The competition was hosted by Indonesia from August 7 to 15, as the most prestigious computer science competition for secondary school and high school students around the world.

Alireza Kaviani and Kousha Mousavi won a gold medal, Alireza Samimi grabbed a silver medal and Aria Hemmati received an honorary diploma.

Some 90 countries participated in IOI 2022, and the Iranian team ranked ninth place in the world.

The competition is one of five international science Olympiads held annually.

In the 33rd International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2021) held in Singapore, Iran ranked 7th among the participating countries by winning one gold medal and 3 silver medals.

More success in international competitions

The students of the Sharif University of Technology won three gold medals, one silver medal, and one bronze medal in the 29th International Mathematical Competition (IMC 2022).

Iranian students also grabbed four gold medals at the 33rd International Biology Olympiad (IBO 2022), ranking first in the world.

Some 90 countries participated in IOI 2022, and the Iranian team ranked ninth place in the world. The national physics Olympiad team also won 2 silver and 3 bronze medals in the International Physics Olympiad 2022, held online from July 11 to 14 and hosted by Switzerland.

Moreover, the Iranian Mathematical Olympiad team won three gold medals and three silver medals, ranking 8th in the 2022 edition of the competition.

Over the past Iranian calendar year, which ended on March 20, Iranian students won seven gold medals, 11 silver medals, and nine bronze medals at different international Olympiads.

Scientific growth seen to continue 

Studies show that Iran enters the year 2022 with the 15th rank in science production worldwide and it is expected to make progress over the next years as the coronavirus pandemic is going to ease.

In reviewing scientific products, various indicators such as publication of articles in prestigious international journals, citations, validity of journals, the level of productivity, and scientific impact of scientists are considered quantitatively and qualitatively.

According to the latest information on science production, Iran is ranked 15th in the world in the international system of Web of Science in 2021, with an h-index of 383, which indicates the quality of Iranian articles registered.

Iran’s scientific position in the Web of Science over the last 5 years shows that the production of conference papers has been on a downward trend during 2020 and 2021 due to the outbreak.

The share of Iranian science production from conference papers has dropped from 7.38 percent in 2017 to 1.26 percent in 2021.

In the SCOPUS international regulations, the most important research areas of Iran in the production of science in 2021 have been medicine, engineering, and materials science, respectively.

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The competition was held on November 16 – 18, 2018 in Chiang Mai Thailand. First held in 2004 in Singapore, it now attracts more than 20,000 teams from nearly 60 countries.

The Iranian team secured the fourth place after teams from Malaysia, the Philippines and Russia.

Moreover another Iranian team, called Green Land, also came in the 11th place in Open Category Junior.

This year’s WRO theme is “food matters”, it focuses on the way we grow, share and consume food. It is an important theme, because one in nine people in the world today (795 million people) are undernourished. And with a growing population in the world, more and more food needs to be produced every year. We can use technology to help grow more and better food and reduce food waste.

The competition consists of 4 different categories, Regular, College, Open and Soccer and for the Regular and Open categories, it consists of three different age groups: Elementary, Junior High and Senior High.

The Open Category is a project based competition. Students create their own intelligent robotics solution relating to the current theme of the season. Teams will present their project and their robot model to a group of judges on the competition day.

The mission of Open category this year was to build a robot that supports the way we grow, share and consume food. The project should have focused around at least one of the following aspects of the Goal 2 of sustainable development: promote sustainable agriculture, improve nutrition, achieve food security, and end hunger.

The Regular Category is a challenge based competition. Students must design, construct and program their robots to solve specific challenges on a field. Points are scored for completed tasks. The teams bring their robot completely disassembled. In the first part of the competition they will have 150 minutes to assemble their robots from loose parts without instructions.

WRO Football is a fun and exciting game with teams of two autonomous robots playing football (soccer). Every year little changes are introduced for the game to motivate the students to keep on developing their robots. Teams need two robots to participate in WRO Football. The controller, motors and sensors used to assemble robots must be from LEGO® MINDSTORMS® sets (NXT or EV3). The teams bring their robot completely disassembled. In the first part of the competition they will have 120 minutes to assemble their robots from loose parts without instructions.

The Advanced Robotics Challenge (ARC) is our newest category. The games are designed to test older and more experienced student’s engineering and programming skills to the limit. Teams compete on a set challenge. The maximum time differs depending on each competition. In the 2017 season it was introduced the Tetra stack challenge.

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