Finalist at the fourth edition of the international Global Junior Challenge [1] competition and winner of the President of the Republic Award [2] reserved for Italian schools, the A Robot to Study – A Robot to Play [3] Project, designed by the Istituto Superiore per l’Informatica Von Neumann [4], also received the Special Sisal Prize on April 2^nd. This is valuable recognition to a team that is preparing for two new challenges: the RomeCup2008 in July and the RobCup2008 in China.

With its project the Istituto Von Neumann proves how robotics [5] can be successfully integrated in school programmes not only to learn how to design and program robots, but also as a method for teaching reasoning and experimentation. Sisal, which is particularly attentive to all that happens in the gaming world, has presented an award to the work of a school that moulds creativity, fun and innovation.
 

Special Sisal Award

Rome, 2 aprile 2008, 11.30 am

Istituto Von Neumann, via Pollenza 115

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