Satbayev University's students have brought Kazakhstan a victory in SAF-2022 Robotics Festival

Thirteen schoolchildren from International Academy of Robotics, working within the walls of Satbayev University, brought 7 major awards they won as part STEAM Azerbaijan Festival 2022 and declared themselves to the whole world.

STEAM Azerbaijan Festival 2022 (Baku, December 4-10) is a grandiose festival in the world of innovation, which opened its doors to thousands of young specialists in robotics sphere from all over the world. Students and schoolchildren from Azerbaijan, Estonia, Sweden, Great Britain, Turkey competed in the contest in 10 nominations, and participated in the exhibition devoted to advanced innovative projects as well. Five teams from Kazakhstan became the sensation of the festival.

The academy students, who participated in the festival study in different schools of Almaty and are engaged in International Academy of Robotics under the leadership of Academy founder Thomas Lume. They adequately withstood the competition with 350 teams and more than 1300 participants who took part in the festival, having won 7 major trophies in VEX Robotics Competition festival’s main contest.

In addition, 1729X New Empire junior team won 2^nd place in the team work competition and 3^rd place in individual category, and another 1729K LSF junior team won 3^rd place in the team work contest and 2^nd place in individual category.

International observers were surprised by the extremely high level of Kazakhstani teams’ performances, and were also shocked to learn that this was achieved without any government support, and the trip costs were borne by the participants’ families.

International Academy of Robotics has been working at Polytech for a year. This is a unique project for the higher education system that gives talented students the opportunity to start an early career in engineering during their studies at school. Children from 5 to 17 years old study at Academy, they study mathematics in depth, build various robots and mechanisms, program and test them owing to powerful modern platforms such as Vex IQ and Vex V5. Academy founder, Thomas Noah Lume, has been working in Kazakhstan for more than 8 years. Satbayev University provides technical support to Academy.

Let us wish the guys new victories and new ideas in robotics development in Kazakhstan!