{"id":190509,"date":"2022-12-05T07:53:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T11:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=190509"},"modified":"2022-12-05T09:36:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T13:36:11","slug":"dominican-students-win-international-space-robotics-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/12\/05\/dominican-students-win-international-space-robotics-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican students win international space robotics contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Estudiantes-domiicanos-ganan-concurso-Robotica-Espacial-Acento-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190593\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>University students from the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science and Telematics Engineering of the Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) won second place in the Ibero-American Space Robotics Competition &#8220;Moonwalker.&#8221; The Dominican students competed against 55 teams from Latin America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual contest is held to motivate new generations to use remote communication technology, key in satellite launching missions. The competition also sought to generate capacities and skills for the development of knowledge in the area of space science and technology. The contest was organized by the National University of Mexico (UNAM) in collaboration with the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican winners, who participated under the name &#8220;PUCMM Space Robot,&#8221; were Justin Bueno, Ilka Hern\u00e1ndez, Patricia DiMassimo, Alvin Rodr\u00edguez and \u00c1ngel Richard, with the advice of Professor Rafael Batista. A team from the National University of Cordoba, Argentina placed first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The competition also sought to generate capacities and skills for the development of knowledge in the area of space science and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justin Bueno, one of the participating students, said they engineered a simulation system for an already-built robot using remote algorithms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/acento.com.do\/actualidad\/estudiantes-dominicanos-ganan-concurso-internacional-de-robotica-espacial-9138063.html\">Acento <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 December 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University students from the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science and Telematics Engineering of the Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) won second place in the Ibero-American Space Robotics Competition &#8220;Moonwalker.&#8221; The Dominican students competed against 55 teams from Latin America. The annual contest is held to motivate new generations to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/12\/05\/dominican-students-win-international-space-robotics-contest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[293,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190594,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190509\/revisions\/190594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}