The fifth National Robotics Championship will take place in Krasnoyarsk on April 5-7. Potential participants are welcome to sign up on the official website  until March 1 depending on the category. The winners of one of them will be granted participation in the Technoxian World Championship held in India.

More than 100 teams have registered for the competitions at the moment. Robotics enthusiasts from the Sverdlovsk, Novosibirsk, Kaliningrad, Irkutsk, Rostov, Krasnodar and Perm Regions, the Republics of Sakha-Yakutia, Buryatia and Chuvashia are all set to come to Krasnoyarsk. In total, more than 500 teams from throughout the Russian Federation are expected to take part. Regional qualifying stages are currently taking place across the country. Competitions within the championship are organized in 11 categories among those aged 4 to 22 years.

Among the nominations are both formats for beginners and competitions for experienced young engineers. The general theme of the competition is "Treasures of the Depths". Children will learn about what minerals are, what kinds of them there are, how they are mined, how they are stored, transported and used.

In addition, the championship site will host autonomous robot competitions, as well as the first phygital competitions in Russia in robo-bowling and robo-curling.

A separate area will be partner competitions of the En+ Group developed on the basis of the educational project "Energy in Every Drop," aimed at studying the principles of hydroelectric power plant operation. For example, the participants will have to find new technical solutions for the construction, operation or maintenance of hydroelectric power stations.

As part of the National Robotics Championship, international competitions Technoxian titled "SuperLine", and "SuperTrack" will also take place. Teams of the most senior participants will create their own autonomous robots, capable of achieving maximum speed on a given track and reaching their destination in the minimum time. The team will also have to defend their creations in front of expert jury. The winners will receive the right to participate in the Technoxian World Championship, which will be held in India.

— One of the main objectives of the Championship is to identify and support talented youth in the field of technical creativity, maintaining conditions for the development of engineering thinking through design and research activities. Based on the experience of participating in such competitions in other countries, for example, India, we can confidently say that business representatives are always interested in the proposals of young inventors. After all, any prototype put into practice begins with an idea, – said Maxim Turushev, director of the Autonomous Non-Profit Organization "Engineers of the Future."

The Krasnoyarsk non-profit organization Robotics Laboratory "Engineers of the Future" has been the main organiser and operator of the Championship since 2019. The event is organised with the support of the Krasnoyarsk City Administration.

— The Federal Robotics Championship is a very important event for Krasnoyarsk, not only as part of supporting talented children; it is also a major career guidance effort. The project is also interesting from the point of view of developing and replicating the successful practices of our non-profit organizations. After all, the operator of this annual event in 2019 was "Engineers of the Future", who have trained several generations of successful roboticists. The organization has grown to the level of carrying out federal projects from an ordinary hobby club at school. Now they annually hold national championships throughout Russia. It began its history in Krasnoyarsk, then passed through Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, Yekaterinburg and returned to our city again, – noted Mayor of Krasnoyarsk Vladislav Loginov..

More information can be found on the  official website.

The youngest participants of the championship, children aged 4 to 6, will get to know the basics of STEAM. This technology involves the acquisition of knowledge and the ability to apply it in practice, combining science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics. Teams will work on tasks, assembling models from construction kit parts.

Older children aged 6-9 years, as part of the Research League, will become familiar with the basics of engineering and will learn to design and program.

Participants aged 9-14 will take part in the friendly competition League of Solutions, where teams will develop an innovative project aimed at solving real-world problems.

Young people aged 14-22 years will compete in the Technology League. Teams will have to model, design and programme a robot to play on the field. This needs to be done with the involvement of mentors, other teams and participants.

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