<b>On</b> December 2, the reporter learned at the press conference of the VEX Asian Open Elite Exchange Tournament that the 2021-2022 season, the VEX Robot Asian Open Elite Exchange Tournament will be held in Zhengzhou from April 3 to 5, 2022. The high school group and university group all-round award team of this competition are expected to win the opportunity to study in the top 100 universities in the world.
ZHOU Xin, commander-in-chief of the VEX Robot Asia Open Elite Exchange Competition, introduced that the competition adopts the "online + offline" dual event mode, the VEX Asian Open Elite Exchange Competition will be held offline in April next year, and the VEX Asian Open Skills Competition will be held online from December 24 this year to the end of January next year.
"The online competition adopts a single-team individual competition, and the outstanding champion teams can participate in the VEX Asian Open Elite Exchange Tournament and the Asian Open Finals without registration fees, and the organizing committee of the competition also sets up a player zone for the top 32 finalists in each event." Zhou Xin said that the coaches of the top 32 shortlisted teams in each competition can participate in the special coaching competition, and the organizing committee of the competition will award the title of gold coach to the champion of the coaching special competition and award the gold coach award.
It is worth noting that during the elite competition next year, the organizing committee of the competition will also hold a school-enterprise cooperation industry-university-research conference and a national university robot education alliance meeting, when xi'an Jiaotong University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, University of Science and Technology of China, Beijing University of Technology, Henan Polytechnic University and other more than 30 universities gathered in Zhengzhou to discuss and share artificial intelligence education development plans. In addition, the participating experts and scholars will come to the scene of the competition to observe and guide the work of the competition and give technical guidance to the participants.
VEX Robot Asian Open Secretary General, National University Robot Education Alliance Secretary General Shi Hongwei introduced, VEX Robot Asia Open is the way to advance to the VEX Robot World Championship, VEX Robot World Championship because of its wide coverage, large scale, large number of participants and other advantages, respectively, in 2016, 2018, 2021 3 times to refresh the Guinness World Record, known as the world's largest robot competition project.
It is understood that the National University Robot Education Alliance was established in 2017, and the current chairman unit of the alliance is Xi'an Jiaotong University, and the vice chairman units are Tongji University, Harbin Institute of Technology and other colleges and universities. In October 2018, the Chinese Intelligent Industry Development Alliance (AIIA) agreed to become the competent unit of the National University Robot Education Alliance, and appointed three representatives to the alliance, serving as vice presidents, directors and deputy secretaries-general, respectively, and AIIA also officially became the guiding unit of the VEX Robotics Asia Open.
Editor-in-charge: Yang Zhiying | Review: Li Zhen | Director: Wan Junwei