Under the topic “Natural Innovation: The Encounter between Missionary Biodiversity and Robotics”second day Pre-Gala of the Robotic School of Misiones in Posadas.
All works and projects realized by students in the first semester of this year were screened, with a premise connecting the province’s biodiversity with the potential of robotics and its wide and deep scope, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In a dialogue with FIRST EDITIONtechnical coordinator of the school, Javier Bergersaid that the event “essentially showcased the work that the students of the Robotics School have done in this first period of the year, so as part of the Pre-Gala we will find various prototypes developed by students who will present the finished project at a gala at the end of the year“.
“The theme has to do with nature-related innovation, so many projects are related to this, with the application of artificial intelligence, the application of robotics, the application of the Internet of Things in projects that are fused with nature” explained the coordinator.
Although several works were presented, some of them very interesting for use in everyday life, Berger said that “we highlighted some that have to do with the application of artificial intelligence, which came from some students who worked with different models of artificial vision. In particular, it is a project that he is looking for classify the native seeds we have in the region, then an artificial vision model is developed that has applications that you can tell from the photo what variety and what kind the seed is.’
He added that “there are also other projects that work in this direction, which is to identify, for example species of each mosquito and control them“.
Berger noted that “The School of Robotics has a headquarters as well as an entire network Maker Spaces, which are located in individual municipalities. Together with the school and the Maker Spaces network This year we reached 50 thousand students. While more than 600 students participate in various activities on school trips every day, just like we have Robotics Club where students come to participate and build their robots to compete.”
In this sense, the coordinator expressed his happiness, because the balance of the first semester “is extremely positive, p registration record this year” and also because “we have many projects, very interesting and which motivate students to come every day of the year, even today when it’s very cold, but it doesn’t matter because the children come enthusiastically. And as you walk through the different areas of the school, you’ll see how students explain and get excited about projects, so This is the most rewarding thing for us: to see that they themselves can demonstrate everything they are learning. with this disruptive education and learning through projects.”
Berger emphasized that “students develop different skills in their work teams; Maybe someone will have more skills for 3D designing, another for programming and will discover it in robotics school. This is very interesting because we keep in mind that students can come from 3 years without age limitwho will discover the areas of greatest interest to them and which also enable them later to acquire a basic knowledge and then continue their training in that line.’
“That means you can see something fundamental here programmingi enjoy that and then i study i can’t computer engineering as well as see something basic design and to say well, I do industrial design and so on with other fields,” said the technical coordinator of the Robotics School, which is constantly increasing both students and projects.
