The Minister of Education and Science, Przemysław Czarnek, and the Minister’s Plenipotentiary for Digital Transformation, Justyna Orłowska, inaugurated the nationwide ‘League of Robots’ tournament. The aim of the initiative is to get students interested in robotics. The Ministry of Education and Science (MEiN) will allocate PLN 10 million for the project.

“Today, we are inaugurating a tournament of teams which have laboratories of the future, modern IT and robotics labs in their schools; the 15,000 primary schools that received tens of thousands of pieces of robotic materials. Those teams, focused on the subject of energy, can participate in a great nationwide tournament, for which we are donating another PLN 10 million”, informed the head of the MEiN.

The nationwide robotics tournament ‘League of Robots’ is another project implemented under the government programme ‘Laboratories of the Future’, in addition to the Mobile Laboratories of the Future and ‘Innovative History’. Under this programme, PLN 1.2 billion has been earmarked over the past several months to equip 15,000 public and non-public primary schools with specialised equipment.

“Thanks to this, access of children, pupils in primary schools to modernity, to robotics, to what we call laboratories of the future, is now common on a scale not seen in many Western European countries”, said Minister Czarnek.

The head of the Ministry of Education and Science pointed out that the money donated is aimed at getting pupils from all primary schools in Poland interested in robotics, modernity and energy. He also announced robotics provincial tournaments and a grand national final to be held on 24 and 25 June in Warsaw with the participation of 32 best teams.

“All this is organized to enable our children, our pupils from grades IV to VIII, to touch modernity at the highest level, because this will shape them for the future”, said Przemysław Czarnek.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński