On the afternoon of August 20, at the Regular Press Conference organized by the Propaganda Department of the Quang Ninh Provincial Party Committee, a representative of the Organizing Committee of the Asia-Pacific Robocon Competition (ABU Robocon) 2024 said that from August 23 to 27, the ABU Robocon 2024 competition will be held at the Quang Ninh Sports Complex, Dai Yen Ward, Ha Long City, Quang Ninh Province.
ABU Robocon is organized annually by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, a playground for students with a passion for robots from countries and territories in the Asia-Pacific region.
Quang Ninh Sports Complex, Dai Yen Ward, Ha Long City, Quang Ninh Province - the venue for the 2024 Asia-Pacific Robocon Competition (ABU Robocon).
The 2024 competition, themed “Harvest Days,” aims to honor the value of agriculture, especially rice cultivation on terraced fields – a characteristic of Vietnamese culture. Participating robots will perform tasks simulating the rice growing process, from sowing to harvesting.
ABU Robocon 2024 has the participation of 13 teams from 12 countries and territories, with 350 contestants from countries and territories including: Japan, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Mongolia. Malaysia, Nepal, Egypt, Cambodia and Vietnam. Of which, Vietnam has 2 representative teams: SKH AUTOMATION and SKH - CK1 from Hung Yen University of Technical Education.
The competition is expected to attract 2,000 spectators, 200 cheerleaders (students of Ha Long University) and people watching at the Sports Complex of Quang Ninh province.
In addition to the official matches, the organizers will organize many attractive sideline activities, such as exchanging and sharing knowledge about programming, robot construction and tours to Ha Long Bay heritage...
"Up to this point, the work related to organizing and preparing for the competition has been carefully carried out by VTV and Quang Ninh province," emphasized the representative of the Organizing Committee.
Scene of the Regular Press Conference organized by the Propaganda Department of Quang Ninh Provincial Party Committee on the afternoon of August 20, 2024. Photo: VP
The entire ABU Robocon 2024 competition at Quang Ninh Sports Complex on August 25 will be broadcast live on VTV2 channel of Vietnam Television.
Explaining the choice of the contest theme as “Harvest Day”, the representative of the Organizing Committee said that for thousands of years, rice has been closely associated with the Vietnamese people. Rice not only brings prosperity but also becomes a beautiful feature in the cultural and spiritual life of the Vietnamese people. Nowadays, rice is both an important food source and a strategic export item of Vietnam.
Among them, there is a unique form of farming in the traditional agricultural activities of people living in the highlands of Vietnam, which is terraced fields. People will choose hillsides and mountains to create flat land to cultivate rice seedlings and grow rice. The purpose of terraced fields is to prevent erosion, improve and protect the soil.
The highlight of terraced fields is that during the harvest season from about June to October, the mountain slopes are like “an artistic painting” carved into the mountains and forests by farmers. The terraced fields are not only beautiful but also the “rice granary” of the highland people, by relying on natural conditions to exploit and cultivate effectively, bringing a prosperous life…
At the ABU Robocon 2023 competition, the Vietnamese team won third prize and the excellent technical award at ABU Robocon 2023.
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