Representatives of Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic University are members of the jury of the regional stage of the All-Ukrainian competition of professional skills «WorldSkills Ukraine» in the competence «Mobile Robotics»
The 1st regional stage of the All-Ukrainian competition of professional skills «WorldSkills Ukraine» in the «Mobile Robotics» category among participants aged 12–14 was held at the Small Academy of Sciences of Student Youth «Science-Hub» of the Regional Educational Service.
Representatives of Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University were invited to the competent jury of the competition: associate professors of the Department of Electric Drive and Automation of Industrial Installations Olena Nazarova and Volodymyr Osadchy, as well as senior lecturer of the Department of Radio Engineering and Telecommunications Harry Moroz.
At the beginning of the event, the founder and director of the STEM center «Socrates» Serhiy Dzyuba held a master class on educational robotics based on the XRP platform. This educational robot helps teenagers master programming, engineering, and robotics through practical activities, combining learning with solving real engineering challenges.
During the competition, young roboticists had to independently assemble a mobile robot, develop a program for its movement along a route with turns of varying complexity, ensure accurate route tracking, and then implement an algorithm for automatically finding a free space in a parking lot and parking the robot correctly. This task is as close as possible to real engineering challenges in the field of autonomous transport systems, as it combines mechanical design, programming, working with sensors, and decision-making algorithms.
We sincerely thank the acting directors of Science Hub, Pavlo Dolgoruky and Anna Smirnova, for creating conditions for the development of young engineers, and Serhii Dzyuba for new knowledge, inspiration, and popularization of modern robotics among young people. We congratulate all participants on their new achievements and wish them further success on their path to conquering new engineering peaks!
