2023 Edition of the PW Mechatronics, Automatics and Robotics Competition

1.03.2023 between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. check out the Competition website!

Mechatronics is a course for the creative and ambitious, but above all for the hard-working. So if you are not afraid to try your hand at such fields as mechanics, machine construction and operation, electronics, computer science, automation and robotics or biomedical engineering, Mechatronics will certainly be the perfect choice for you. Finding a job for graduates is not a problem. Earning opportunities are also what attracts the ambitious to Narbutta. The main problem, then, is joining the ranks of our students. And this is where we come to your aid - we invite you to take part in the competition.

Rules and regulations of the PW Mechatronics, Automation and Robotics Competition - Edition 2023:

Chapter 1 Introduction

§ 1 The Competition in Mechatronics, Automation and Robotics of the Warsaw University of Technology for secondary school students (hereinafter referred to as the Competition) is organised by the Faculty of Mechatronics of the Warsaw University of Technology. The venue of the Competition is the seat of the Faculty of Mechatronics of Warsaw University of Technology.

§ The Competition is a knowledge tournament, it is open to secondary school students from all over Poland. Under-age participants must have the consent of their parents/legal guardians to participate in the Competition.

§ 3 The aim of the Competition is to encourage secondary school students, especially those from classes earlier than secondary school graduation, to broaden their technical knowledge and have an open attitude towards solving problems in broadly defined mechatronics, including automation and robotics. It is also important to develop the ability to work in a team, to cooperate in solving a given task.

§ (4) The purpose of the competition is to select from among the participants a group of winners with a high ability to solve tasks, people who are able to quickly assimilate and implement knowledge, and who are able to work in a group and make decisions.

§ 5 The competition is organised on an annual basis, starting with the school/academic year 2015/2016, with a break during the Pandemic period. Subsequent editions are numbered consecutively from the year in which the final takes place. The 6th edition of the Competition is held in 2023.

§ 6 The authorities of the Competition are the Competition Committee and the Committee Chairman, appointed by the Dean of the Faculty of Mechatronics. The tasks of the Committee are to formulate the general rules of the Competition and to give opinions on matters indicated by the Chairman. After the end of each edition of the Competition, the Chairman submits a report on its progress and results to the Faculty Council.

§ 7. The Committee shall develop the tasks/questions for the Competition, evaluate their performance and announce the results obtained by the students in all stages.

Chapter 2 General Course of the Competition

§ 1 The Competition is a two-stage event: it involves preliminary qualifications and a final stage.

§ 2. The Competition Committee may decide to invite laureates of other competitions organised at district levels, and outstanding laureates of selected competitions of other competitions to participate in the final stage. Invited persons must meet the requirements set out in chap. 1 par. 2.

§ 3. Participants of the final stage agree to the publication of their image and lack of consent must be notified in writing to the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Mechatronics prior to the competition.

Chapter 3 Test phase

§ 1 The test stage of the Competition will be conducted in a remote form and will consist of solving a test in the form of an online form on the MS Forms platform.

§ 2. The form will be made available on 01 March 2023 from 18:00 to 20:00 at:

https://www.mchtr.pw.edu.pl/Kandydaci/konkurs

§ 3 The results of the test stage are the basis for qualifying a participant to the final stage of the Competition. Those persons who have obtained more than half of the average score of the best three participants will be qualified for the final stage, but not more than 50 persons.

Chapter 4 Final stage

§ 1 The final stage will be held at the Department's headquarters on 01 April 2023. It will be conducted in the form of an online gamification. Participants are required to bring an electronic device (smartphone/tablet/computer) equipped with a web browser and internet access.

§ The results of the final stage of the Competition will be announced on the Department's website and communicated in the form of notices to the schools whose students participated in the Competition Finals.

Chapter 5 Announcement of Competition Results and Prizes

§ 1 The order of places in the final stage of the Competition is determined by the number of points obtained in it. In the event that several participants obtain the same number of points, the Competition Committee may award a place to more than one person.

§ 2 The group of 12 participants with the best results obtained in the Competition Finals shall be awarded the title of "Laureate". The Laureates will receive appropriate diplomas, and in addition the winners ranked 1st, 2ndand 3rd in the Competition will receive prizes in kind.

§ 3 The ceremony of the announcement of the full results and the awarding of prizes will be held in the Building of the Faculty of Mechatronics of Warsaw University of Technology, which is located in Warsaw at 8 A. Boboli Street.

Chapter 6 General Provisions

§ 1 The provisions of the Rules and Regulations are valid in the current state of the law, changes in this state may result in amendments to some points of the Rules and Regulations.

§ 2 Pursuant to Resolution 283/XLIX/2018 of 19/12/2018 of the Senate of the Warsaw University of Technology, the laureates of the MAiR Competition may be admitted outside the qualification procedure to first-cycle degree programmes in the following fields of study

Automatics and robotics, as well as Mechatronics at PW Mechatronics Faculty, as well as Applied Automatics and Robotics studies at Electrics Faculty.

§ 3. The personal data of participants and parents/legal guardians consenting to the participation of minors in the competition shall be processed in accordance with the principles stated in the published Information Clause on the Processing of Personal Data.

Chairman of the PW Mechatronics, Automatics and Robotics Competition

Sergiusz Łuczak, prof. Uczelni, PhD, BEng, Competition Committee

Igor Ostrowski, PhD

Tomasz Kowaluk, PhD, BEng

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