Six teenagers from the African Burundi robotics team reported missing after FIRST Robotics Competition 2017 games ends.
ICMS, Inc.
Reports
By Tom
Okure, Ph.D.
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| FIRST Robotics Competition Logo |
FIRST Robotics Competition 2017 that just ended can be
termed a critical Mind Sport. The annual international student robotics
competition which took place in Washington combines the excitement of sport
with the rigors of science and technology.
Using limited resources and very stringent rules and a six
weeks dateline, competing high school teams are required to accomplish the task
of creating an industrial robot.
Teams of high school students all over the
world are invited annually and challenged to raise funds, create a team brand, sharpen
teamwork skills, and build and program an industrial size robot to compete with
each other. The annual competition welcomes all skill levels among the students
both technical and non-technical.
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Trump congratulates talented competitors at the FIRST Robotics Competition event |
Each team plays a hard field competitive and engineering game
close to a real life situation and student teams get the assistance of professional
volunteer mentors who give of their talent and time to guide their teams.
FIRST
Robotics Competition operates during the school year. Participating high school
teams form and are required to register in the fall. Each season ends with an
exciting FIRST Championship.
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Trump welcomes Teams USA,
Afghanistan and FIRST Robotics Competition winners, Team Hungary, to the White House |
Yesterday July 20, 2017, it was reported that six members of
the African Burundi team had vanished from the competition. Law enforcement
officials in Washington D.C. reported that two of the missing teenagers were seen
crossing into Canada.
The missing Burundi team members had competed in the
inaugural international event of the FIRST Global Challenge robotics
competition. This year the event, drew hundreds of high school students from
157 nations to Constitution Hall in Northwest. The event opened with a parade
of nations and closed Tuesday the 18th of July 2017 at around 6:30
p.m.
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| Six teenagers from the Burundi robotics team reported missing.caption |
Event officials stated that the students appeared to have left
of their own accord, as their housing keys were left in their mentor’s bag and
they took their clothes from their dormitory rooms. Could it be that the teenagers
used their opportunity to visit the United States as a chance for defecting? FIRST
Robotics students attending the event are alleged to have been given a one year
visitor visa to the United States.
The Police confirmed the names of the two Burundi students
crossing into Canada as Don Ingabire, 16, and Audrey Mwamikazi, 17. The destination
and current location of the two runaways remained unknown according to police.
Official missing person posters have been issued by the police and event
officials.
Aquita Brown, a police spokeswoman said they don’t suspect any foul
play. It is amazing that the Burundi Embassy in Washington stated in an email that the Embassy was unaware that a team from their country was in the United States until after the teenagers were reported missing.
The official game animation for the 2017 FIRST Robotics Competition game below:
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