Description :
We are a group of Undergraduate students from The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, The City University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and The Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education. We have been designing and developing robots in our secondary school for six years. We played a pioneer role since the robotics technology and competition first introduced into the Hong Kong secondary school. We have won many prizes over different types of robot soccer competitions, robot life saver events and game design and development competitions. About a year ago, we setup a robotic educational company, and provide a wide range of courses on innovative robot design, practical robot development, educational game and robot building, and smartphone game development.
Over the past years, we have found out that there is enormous expansion both in the schools robotic education and after-school activities in the primary, secondary and tertiary education all over the world. In fact, Hong Kong teenagers are played a key role in the world’s robotic promotion and development stage. We beat the participates from US, Japan, and Germany to became the champions in World RoboCup and Dancing Competition held every year in selected countries. However, there are problems aroused and encountered in the Hong Kong schools when promoting robotic education among the students:
(1) The knowledge in design and development of robots lost after the students graduated from the school. Therefore new comers and the teacher found it difficult to further promote robotic education in the school;
(2) The cost of buying new components for robot building are getting expensive over these years, but the robot wore out year by year at the end of every year, as they have to participate in many competition and exchange camps.
(3) They lack of space to test their design and new ideas, and also, the rules are renewed and updated every year, the students are not getting the latest information and rules on robot buildings.
(4) The resources are limited, for every school can only afford to buy a few set of robots for promotion, education, training and competition. Therefore, not every participating student has the chance to test run on the real robots.