MINOAN ROBOTSPORTS COMPETITION GLOBAL OLYMPIAD
11 to 14 April 2025
INDOOR STADIUM "2 AORAKIA" NEAS ALIKARNASSOU, CRETE, GREECE
Elementary School - High School - Universities - Adults
Sports categories require great ingenuity, engineering, coding, strategy and teamwork. For each Sport, there is no single right or perfect solution, but indefinite ways of approaching the given task, in order to achieve the best result. The challenges are short but multidimensional, designed to give participants the opportunity to overcome themselves, not only during the preparation process but also during the actual races!
The competition aims to cultivate in students creativity, teamwork, problem solving, ingenuity, healthy competition, while at the same time being taught through sports robotics, engineering, programming, mathematics, physics.
Each team can take part in as many sports as it wishes, always following the rules of each sport
We are counting down to the 2025 MRC Global Olympiad
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As there are continuous updates, please check the categories you have chosen to participate in frequently.
Updates for 2025 season are shown in green letters.
SPORTS & RULES
CREATE - CODE - RUN
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INFORMATION
NATIONAL PARTNERS
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COMPETITION 2025 SAMPLE TIMETABLE
The final timetable will be announced after registration closes.
The sports for each day will not change.
OLYMPIAD AIMS TO:
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Develop skills to young peoples e.g. the ability to communicated and work following team spirit
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Introduce new generation in the world of technology and initiate them in the applications of robotics in every day life
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Help them better understand the fundamentals of physics and its everyday usability in our real world
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Strengthen the self-confidence of young people
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Create the necessary bonding between technology and sports
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Help for a more effective organizing and reinforcing of the already known knowledge and to provide new impulses
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Move new generation from passivity inside the “paths” of science, their applications, inside engineering and software development and mechanical engineering
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Transform new generation to inventors, who will discover, design and create solutions in everyday life problems
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Train young people to become citizens of the new digital society of information
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Provide in a long-term way the ability to shape highly skilled executives who will contribute in their country’s economy and technological development
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Promote innovation and excellence in forefront technologies and additionally promote critic and research thinking
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Familiarize students and adults with Sports and New Technologies.
ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE
Minoan RobotSports Competition Global Olympiad, is organized by the Hellenic Educational Robotics Organization, which is based in Heraklion Crete, Greece.
HELLENIC EDUCATIONAL ROBOTIC ORGANIZATION - H.E.R.O. is a non-profit organization who aims to develop and spread Educational Robotics and Steam worldwide.
ENTRANCE FEE
The fee in order for a team to participate in the event is 75€/team - Registration (please check "Milestone Dates" below).
This cost is standard regardless the number of the sports categories each team will participate.
But BE CAREFULL:
If you register for a sport and during your participation in the competition, you do not participate in it, then any distinction you may have in other sports is automatically cancelled. This is because if a team declare participation in a sports and not participate, creates many problems in the organization and in other teams.
PLEASE RESPONSIBLY DECLARE THE SPORTS YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN AND DO NOT CANCEL YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THEM AFTER COMPLETING THE REGISTRATION FORM OR DURING THE COMPETITION.
PRIZES
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All team members will take a Certification of Attendance.
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Three (3) best results from each category will be additionally provided with a Certification of Excellence and a Cup.
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Winning teams in some categories will be provided with technology gifts.
HONORED COUNTRY FOR 2024
HONORED REMOTE ISLAND 2025 Heroic Island of Kasos
MILESTONE DATES
Registrations Opening 1/08/2024
Early Registration 01/08/2024 to 15/1/2024
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75 euros fee per team.
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Free tickets for visits to monuments, museums and cultural sites. (for people that will get the accommondation packages)
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Discound to accommodation and transportation packages.
Late Registration 16/01/2025 to 09/03/2025
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100 euros fee per team.
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Free tickets for visits to monuments, museums and cultural sites. (for people that will get the accommondation packages)
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No discounds to accommodation and transportation packages.
Registrations Closing 09/03/2025
Coaches meetings 15/01/2025 to 15/02/2025
Event dates 11 to 14/04/2025
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