Good results for the Preiļi robotics team at the TSI “Winter Cup” robotics tournament!
On 16 December 2017 the robotics tournament “Winter Cup” took place in Riga at the Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TSI), and Preiļi was represented by a large team of pupils, graduates and parents’ representatives from Jānis Eglītis Preiļi State Gymnasium, Preiļi 1st Primary School and Preiļi 2nd Secondary School.
The robotics club was represented by:
Armands Upenieks (JEPVĢ, RTU), Linards Šmeiksts (JEPVĢ, RTU), Matīss Dambītis (JEPVĢ, RTU), Solvita Ragauša (9.D), Valdis Mihailovs (9.D), Egils Sirmais (9.D), Edīte Meikulāne (10.D), Rasa Saulīte (10.D), Iļja Martinovs (11.D), Toms Vilcāns (11.D), Jānis Ziemelis (11.D), Reinis Ķiberis (11.D), Matīss Buks (11.V), Ilja Isajevs (12.D), Eduards Lipiniks (12.D), Linda Madelāne (JEPVĢ/RTU), Laura Buka (JEPVĢ/RTU), Kristiāna Skutele (JEPVĢ/LLU), Normunds Kokins (grade 7, Preiļi 1st Primary School), Markuss Martinkus (grade 6, Preiļi 1st Primary School), Mārtiņš Ulpe (grade 6, Preiļi 1st Primary School), Aldis Buks (amateur, parents’ representative).
More than 170 robots from Latvia competed in all the events together, and in fairly stiff competition our team’s members managed to win several prize places, including all the podium places in the free-structure Folkrace and line following events.
This year our line follower builders performed excellently – 1st place for Eduards Lipiniks, 2nd place for Lauris and Linards Šmeiksts, 3rd place for Iļja Martinovs and Iļja Isajevs!
2nd place in the “Folkrace” event for Armands Upenieks!
Matīss Buks managed to win several prize places – 1st place and 3rd place in the “Folkrace” event and 1st place in the “Mini Sumo” event!
A member of the Preiļi 2nd Secondary School team won 1st place in the Lego Folkrace event.
All the information about the competition and results
Thank you to all the participants for preparing for the competition, thank you to Armands, Linards and Matīss for the work put into preparing the team, thank you to the parents’ representative Aldis Buks for his support! Thank you to Kristiāna Skutele for capturing photo moments of the competition!
On 27 January 2018 the “Preiļi Robotics Championship” is being organised in Preiļi – it is time to start preparing for the Preiļi competition!
Competition photo gallery
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
Juris Erts, head of the robotics club