This year, for the eleventh consecutive year, the World Robotics Olympiad (WRO) will be organized, in which Greece has also participated for the last 5 years.
Russia is the country that will host the competition for 2014 and each country sends the teams that won its national competition to represent it. Greece this year, however, will send, besides its teams, three judges, who were selected by the global committee because of their biographies and experience in the competition.
The youngest of them, the Dialectic Athina Voutyrakou, is only 19 years old and her achievements and the conferences she has attended were enough to earn her a spot among the judges of the Olympiad. Her first contact with robotics was at 13, when her team won the 1st national robotics competition and represented the country at the 6th World Olympiad in Korea.
The stimulus was enough for him/her to decide to get involved in robotics. Thus, two years later, he/she creates the team “reforestation” and they build a small-scale robot that provides reforestation work. With this idea they win the 3rd national robotics competition and represent the country at the 8th Olympiad in Abu Dhabi. There, due to the original idea and its presentation, they achieve 9th place worldwide, the best Greece has ever achieved in the open category of the competition.
In 2012 she participated with her team at the World Robotics Conference in Malaysia on the topic “The integration of robots into society” and in 2013 represented the country at the pan-European competition “ROBOMAC” in Skopje, where she took 2nd place. She is now a student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens and was one of the judges of this year's national robotics competition.
In a month, then, she will travel to Russia where she will be a judge in the regular category of the competition, which is a great honor both for herself and for the country, which, besides participants-contestants, will also have people who are given such great responsibilities (judge regular category) in a global event and even at such a young age.
Source: reforestationteam.blogspot.gr
