Junior High School Rescue Robot Challenge for Fostering Problem-Solving Skills

Abstract

“Junior High School Student Rescue Robot Challenge” is an annual activity organized by Hiroshima University in cooperation with a construction equipment manufacturer. The Challenge has been continued for 18 years with a given theme of rescuing. The policy of the program was essentially changed, nonetheless, from 2022, in which the both problem-finding and problem-solving skills were emphasized. The theme of “the Challenge in 2022” is totally operated by students, which includes from proposal of the problem to be solved in disaster-stricken areas, to finding resolutions by making prototype rescue robot by modifying remote-controlled excavator model of 1/14 scale.