The President of the Republic, Tabaré Vázquez, visited the event and saw some of the projects presented by the students.
With the themes "Space and/or pollution" or "In orbit", the nearly 1750 students and 250 teachers developed their projects throughout the year to participate in the 2018 Olympiad at LATU.
The students who participated in this edition were between 6 and 18 years old and participated in the different categories. On the first day it was the turn of Programming, Drones Challenge, FIRST LEGO League and App Generation. On the second day they competed in Robotics, FIRST LEGO League Jr, Programmable Boards and repeated FIRST LEGO League and Drones Challenge.
This year there was also a tent where students who already work with micro:bit showed what they have created and also new programmable boards were distributed to students between 5th of Primary and 3rd of Secondary.
At the end of each day, prizes and mentions were awarded to the teams with outstanding works. Some were selected by the jury and others by the public, depending on each category.
The three winners of the FIRST LEGO League category obtained the possibility of participating in international Robotics tournaments. On the other hand, the 12 teams of the category that won a prize or mention will represent Uruguay in the first international OPEN tournament to be held for the first time in our country in May 2019.
To participate in the Olympiad, the teams work by projects, solving real life problems, integrating subjects related to science and technology, applying Computational Thinking.
With Computational Thinking, students learn logical reasoning, algorithmic thinking, and problem-solving techniques, all valuable concepts and skills for solving complex, real-world problems.
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