OR National Robotics Team with 21 members won the first in medals between European countries in 26th World Robotics Olympiad. The mission of the National Robotics Team returned to Greece last Wednesday afternoon (22.01) after its successful presence at South Koreawhere he won a total of 8 medals. A total of 60 teams from around the world participated in the competition. The national robotics team stood out, winning a gold medal and 7 Technical Awards. This excellent performance gave the Greek mission the top position among European countries.

In fact, the first high school student Nicholas Lemon It was he who won the gold medal in the class Tag outa race that included a combination of skills in the control and programming of the robot. (1 Person – 1 Robot).

Speaking on his radio SKAI and to Vasilis Koufopoulos On Monday night, 12 -year -old Nicholas said he had tried well enough to do so. “I was always involved with robotics because he liked my dad, but 2 years ago I started doing championships,” he said, saying he might not have been involved with robotics at school, but he did almost every day with his father’s lessons. at home.

Explaining about the race where he was distinguished, he said that in the tag out he had to make a robot that could move on a track, where there are large cubes that have to get off the track, while there are some other smaller cubes that The contestants should not touch. “In fact, we had to make a precision robot that would move the big cubes without touching the little ones.”

Asked if he had difficulty, he replied that “the process does not find it easy because it takes a lot of accuracy, but with proper preparation it is not difficult. “Personally I was preparing 6 hours a day in the last month. I didn’t go very much to the rest of the school lessons, I threw the weight on the robotics. Next year we will go to the next Olympiad that will take place in Australia and start preparing from now on. “

Finally, as Nicholas revealed besides robotics he likes to play football with his friends while doing piano.