UrFU team won the 2nd place at Worldskills Russia – 2015

13:06, June 4, 2015

The team received 35.5 points in the category “Mobile Robotics”, the winners overpassed them only with 2 points difference

The students of UrFU Institute of Physics and Technology won the second place in the categorye "Mobile Robotics" at the III National Championship Worldskills Russia 2015, which was held in Kazan on May 20-22. Nikita Dayanov and Arseny Chernov trained by Alexander Fomenko lost only 2 points to the hosts of the championship, gaining 35.5 points. The task was to programme robot Robotino to pass the labyrinth. In total, this category gathered six teams from Brest (Belarus), Moscow, Kazan, Sevastopol, Ekaterinburg and Pervouralsk.

The contest included 57 categories (42 contest categories and 15 presentation categories), which was attended by 519 participants from Russia, CIS, Morocco, Israel and Finland. In general medal standings the first place took the Republic of Tatarstan (69 medals), the second - the Sverdlovsk region (61 medal), the third - Moscow (60 medals).

Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.