The Robot-Making Open Contest for Da Nang Senior High School Pupils (RoboDnic) has become popular in the city. It is a really best place to incubate talent in the fields of science and technology. It creates an ideal environment for high school pupils, who show a keen interest in these fields, to develop their creative ideas.

A prize-winning team in RoboDnic 2017

The contest was initiated in 2013 by the Young Creativity Club of the Da Nang Union of Science and Technology Associations, the municipal Department of Science and Technology, and the Phan Chau Trinh Senior High School’s Youth Union organisation.

The first contest attracted a total of over 100 pupils from 16 teams in Da Nang and Quang Nam Province. It took ‘Sacred Dragon Heading towards the Sea’ as its theme to mark the inauguration of the Rong (Dragon) Bridge.

Since then, the contest has been organised annually, and it has become an attractive and useful playground for the city’s tech-lovers.

Since 2015, the Department of Science and Technology and the Department of Education and Training have become organisers of RoboDnic.

Encouragingly, the contest has seen an increasing number of contestants from city and other localities over recent years.

Recently, official Facebook page of RoboDnic 2018 has published stories, comments, and images relating to this year’s contest and the preparations of contestants.

Themed ‘Lighthouse Shines the Future’, this year’s contest will take place at the gymnasium of the Le Quy Don Senior High School for Gifted Students from 17 - 19 August.

It will have over 200 pupils from 17 teams in Da Nang, 4 in Quang Nam Province, and 2 in Quang Ngai Province, participating.

Ms Vu Bich Hau, Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Science and Technology, said that the annual contest aims to offer the opportunity for high school pupils to satisfy their passion for developing robotic technology, and to help them practise their research and teamwork skills. In addition, many science and tech talents have been found in such contest.

According to Mr Huynh Phuoc, Vice Chairman of the city’s Union of Science and Technology Associations, the contest becomes the much- anticipated event for senior high school pupils in the city and elsewhere in the central regional. The contest helps pupils consolidate their confidence in creating their new technological products.