During 2024 Sandooq Al Watan will embrace sustainable innovation. Sustainable innovation refers to the creation and implementation of new products, processes, and business models that meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It involves considering the environmental, social, and economic impacts of innovations over their entire lifecycle, and seeking to minimize harm while maximizing benefits. To that end, this year's Mubarmij50 competition themes, Inspire, Spark, Starter, Explorer and Challenge each attempt to solve challenges related to sustainability and the environment
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Note : The Mubarmij Spark competition is going to feature an open theme, and participants have the liberty to select any of the subthemes related to "Infinite Life" as indicated in the guidelines. The contestants are allowed to prepare their projects in advance and just present them on the day of the competition.
Mubarmij50 Starter is a multi-tasking competition program for elementary school students aged 6-13.
The competition integrates the automatic stage and the manual stage, which greatly enhances fun and participation experience of the competition. The concept of multiple missions and the alliance cooperation design fully exercises the abilities of critical thinking and strategic planning of contestants, as well as improve the ability of communication and cooperation between alliance teams.
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Mubarmij50 Explorer is a confrontational competition program for elementary and junior high school students aged 8-15.
This program fully integrates the essence of sports events and is highly interesting and a delight to watch. The competition requires the contestants to design and build robots from scratch, which systematically develops the contestants’ comprehensive abilities in robot design, mechanical construction, and programming. Also, the form of alliance confrontation improves the contestants’ ability to solve imperative problems and strategic thinking.
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MakeX Challenge is a highly confrontational competition program for middle and vocational school students aged 11-18.
This program is very confrontational and enjoyable to watch, and the simple and easy-to-understand rules enhance the overall experience of participation and engagement. The design and construction of bigger robots and programming can better improve the contestants’ design abilities and multi-dimensional thinking abilities of advanced robots. Also, the contestants are exercising logical thinking, strategic analysis, communication and cooperation, and improving decision-making abilities in the competition.
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MakeX Challenge is a highly confrontational competition program for middle and vocational school students aged 18-24.
This program is very confrontational and enjoyable to watch, and the simple and easy-to-understand rules enhance the overall experience of participation and engagement. The design and construction of bigger robots and programming can better improve the contestants’ design abilities and multi-dimensional thinking abilities of advanced robots. Also, the contestants are exercising logical thinking, strategic analysis, communication and cooperation, and improving decision-making abilities in the competition.
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2022-2023 MakeX Inspire is a STEAM activity for kids that are at the age of 4-7. The theme of the activity is Fruit Wonderland. As the new industry that combines traditional agriculture and artificial intelligence, smart agriculture not only improves the efficiency of farming, but also solves the problems of pests and environmental damage. In the future, the robot will act as the best helper for farmers to catch pests and collecting fruits. We believe that the farmland will surely be better under the development of science and technology.
MakeX Inspire is a multi-task, single player event that requires the kid to complete the entire activity alone. Parents are not directly involved in the activity, but they are responsible for paying attention to the official notice of the activity and supervising the safe operation of the kids during the activity; At the same time, the staff will assist the kids to put the state MakeX Inspire Fruit Wonderland of the model props and record the task score. The activity is divided into two tasks, with a total length of 7 minutes. The first 4 minutes is the mission of catching pests, and the second 3 minutes is the mission of transporting fruits. The kid needs to use the coding card to program the route instruction on the spot, antiesthetic-pen-controller to control the robot to move on the specific map, to plan the optimal path to complete the task as far as possible to obtain the task score. MakeX Inspire aims to Inspire children's interest in programming learning, improve their multiple intelligence, exercise their ability to think independently and build their confidence in learning through interesting robot.
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