Since I promised to tell you about my early competitions, I’ll keep my promise 🥳 During…

Since I promised to tell you about my early competitions, I’ll keep my promise 🥳

During my school years, I actively participated in various Olympiads, but this is all a little different. It's interesting, but professional competitions provide a completely different experience 🧠

It all started when I was in 9th grade. I was 15 years old then, and I took courses in mobile robotics at the State Budgetary Educational Institution of Western Kazakhstan ( my local college ). I don’t even remember how exactly I found out about it. Either they came to our school, or it was something else, but it doesn’t matter. I only remember that after several classes in the robotics course, the teacher suggested that my friend and I try the Internet of Things course, since it was designed for older children, and it would be more interesting for us there

Naturally, we switched to a different course. And this is where my first acquaintance with the Internet of Things took place. And it covered me so much that it still doesn’t let go 🧐

After six months of studying on the Internet of Things course, the mentor, seeing my friend and I’s results, thought it would be a good idea to try sending us somewhere ( in the good sense of the word ). And so we found ourselves on JuniorSkills 2016 , which took place on the basis of some lyceum ( For the life of me, I don’t remember which one )

In general, the competition itself JuniorSkills are carried out in a huge number of different competencies, but we, logically, participated in the track "Internet of Things"

JuniorSkills – “junior league” of world-famous competitions of professional excellence WorldSkills , running for almost 70 years and uniting 72 countries

This was the first Internet of Things competition in my life. There was a lot I didn’t know then. My friend and I spent three days almost non-stop developing an automated watering and plant monitoring system based on Arduino Uno, photoresistors, soil moisture sensors, a pump and an Internet shield. Data from the sensors had to be sent via the Internet to the platform ThingWorx from PTC, which we also deployed and configured ourselves 😳

Five teams of different skill levels competed against us. I can only say that, according to our mentor ( after the award ceremony ), based on the results of the first day of competition we were second from last ( in other words, ranked fifth out of six ) 😵‍💫

There were a lot of things we didn’t know how to do, but we saw the ThingWorx platform for the first time. az in life. We studied everything right during the competition ( including documentation in English ). My partner and I barely slept these days. We were charged and motivated. And guess what?

We took first place.They also won the Audience Award. In three days of competition, we managed to do so much and performed so well with the system in front of the jury that we became the undisputed winners, significantly leaving second place behind 🥇

Then for the first time we became champions of Moscow in the “Internet of Things” competency in the context of the JuniorSkills competition. Thus began my competitive career, which lasted until I entered university ( and resumed in the fall of 2024, but in a slightly different format )

I have a lot more to write about, so I decided it would be a series of posts. Next time I will tell you about my second competition ( Robofest 2016, which took place in one of the pavilions at VDNH ) 😊

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