Theme and game rules for Asia Pacific Robotic Contest 2011 declared by the international host Thailand focus on Krathong - a Thai ceremony held on the full moon night in November every year to pay obeisance to the goddess of the rivers.
India's public service broadcaster and largest television network Doordarshan makes an elaborate arrangement for wide publicity of National edition of this unique contest organized by broadcasters.
Besides providing a great learning opportunity to the budding engineers and their teachers towards highlighting the increasing role of robotics in the days to come, Robocon offers a scintillating spectacle to watch.
4 days national contest opens with 57 teams of budding technocrats which have toiled hard with an undying hope and unceasing determination to excel in the arena.
Tecnical excellence, operational skill and luck play their part and by the end of an exciting and eventful third day of robotic contest, India finds its 8 best performing teams of the year.
Besides Nirma - the team with a golden history, Team B of IIT Bombay makes a special mark of its technical excellence throughout the tournament and is rooted as one of the favorites to win the contest.
Representation of India in the ABU ROBOCON 2011 Bangkok on August 28 will be the 5th participation of Nationals winner Team NIRMA in the international arena.
Defying all the expectations of a neck to neck fight between the two giant teams Nirma, Ahmedabad and IIT Bombay in the final match, faltering of the Robots of IIT Bombay repeatedly led to a one sided finale.
Nirma, Ahmedabad emerged national champions with a thumping victory defeating its opponent team of IIT Bombay with a huge margin and earned the right to represent India in the Asia Pacific Contest to be held in Bangkok, Thailand.
Nirma Institute of Technology has been the national level winner 4 times - in 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2008, and represented India in the Asia Pacific contests.
The glorious past of national wins posed a challenge to the present members of Team Nirma to raise the bar. They did not waste any time after the National Championship and started preparing for the next level.
