Bahrain to hold Robotics festival

Manama : Supreme Council for Youth and Sports (SCYS) First Deputy Chairman and Bahrain Athletics Association (BAA) Chairman His Highness Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al-Khalifa issued directives to hold Bahrain Robotics Festival 2018.

The festival will include both the Bahrain VEX Competition, the Bahrain national event, and the World Robot Olympiad (WRO LEG).

“Our aim is to promote programmes that encourage the youth to engage in research and keep abreast of modern technologies,” he said.

Shaikh Khalid said that the planned robotic festival would be based on the interdisciplinary and applied approach - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).