RoboEDU - Awards Ceremony
Awarding Ceremony of the 6-day educational workshop on Robotics and Arduino for school children.
The Awarding Ceremony of the RoboEdu workshop series was successfully concluded on the 27th of March 2022. The session was held from 7.00 PM to 7.45 PM, with a priceless informative session done by Dr. Tharindu Weerakoon, our beloved advisor and the senior treasurer. As usual opening with a welcome by the moderator, the spotlight was given to Dr Tharindu, to awaken the young innovative minds with the motivation they needed. The speech included the true meaning of why we should use technology and how we can use it considering humanity's concerns. Also, he included some technical information, such as controlling and functioning robots. Further, he did not forget to include some eye-catching, splendid projects which have been done previously. Straight after the speech, the moderator took the spotlight and announced the winners of the 6-day workshop, the most awaited moment of the day. These winners were chosen by evaluating the answers presented to the tasks given at the end of each session and the active participation. The winners were given a valuable Arduino kit and the other participants were given a valuable certificate.
With this announcement, the session was concluded with a huge success by giving the basic knowledge of Robotics and Arduino to more than 300 school students from various schools around Sri Lanka.
Winners
A.T. Senevirathna - Dharmaraja College, Kandy
M.L.D.V Liyanage - Royal College, Colombo
R.U. Induwari Gamlath - Girls’ High School, Kandy
Hiran Dananjaya Perera - Royal International School
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- Starts 05 December 2021 08:00 PM UTC
- Ends 27 January 2022 08:00 PM UTC
- No Admission Charge
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Dr. Tharindu Weerakoon
Technology and Education with humanity
Enriched the young innovative minds with the things they needed to be motivated throughout until the success. Also he emphasized on how we should use the technology with the concerns of humanity
Biography:
Dr. Tharindu Weerakoon is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya. He has earned his Master of Science and Ph.D. both in Robotics and Control from the Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan. He has also worked as a researcher at the same institution. Before that, he served for several state and private academic institutions as a consultant. Not only that, Dr.Tharindu has been a member of the underwater research group of the Center for Socio-Robotic Synthesis at KIT in collaboration with the University of Tokyo, Japan. He has also published several journals and conference papers in which some of which have received the best paper award. His main interests are concentrated in the fields of Robotic Control, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning.
Agenda
7.00 - 7.02 - Welcome by the moderator
7.02 - 7.35 - Guest speech by the senior treasurer and adviser of IEEE RAS UOP, Dr. Tharindu Weerakoon.
7.35 - 7.45 - Awarding the winners.
7.45 - End of the session
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