東南網澳大利亞7月25日訊（本網記者 蘇小魁） 當地時間7月23日，世界教育機器人大賽(WER)2017賽季澳洲公開賽于悉尼奧體中心舉行。
比賽受邀嘉賓。（攝影：蘇小魁）
此次比賽是世界教育機器人大賽首次登陸澳洲，受到當地政府和學校的高度重視。新南威爾士州上議員，多元文化影子部長 Sophie Cotsis 女士，中華人民共和國駐悉尼總領館教育領事劉文武先生，WER 澳大利亞賽區組委會主席及ERC Robotics Lab 校長 Alex Tang 先生，WER 秘書長何婷女士，新南威爾士大學電器和通信工程學院院長 Julien Epps 教授等重要嘉賓出席開賽儀式并致辭。
比賽延續了 2017 賽季“工業時代”的主題，仍以積木機器人賽項為主，分為場地賽、拓展任務賽、團隊展示賽等環節。賽場上，無論是中國還是外國選手，都認真投入，展現了驚人的想象力和創造力。
經過角逐，最終，來自中國杭州江南實驗學校的JiangNan S3隊伍奪得了小學組比賽冠軍，而同一學校的JiangNan M3隊伍則獲得了中學組比賽的冠軍。
據悉，世界教育機器人大賽WER(World Educational Robot Contest)是由"世界教育機器人學會 "(World Educational Robotics Society)發起并主辦，針對 4 至 18 歲少年兒童的國際性教育機器人比賽。每年全球有超過 30 個國家的近 50 萬名選手參加WER的各級比賽。
WER 2017 Successfully Held in Sydney
Southeast Net Australia July 24 (Andy Su) Local time July 23, the World Educational Robot (WER) Contest 2017 was successfully held in Sydney Olympic Park.
The WER Contest is founded and organised by World Educational Robotics Society. It is a contest that targets children from 4 to 18 years old. Every year there are around 500, 000 contestants from more than 30 countries participating in this contest globally.
Since this is the first time for Australia to host the WER Contest, the contest is strongly supported by local authorities, organisations and students. The following honoured guests attended the opening event of the contest: Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly and Shadow Minister for Multiculturalism Ms.Sophie Cotsis，Consul (Education) from the PRC Consulate General in Sydney Mr.Liu Wenwu, WER Australia Chairman and principal of ERC Robotics Lab Mr.Alex Tang, WER Secretary Ms.He Ting，Director of UNSW School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications Dr.Julien Epps.
The contest continued the 2017 theme of “industrialisation”. The contestants need to build their own brick robots in order to complete several tasks for the competition. Participants from both China and Australia demonstrated great dedication, incredible imagination and creativity.
At the end of the contest, two teams from the China Hangzhou Jiangnan Experimental School, JiangNan S3 and JiangNan M3, won both championships for the elementary school sector and the high school sector respectively.
