Korean teenagers participate in the world's largest robot competition 'FIRST Tech Challenge'

오재경OhJaeGyung
14 Mar 2024


A total of 45 teams, including Japanese teams, participated under the auspices of the Creative Engineering Education Association (Chairman Do Kyung-min), a domestic partner of the U.S. First Foundation, and the Korean national team was selected through the "2023-2024 Korea Robot Championship," which was held successfully at the Daejeon Convention Center on January 27, to compete in the world competition "FIRST Tech Challenge."

The Korea Robot Championship is the Korean competition of the U.S. FIRST Foundation 'FIRST Tech Challenge', the world's largest robot competition involving 700,000 students from 110 countries around the world. In this competition, the Uncheon High School 'TC' team will participate in the world championship 'FIRST Tech Challenge' in Houston, U.S. from April 17 to 20 this year, along with the Korean Science Gifted School 'TALOS' team, which won the first place overall.

The TC team, which won the first place overall, participated in the Korea Robot Championship through the KLA Foundation scholarship program. A world leader in process control and support solutions for the semiconductor and electronics industries, KLA is providing opportunities to grow into a convergence talent with STEM convergence technology and software capabilities by selecting a scholarship team for middle and high schools in Hwaseong, Suwon, and Pyeongtaek and providing free education for robot materials and free education required to participate in the 'FIRST Tech Challenge'.

Jen Shea, Executive Director of the KLA Foundation, said, "I am proud of the KLA Foundation scholarship teams who create their own creative robots with the spirit of challenge and enthusiasm and enjoy their results through the Korea Robot Championship. I am happy that more schools and students participate in KLA's convergence talent development program every year, and I hope that students will grow into talented people with global perspectives and professions along with creative problem-solving skills through the KLA Foundation scholarship program, and I hope that they can work together at KLA in the future."

The Korea Creative Engineering Education Association, as the official partner of the FIRST Foundation in the United States, is leading the development of a total of 15,000 students from 1,800 teams into creative convergence talents with leadership through the FIRST Robot Championship for 14 years from 2011. In addition, through the scholarship program, our youth are interested in STEM and are providing opportunities to learn how to systematically solve problems along with writing research journals and teamwork in the process of preparing for the competition.


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