports-in-tagisang-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2019\/11\/14\/robots-meet-well-loved-pinoy-sports-in-tagisang-robotics\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots meet well-loved Pinoy sports in Tagisang Robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Tagisang Robotics: Design, Build and Play Competition makes a comeback featuring a new game inspired by basketball, which will surely capture the creativity and team spirit of young Filipinos. The competition, which followed football in its previous runs from 2011-2014, will now see robots shooting sepak takraw<\/em> balls in a trajectory towards their respective goals.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The robots were designed and built by high school students who will also maneuver their creations on the playing field during the tournament proper on November 19-20, 2019, at the Forum 2 of the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Pasay City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The varsity-type robotics competition, organized by the Department of Science and Technology-Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI), is now on its fifth run. Dubbed as Tagisang Robotics 2.0, DOST-SEI Director Dr. Josette Biyo explained why it took the Institute five years to bring back the competition after its last tournament in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe needed to give way to other science promotion projects, but we\u2019ve always planned on bringing it back as we\u2019re aware of the increasing role of robotics in education, business, healthcare \u2013 in the Fourth Industrial Revolution in general,\u201d Dr. Biyo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DOST-SEI, aside from spearheading the DOST scholarships, implements science and mathematics teachers training and youth science promotion programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe hiatus also gave us the opportunity to reconfigure the game to best match the interests and talents of our students,\u201d Dr. Biyo added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The competition started last September 2019 with a five-day Technical Training and Workshop and Game Reveal. Kits containing robot parts were distributed to the teams during the training. They were given two months to design and build robots that could withstand the challenges in the playing field and shoot the most number of balls to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sixteen (16) schools set to face off against one another are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bangkal High School
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Benigno “Ninoy” S. Aquino High School
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Caloocan National Science and Technology High School
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Makati Science High School
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Malabon National High School
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Manila Science High School
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Marcelo H. del Pilar National High School
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Muntinlupa National High School \u2013 Main
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Pasig City Science High School
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Philippine Science High School Main Campus
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Pitogo High School
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Rizal High School
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Rizal National Science High School
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sen. Renato “Compa\u00f1ero” Cayetano Memorial Science & Technology High School
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Taguig Science High School
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Valenzuela School of Math and Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each team is composed of four junior high school students and one teacher-coach. They will go through seven rounds of elimination matches to determine which teams will advance to the semi-finals and finals.

Winners of the Best Team Award will receive P100,000 cash prize, while winners of the Best Alliance Award will bring home P150,000. The winning team\u2019s coach will receive P30,000. Winning alliance coaches will also get P15,000 each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe hope to spark students\u2019 interest in in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and in information and communications technology (ICT) through Tagisang Robotics. We also look forward to having them apply as DOST scholars. But mostly, we\u2019d like to make students see robotics as fun and engaging. It\u2019s a good start in ensuring our country will have more robotics experts in the future,\u201d Dr. Biyo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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