The coronavirus pandemic has not only turned the Swiss WRO schedule upside down. The international events, the world finals in Canada and the friendly tournaments in three countries also had to be canceled. But the Canadians came up with a great online event in which three Swiss teams took part.

The teams were able to participate in the regular category, with the same tasks as in the competitions in Switzerland, in completely new surprise tasks, and in a trivia quiz about Canada. At least one team was successful in each of these competition categories:

Regular” Senior category, “Rising Water” seasonal task

Team bin_rädi: 5th place
Aaron Griesser, Pascal Burkhard and David Jeny

Sugar Shack” robotics competition

Senior

Team bin_rädi: 2nd place
Aaron Griesser, Pascal Burkhard and David Jeny

Junior

Team robofactory: 4th place

Jesse Born and Julian von Hoff

Rio Tinto Awart

Finalist

Team bin_rädi:
Aaron Griesser, Pascal Burkhard and David Jeny

Worldwide Canada Trivia Game #1

Team GLegoRobotics: 1st place
Julian Steiner, Florian Helbling and Ambros Anrig

WORLDWIDE CANADA TRIVIA GAME #3

Team GLegoRobotics: 3rd place
Julian Steiner, Florian Helbling and Ambros Anrig