List of Robotics Competitions in 2021/2022 - Singapore
What's the best way to improve yourself?
By meeting and competing with others in your field! Regardless of whether you win or lose, both sides gain precious learning experiences by being exposed to different strategies, techniques and new challenges.
To help the budding roboticists out there (teachers & coaches included), we've compiled a list of competitions and events you can participate in to hone your robotics skills and experience.
(Scroll to the bottom for a summary list)
1) National Robotics Competition (NRC)
Registration Period: Aug - Sep 2021
Status: Ongoing / Virtual
For more info: www.nrc.sg
Age Group: 7 - 17 years old
NRC is the largest competition event in Singapore when it comes to robotics. It is a Singapore Science Centre event that boasts multiple competitions and categories within the same event.
Events Included:
- World Robotics Olympiad (WRO) - Regular
- WRO - WeDo Regular
- WRO - Future Engineers
- CoderZ Coding Challenge (Virtual Robotics)
Events have sub-categories according to the participants' age groups: Primary/Secondary/Tertiary
2) FIRST LEGO League (FLL)
Registration Period: Aug - Sep 2021
Status: Upcoming
For more info: http://www.firstlegoleague.sg/
Age Group: 5 - 17 years old
DSA Programs
Many schools with robotics and STEM niche take FLL competitions very seriously and doing well in the competition can land potential applicants a successful placement in the school via the Direct School Admission route.
Here is a DSA program for robotics-focused schools in Singapore: https://www.youngengineers.sg/robotics-dsa/
Private FLL Competitions
Note: You can run intra-school or inter-school FLL competitions during off-peak seasons to build your students confidence too!
Duck Learning is an exclusive partner of LEGO Education in Singapore who are licensed to run FLL-based events for your school.
Drop us an email at learn@ducklearning.com
3) Robotics Innovation Challenge
Registration Period: December 2021
Status: Upcoming / Virtual & Physical
For more info: https://www.nus-datathon.com/robotics-innovation-challenge
Age Group: 8 - 15 years old
Categories:
- Grand Arena Technical Competitions (Offline)
- Innovation Design Challenges (Online)
4) Singapore VEX Challenge
Registration Period: February
Status: Ended
Link: https://www.robotevents.com/robot-competitions/vex-robotics-competition/RE-VRC-21-3687.html
Age Group: Any age
5) Science & Technology Challenge
Registration Period: June - July
Status: Ongoing / Virtual
Link: https://www.facebook.com/ScienceAndTechnologyChallenge/
Age Group:
- Category 1 Rescue Ranger
- Category 2 Cybersecurity and Digitalization
- Category 3 Build your dream aircraft
- Category 4 Walking Robot
- Category 5 Energy Harvester
- Category 6 AI & Data
6) Singapore Robotic Games
Registration Period: TBC (Nov - Dec)
Status: Upcoming
For more info: http://guppy.mpe.nus.edu.sg/srg/
Age Group: 5 & above
Categories:
- Open Category
- Legged Robot Marathon Race
- Wall Climbing Robot Competition
- RC Sumo Robot Competition
- Autonomous Sumo Robot Competition
- Picomouse Competition
- Underwater Robot Competition
- Humanoid Robot Competition
- Junior Autonomous Sumo Robot Competition
- Junior RC Sumo Robot Competition
7) Singapore AUV Challenge
Registration Period: August - September
Status: Upcoming
For more: https://sauvc.org/#competition
Age Group: 16 & above
The Singapore AUV Challenge is the largest underwater robotics competition organised by the National University of Singapore (NUS)
8) Asia Pacific Youth Robotics Competition
Registration Period: April - May
Status: Hiatus/Last Event in 2019
For more info: https://www.apyrc.com/ OR Facebook Page
Age Group: 8 - 17 years old
9) National Robotics Programming Competition
Registration Period: March - April
Status: Hiatus/Last Event in 2019
Link: https://sites.google.com/a/moe.edu.sg/nrpc2019/
10) Innovation, Design & Engineering (IDE) Series Challenge
Registration Period: March - April
Status: Hiatus/Last Event in 2019
Link: https://ideseries.org/ide2021/
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Summary List:
This list is non-exhaustive. We will continue to add more competitions and similar events that Singapore-based students can join.
Think we missed out on something? Email us at learn@ducklearning.com
Kang Liat Chuan
There is also Worldskills Singapore (Mobile Robotics trade), once in 2 years, participated by 5 polytechnics and ITE. The current hardware is based on Studica’s competition set.