Let’s take a better look at all the prizes and awards won by Italian teams at the Brazil Robotics World Championship (João Pessoa, July 19-25, 2014.
Five Italian schools made the podium on the July 24 final ceremony:
• Itis Monaco - Cosenza (Dance)
• Itis Chilesotti - Thiene (Vicenza) (Rescue)
• Liceo Democrito - Rome (Co-space)
• IIS Manetti - Grosseto (Superteam)
• IIS Galileo Galilei - Rome (Soccer)
Three world titles out five go to the teams that grew up at the RomeCup: SPQR Team, Manetti Soccer Team and Democrito Team. However, there also are a series of important awards that promote the work done by schools such as the Cardano Robotix team from Piazza della Resistenza in Monterotondo, which in 2006 was already present at “SconfinaMente,” the first science festival in Rome.
Other important recognitions go to the Democrito Team that has clinched two world titles and possesses a superb ability to communicate the potential of robotics to the public at large.
Here are the titles awarded to RomeCup teams:
Light Weight Secondary
World Champions, 1st place: SPQR Team
Best Interview
1st place (certificate): Marconi New Football Team
Best Superteam Communication
Special Mention for the Marconi New Football Team
Best Poster
2nd place (certificate): Cardano Robotix
Superteam World Champions
Special Mention for the Manetti Soccer Team
Spirit of RoboCup Award (certificate)
Special Mention for the Manetti Soccer Team
In the dance category, the Democrito Team received the "Best Virtual and Real Robots Communication" Award for its new “Blender-based” CoSpace Platform and a Technical Award for the Superteam dance.
These are all fundamental successes that underline the efficiency of the RomeCup model that involves schools not only in competitions, but also promotes a specific learning process that is part of the Multi-sector Educational Robotics Agreement promoted by Alfonso Molina.
A “historical” photo: then Mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, with two Roman students at the first Science Festival held in Rome in 2006.
