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• Tournament of Two Capitals: Promoting Robotics To The Young

  The second Tournament of Two Capitals, a robotics competition that brings together school students from St. Petersburg and Moscow, has recently taken place at ITMO University. Select teams from Russia’s two capitals competed in four categories, as well as the secret “Fifth Element” challenge. This time, the perpetual trophy went to Moscow. ITMO.NEWS learned how the competition contributes to promoting robotics and how different teams train for it.

  19.12.2017

• Tournament of Two Capitals: Schoolkids Show Off Robotics Skills at Regionals

  The regional qualifying stage of the "Tournament of the Two Capitals", a robotics competition for schoolchildren, took place in St. Petersburg on November 26. More than a hundred teams built autonomous robots, which raced on a “highway”, built bridges, balanced on a swing and played "King of the Hill". On the same day, a regional qualifying stage of T2C was also held in Moscow. Teams that showed the best results in both cities will meet in mid-December at the tournament’s finals at ITMO University.

  28.11.2017

• Tournament of Two Capitals - Participants Share

  Last weekend in Moscow, the Tournamentof Two Capitals robotic contest came to the end. School students competed in four categories and the final assignment, where their robots had to climb mountains, race against each other, build bridges and ride seesaws. For each participant, the contest was something different: for some, robotics has already become a usual pastime, others got their first chance to prove that they really can construct and program autonomous machines. In an interview with our newsportal, the students shared about why they chose to do robotics, what is most difficult about it and what did the tournament mean to them.

  16.05.2017