Int’l Robotics Challenge: Bangladeshi students win 6 medals in S Korea
Three Bangladeshi students won six medals, including a gold and a bronze, in the Robo Scholar Challenge Category of the International Robot D Challenge in South Korea.
The three-member Bangladesh team winning the medals at the two-day event is a prestigious achievement for the country, said Dr Lafifa Jamal, president of Bangladesh Robot Olympiad.
Rafihath Saleh Chowdhury, student of Jalalabad Cantonment English School and College in Sylhet, won the gold medal on Saturday, while the other two -- Quazi Mostahid Labib and Tafsir Tahrim, students of Chittagong Grammar School (Dhaka) -- won technical awards in the same category.
About 500 students from across the globe participated in the competition.
Yesterday, the second and final day of the event, Labib won a bronze medal, while his two teammates won two technical awards.
The Technical Award is for the fourth position after gold, silver and bronze, which is also important in such an event, said Lafifa, also the chairperson of the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at Dhaka University.
She said Bangladesh achieved tremendous results in the Robot D Challenge as this was the first time the country participated in the competition.
“Our young stars are very creative and that’s why they did a fantastic job over there,” said Lafifa.
Labib and Tahrim were the first Bangladeshis to win gold medals at the International Robot Olympiad last year. This is the second such international success for the country, Lafifa added.
She further said that Bangladesh will partake in the 21st international Robot Olympiad to be held in Thailand from December 16 to 20 this year. The achievements from the Robot D Challenge will give a moral boost to the Bangladesh team.
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