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The Faculty of Mechatronics at the Warsaw University of Technology is pleased to announce the next edition of the Mechatronics Automation and Robotics Competition.
Our competition is aimed at all secondary school students who like solving technical problems, who can think outside the box and who can assimilate knowledge quickly. That is, for future Mechatronic engineers.
Winners of the Competition may be admitted, outside the qualification procedure, to first degree studies in the fields of Automation and Robotics and Mechatronics at the Faculty of Mechatronics of the Warsaw University of Technology.
Plan of the 2024 edition:
- Stage 1: 8 March 2024
- Stage 2 (final): 22 March 2024
Regulations of the PW Mechatronics, Automation and Robotics Competition - Edition 2024
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 seat of the Competition is the seat of the Faculty of Mechatronics of Warsaw University of Technology.
§ The Competition is a knowledge competition, it is open to secondary school students from all over Poland. Under-age participants must have the consent (link) of their parents/legal guardians to participate in the Competition.
§ 3. The purpose 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-minded approach to solving problems in broadly defined mechatronics, including automation and robotics.
§ 4 The competition is intended to select from among the participants a group of laureates with a high ability to solve tasks, people who are able to quickly assimilate and implement knowledge, and who are able to make decisions.
§ 5. The competition is organised in an annual cycle, starting from the school/academic year 2015/2016. Subsequent editions are numbered consecutively from the year in which the final is held.
§ 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 include formulating the general rules of the Competition and giving opinions on matters indicated by the Chairman. After the end of each edition of the Competition, the Chairperson submits a report on its progress and results to the Faculty Council.
§ 7 The Committee prepares the tasks/questions for the Competition, evaluates their performance and announces 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 ROBOMATICON competition to participate in the final stage. Invited persons must meet the requirements presented in ch. 1 par. 2.
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 8 March 2024 from 18:00 to 20:00 at the following address: link
§ 3. Wyniki etapu testowego są podstawą do zakwalifikowania uczestnika do etapu finałowego Konkursu. Do finału zakwalifikowane będą osoby, które uzyskały powyżej połowy średniej liczby punktów trzech najlepszych uczestników, nie więcej jednak niż 40 osób.
Chapter 4 Final stage
§ 1 The final stage will be held at the Division's headquarters on 22 March 2024. It will be conducted in written form.
§ 2. 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
§ The order of places in the final stage of the Competition shall be determined by the number of points obtained therein. In the event that several participants obtain the same number of points, the Competition Committee may award a place to more than one person.
§ A group of no more than 13 participants with the best results obtained in the Competition Finals, considered satisfactory by the Competition Committee, shall be awarded the title of "Laureate". Laureates shall be awarded appropriate diplomas.
§ 3 The ceremony of announcing the full results will take place at the Building of the Faculty of Mechatronics, Warsaw University of Technology, which is located at 8 A. Boboli St. 02-525 Warsaw.
§ 4. The final theses will be kept by the Department.
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. On the basis of Resolution 391/L/2023 of 28 June 2023 of the Senate of the Warsaw University of Technology, the laureates of the MAiR Competition who meet the applicable recruitment requirements may be admitted outside the qualification procedure to first-cycle studies in the fields of Robotics and Industrial Informatics and Mechatronics at the Faculty of Mechatronics of the Warsaw University of Technology, as well as in the field of Applied Automation and Robotics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology and in all fields of study at the Faculty of Physics of the Warsaw University of Technology.
§ 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 (link) on the processing of personal data.
§ 4. On matters pertaining to the contest, please contact us at konkurs.mair@pw.edu.pl
Chairmen of the Contest of
Mechatronics, Automatics and Robotics of PW
Sergiusz Łuczak, Prof.Tit., PhD, BEng
