A trio of students from the Philippines has made their country proud as they bag the highly-coveted bronze medal from the recently concluded world robotics competition—the 2023 VEX Robotics World Championship—which was held in Dallas, Texas.
Making up the Arrowhead Robotics team, Alonso Pioquinto, Gian Caismiro, and Jio Hernandez, bested other teams in the Research Division but ultimately landed in third place.
A highly-anticipated event in the field of robotics, the 2023 VEX Robotics World Championship is regarded as the world’s biggest competition and is participated by 800 teams from 70 nations across the globe.
To earn the right to be considered the representative of their own respective countries, more than 4,600 teams have to compete with one another through the entire season of the 2022-23 VEX IQ MS Robotics.
Per the VEX Robotics official website, the competition’s central theme is to “Bring STEM Skills to Life”—encompassing all the essential elements that aid in all the students’ eventual identification as STEM learners and as future innovators.
VEX Robotics sees every student as a natural scientist and engineer who likes to question things, tinker, experiment, and play, traits that it believes could be cultivated in competitions.