Chinese team wins robotics competition

At the 2024 FIRST Global Challenge, a robotics competition hosted from Sept 26 to 29 in Athens, Greece, the China team comprising students from several Beijing secondary schools became part of the FIRST Global Winning Alliance alongside Moldova, Madagascar and the Cook Islands.

This is the second consecutive year the China team won the FIRST Global Winning Alliance. The team also won Bronze at the Albert Einstein Award for FIRST Global International Excellence and Bronze at the FIRST Global Grand Challenge Award.

The international competition reached its eighth edition, hosted by United States-based nonprofit public charity FIRST Global each year in a different country. Students worldwide compete in teams and program a robot to complete various tasks.

Themed "Feeding the Future", this year's competition invited teenagers from more than 190 countries and regions to address the global issue of sustainable food production.

Students on the China team competed in 18 matches over three rounds. In addition to competing, they engaged in cultural exchanges with teams from other countries and posted on social media platforms to introduce Chinese culture.