International MEB Robot Competition is organised by our Ministry in order to increase the quality of vocational and technical education in our country, to create awareness in the society in this field, to enable secondary and equivalent schools, secondary education and higher education students to transform the knowledge they have acquired in their education processes into skills, to develop products, to think scientifically, to be raised as entrepreneurial and competitive individuals, to introduce industrial and technological developments to students, to exhibit and share their experiences in this field, to make students confident in themselves, to be understanding and respectful in social relations. Within the scope of promoting vocational education and orientation to vocational education, students studying in secondary and equivalent schools will be able to participate in the competition in the categories determined in this year's competition.

The International MEB Robot Competition has been held regularly every year since 2007. This year the 15th edition will be held in Bursa Naim Süleymanoğlu Sports Complex between 6-9 September 2023. In addition to the Industrial Robot Arm, Line Follower(Basic Level), Line Follower (Advanced Level), Line Follower Drag, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Mini Drone), Mini Sumo, Design&Built, Egg Collecting (Caretta Caretta), Master of labyrinth, Archer Robot (Basic Level), Free Project and Themed categories, this year for the first time, Underwater Vehicle (ROV) and Autonomous Vehicle categories will be added for the first time and will be held in 14 (fourteen) categories.

Ministry of National Education, General Directorate of Vocational and Technical Education and ACROME Robotik Mekatronik Sistemleri San. ve Tic. A.Ş. signed a Vocational and Technical Education Cooperation Protocol. Within the framework of this protocol, pre-selection will be held with Virtual Robot Competition in the Line follower drag and Mini Sumo categories. Those who are successful in the pre-selection will be entitled to participate in the International MEB Robot Competition to be held in Bursa.

Those who apply to the categories of Line-follower (Basic Level), Line-follower (Advanced Level), Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Mini Drone), Labyrinth Master, Industrial Robot Arm, Design-and-Run, Egg Collecting (Caretta Caretta), Dustcatcher Robot (Basic Level), Free Project, Themed, Autonomous Vehicle and Underwater Vehicle (ROV) will directly participate in the International MEB Robot Competition in Bursa.

Secondary and equivalent school students will be able to apply to the competitions to be held only in the categories of Line Following (Basic Level) and Tozkoparan Robot (Basic Level); secondary and higher education students will not be able to apply to these categories.

The theme of the 15th International MEB Robot Competition, which will be organised in cooperation with the Ministry of National Education, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), the Turkish Technology Team Foundation Aviation, Space and Technology Festival (TEKNOFEST) and the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA), is "Republic and Technology" and the slogan is "Ahican in the Footsteps of the Republic, Pursuing Technology in Bursa".

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