Education
Indian boy from UAE makes it big in First Lego League
Sarthak Dayal Mathur, an 11 years old student at Cambridge International School, Dubai has made his school proud by winning at the FIRST LEGO League, one of the challenging guided international competitions for young, bright and future minds in Robotics.
First LEGO League program is built around theme-based challenges to engage kids ages 9 to 16 in research, problem solving, coding, and engineering. Students emerge more confident, excited, and geared up with the skills they want in a changing workforce.
Its a story of never give up till you scale the peak. Sarthak and his crew were placed 4th position in their first year of entry at UAE First Lego League National Level, however, their crew won 1st place in category Best Robotic Design and went on to represent UAE team at First Lego League International Championship in Bath, London.
In 2018, Sarthak and his team reached the top 8 teams out of 250 teams and have been chosen to represent UAE at International Level. In the same year, the crew was chosen to represent UAE for Arab Open Robotics Championship held in Egypt where they won 3rd place in Research Category. Last year in January 2019, Sarthak and his crew qualified to represent UAE at First Lego League Arabia which was held in Jordan. Making the country and his coach proud, the crew won third place for Strategy and Innovation Award.
A promising begin to 2020, this year Sarthak and crew are the champions of FLL Strategy and Innovation Award. Kim Santiago, executive secretary at Fun Robotics on behalf of the Fun Robotics Team, congratulated Marc, Raghav, Eliot, Sarthak, Gaspard and Musa of City 4 U Team for winning FLL Strategy and Innovation award. Thanks to the trainers, Baraa Al Jilani and Ola Al Kurdi for giving their full concentration and excellent determination in training the students for this event.
Apart from Robotics and Technology, Sarthaks other interests are playing Cricket and Web Designing.