19 teams of hub schools will take part in the IX International Festival of Robotics, Programming and Innovative Technologies “RoboLand 2024”, which will be held in Karaganda on March 29-30 at the Zhastar sports complex. Teams from schools participating in the project “Development of the Potential of Hub Schools in Rural Areas” were selected among two thousand schoolchildren from 1214 teams. A total of 164 teams have been admitted to the final, which will compete in 20 categories, including ROBOT MOUSE, Kegelring quadro X2, Assemble a robot, Tenge alu, Robogeometry, 3D prototyping, Mini football of controlled robots and others.
Last year, students from rural schools participated in all disciplines of the RoboLand 2023 festival and in all age categories, where three teams became winners and took prizes in some categories. The RoboLand festival is organized by the Department of Education of Karaganda region with the support of Kazdidac Association, sponsors and partners. The festival is being held for the ninth time in order to promote children’s scientific and technical creativity, popularize innovative activities and share best practices in the field of educational robotics.
The Potential Development of the Hub Schools in Rural Areas project was launched in 2022. It aims to reduce the education gap of the quality between rural and urban schools. The operator of the project was the Education Sustainable Development Fund (ESDF), the sponsors are the Kazakhstan Khalkyna Fund and the AITAS holding. At the expense of sponsors, the schools are completely updating the material and technical base. The general partner of the project is Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools AEO, which has taken over the academic part. Robotics classrooms, as well as other creative and scientific laboratories, are being equipped in each of the participating schools of the project.
