A total of 45 finalist teams, comprised of more than 250 participants from Castile and León, Madrid, Galicia, and Cantabria, will compete for nearly seven hours to demonstrate their robotics skills by overcoming 12 challenges designed by the R&D team at ASTI Mobile Robotics. The participants will be divided into two categories: 37 teams from 10th grade (4th year of Secondary School), high school, and vocational training programs, and 8 teams from Spanish universities.
The aim of this free competition is none other than to develop STEM talent and empower the next generation of leaders in the field of collaborative mobile robotics. Adopting Project-Based Learning and the maker (Do It Yourself) culture as their methodological approach, participants have built their own mobile robots, shared their projects on social media, and will compete in the final tournament on Saturday.
Twenty-four referees and more than 100 volunteers will make this event possible, which is expected to draw over 1,500 people between 9:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. this Saturday. Alongside the official competition, a "robotsumo" league will be held in collaboration with the La Caixa Foundation and the "Multiple Intelligences and High Abilities of Castile and León" Association (IMACCYL), featuring 12 teams made up of gifted students.  
Ana Belda, Country Manager of RS Components, commented: “It has been a great pleasure to collaborate on this second edition of ASTI, as well as an excellent opportunity to reinforce our commitment to awakening the talent of new generations and investing in the latest technologies, which are already changing the world we live in. We hope that initiatives like this will become increasingly common to promote innovation and creativity in our young people; ultimately, they are our future!”

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