GENIUS Olympiad 2019 with five disciplines, including Robotics, has concluded in New York
Two 8th and 9th grade students from the Dushanbe-based private school named after Abdurahmon Jomi, Amirali Jourayev and Parviz Jourayev, have won the silver medal in the Robotic discipline, the project manager Firouz Nabiyev told Asia-Plus in an interview.
According to him, school students from more than 40 countries of the world participated in this discipline but Tajik students’ Fire Robot was recognized as one of the best in this disincline.
“Tajik students have received the Amazon Fire tablet as a reward each,” Nabiyev said.
It is to be noted that Tajik school students participated in the – GENIUS Olympiad Robotics discipline for the first time.
GENIUS Olympiad promotes a global understanding of environmental issues and the achievement of sustainability through basic science, arts, creative writing, engineering, design, and business development. GENIUS Olympiad provides challenges and opportunities for secondary school students, to instill in them the skills and knowledge needed to be the citizens, leaders, scientists, artists, writers, engineers, and policy makers of the future—agents who will promote and contribute to greater environmental sustainability throughout their lives. GENIUS is an abbreviation of Global Environmental Issues and us.
GENIUS Olympiad focuses on all aspects of global environmental issues with the following goals: to enable high school students around the world to cope with environmental problems, and to elicit their abilities to produce solutions; to inspire high school students to contribute to the protection and improvement of the environment; to equip young generations with environmental consciousness; to provide a forum for youth from around the world to come together and share ideas; and to inform the public about global environmental problems.
Genius Robotics is a student-centric competition which provides students understanding the role of engineering and research in environmental issues. Genius Robotics encourages students to discover novel solutions to known problems in the environment by requiring them to design, build, test and control their unique robots. It provides students with a lifetime experience and an opportunity to enhance their life skills such as being a team member, researching and problem-solving
