Team of Memmingen school pupils wins
RoboCup World Championship - with the support of PFEIFER
02/2015 PFEIFER Group
Since 2002 the Bernhard Strigel Grammar
School in Memmingen has been offering its pupils from the 1st year onwards the
afternoon course "Robotics AG". The pupils design, make and program
robots here that move around the room entirely without remote control and can
sense their environment. The members involve themselves with a great deal of
purposefulness and commitment in addition to their normal school day and in
some cases even in parallel to their studies for the university entrance exams.
PFEIFER supports the members of the Robotics AG in order to help apply the
technology.
One of the largest international
competitions in the field of robotics, the RoboCup, took place from 21 to 24
July 2014 in Joao Pessoa, Brazil. The Robotik-AG defended their world champions
title in the discipline robot football. The robots designed by the pupils are
programmed in such a way that they can automatically follow a ball and shoot it
into the opponent’s goal or prevent the opponents from scoring a goal. In the
end the Strigel team was successful and is thus retained its title as world
champion. Without the generous support from PFEIFER the journey to Brazil would
ultimately not have been possible. The pupils and the leader of the robotics
workgroup offered their heartfelt thanks for that and brought along a small
souvenir from Brazil: A Havaiana flip-flop - signed by all six world champions.
A typical shoe for Brazilians that can be encountered everywhere. And even more
pleasing is that all three grammar school graduates began a course of study in
a MINT subject (Mathematics, IT, Natural Sciences and Technology) in the
autumn. PFEIFER wishes them every success.
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