New Taipei City Smart Technology and Programming Design Competition North Division Concluded, Many Schools Won Prizes to Showcase Students’ Practical Ability

This year’s smart technology literacy and programming innovation and application competition North District competition was held at Yongping High School. (Provided by New Taipei City Education Bureau)

In science and technology education, thinking and implementation are also an important part. New Taipei City Education Director Zhang Mingwen said that the city government worked with the National Taiwan Normal University to organize this year's "Smart Technology Literacy and Programming Innovation Application Competition". The North District competition recently attracted 198 teams from elementary schools to tertiary institutions and more than 500 teachers and students to compete on the same field. New Taipei City students took the top three in the national group and won the championship in the junior high school group in the wheeled robot project. Banqiao High School also won the third place in the quadcopter advanced group.

Zhang Mingwen pointed out that this competition covers 4 projects, including quadcopter, engineering robot, wheeled robot and AI robot, and tests the contestants' programming, equipment control and on-site problem-solving abilities. New Taipei students performed well, and Jiangcui Elementary School, Beixin Elementary School and Ankeng Elementary School won the "Wheeled Robot Program" respectively. The first, second and third runner-up of the "Route Challenge"; an inter-school team from Zhongshan, Zhongxiao and Banqiao Junior High School formed a team and won the championship of the "Wheel Robot Programming Challenge"; Banqiao High School won the third place in the advanced group of the "Quadcopter Programming Creative Flight Challenge", demonstrating New Taipei students' technology application and practical problem-solving abilities.

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Shen Meihua, principal of Yongping High School, said that when students encounter program jams and robots deviate from the route, they can proactively find out the problem, adjust strategies and try again. This is also an important part of the competition. From classroom theory to the competition site, students must make immediate judgments, divide work and cooperate, and demonstrate their ability to learn independently and solve problems.

The Education Bureau said that in the face of the rapid development of generative AI and automation technology, technology education is more important to cultivate children's ability to analyze problems, think strategies and human-computer collaboration. New Taipei continues to use courses, competitions and technology learning environments to allow students to go from hands-on practice, repeated testing to independent correction, including promoting "AI+ technology schools", technology mathematics and physics experimental classes and high school technology centers. This year, it also started to build AI technology high schools and AI demonstration campuses, and compiled "AI Smart Adventure" teaching materials for elementary school third to sixth graders to let AI literacy take root.

A group photo of the winners of the Quadcopter Programming Creative Competition Flight Challenge. (Provided by New Taipei City Education Bureau)

Director Zhang Mingwen encouraged the contestants at the award ceremony. (Provided by New Taipei City Education Bureau)