Bangladesh 174 countries participating in the more than five weeks in the FIRST Global Challenge (FGC), a foreign robotics festival held for top school students.
The Bangladeshi team will have to remain in position for another five weeks until the winner of the 2020 FGC.
FGC is the largest robotics festival for the best students in the school. It aims to motivate other young people around the world to follow STEM education and facilitate learning. Every year, other young people around the world gather at FGC to express their passionate pastime in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Last year in Dubai, Bangladesh ranked seventh in the competition.
This year, however, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the contest is taking an online position.
“The Bangladesh team has maintained a strong first rating for more than five weeks from September 2, 2020,” Bangladesh team mentor Shams Jaber said in a statement.
FIRST Global Challenge is known as the high school equivalent of the Robot Olympics, with the participation of almost each and every country in the world.
Bangladesh has been participating in the FIRST Global Challenge since its inception in 2017, he said.
The Bangladesh team took the lead, moving a lot of firsts to finish seventh out of 190 countries at the FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai.
Every year, other young people with a STEM hobby are challenged to solve some of the most demanding situations facing the land and its others, adding the 14 demanding primary engineering situations, he added.
In 2019, the Ocean Opportunities Challenge, to highlight the risk posed by pollutants to Earth’s oceans, the Bangladeshi team came out of the tournament in the quarter-finals.
This year’s Bangladesh team includes Sujoy Mahmud of Mangrove School, 17; Razeen Ali, 18, from Sir John Wilson School; Mahi Zarif, 16, school of hope; Shahrear Shemanto, 16, de DPS STS; Abrar Jawad, 15, de Bangladesh International School and College; Aymaan Rahman, 15, de Bangladesh International School and College; Bianca Hassan, 19, Dhanmondi; Zahraa Chowdhury, 14, of Sunbeams; Areebah Anwar, 14, de South Breeze; and Mastermind’s Fairooz Hafiz Farin, 18, with lead mentor Shams Jaber, technical mentor Shoaib Mirza and Fardin Ananta as assistant mentor.
The theme for 2020 is to link communities, so demanding situations aim to integrate social and cultural elements into STEM creativity and innovation, making them more complete.