On December 9, the reporter learned from the Education Bureau of Guidong County that in the final of the 18th National Primary and Secondary School Information Technology Innovation and Practice Competition, which is currently concluded in Rizhao, Shandong Province, five contestants from Guidong County have won three first prizes and two second prizes in the intelligent catering robot project. Luo Yihao of the primary school group, Guo Chuxing and Li Zhiyang of the junior high school group won the first prize, while Luo Yang of the primary school group and Fang Junwen of the senior high school group won the second prize.

"National Primary and Secondary School Information Technology Innovation and Practice Competition" is sponsored by the central audio visual education center, which aims to cultivate the innovative spirit and practical ability of teachers and students by using information technology. It is a national level platform mainly for teenagers to carry out artificial intelligence science popularization, lead scientific and technological innovation, and improve students' innovation literacy. The NOC competition is a national level platform for the popularization of artificial intelligence science, leading scientific and technological innovation and improving students' innovation literacy, and is a large scale and influential national competition.

Director of Guidong County Youth Extracurricular Activity Center said: "in recent years, in all kinds of robot competitions in primary and secondary schools at all levels, Guidong County has made great achievements and has taken the lead in successive years, so it is expected to achieve good results. Four of the five players in this competition are "novices". They won the first prize in the national competition for the first time. Their stable mentality and super long performance are unexpected. I believe this will also bring more impetus to their subsequent robot learning. "

The three coaches, Guo Yufei, Zhou Xiujuan and Yang Jia, who led the team in this competition, are teachers in Guidong County. They love robot education, have been engaged in robot education for many years, and have accumulated rich robot teaching experience. Among them, coach Guo Yufei has been rated as excellent coach of Hunan Province and "Zhongming" national top ten counselors for many times. He has participated in the referee work of robot competition in the whole province for many times, and has guided Guidong students to win one top prize after another.

Robot learning can cultivate students' innovative ability, practical ability, practical ability and cooperation ability, which is an important means to promote quality education. Fang Junwen is a senior high school student. As an "old player", this is his fifth year of learning robot, and he has won the qualification of national competition for the third time. From interest to love to pursuit, he brought the spirit of robot learning into daily life. In June this year, he also won the 14th Soong Ching Ling Scholarship.

Guidong county is the first county in Chenzhou City to introduce and promote innovative quality education of robot information technology. From 2008 to now, Guidong County has won 17 national awards, 58 gold, 54 silver and 83 bronze in provincial level robot competition activities of primary and secondary schools, which has been in the leading level of the city for 11 consecutive years.

Since 2017, Guidong County has included the annual robot education activity funds into the budget at the beginning of the financial year. At the same time, it has applied for special funds to the national lottery public welfare fund for robot education activities. Up to now, it has invested nearly 2 million yuan, further improving the robot information technology education and training center of primary and secondary school students in Guidong County, and established 5 robot activity rooms, including Guidong No.1 Middle School, Yunyi Experimental School, Oujiang No.2 Primary School, Oujiang No.1 Primary School and Oujiang Middle School. The information technology innovation education base has gradually expanded from urban schools to rural schools, robot education activities have extended from urban to rural areas, and the scope of activities has changed from competition activities to conventional innovation and application activities. The scientific literacy of primary and secondary school students in the county has been significantly improved. Robot education in primary and secondary schools in the county has taken teaching as the core and promoted development by competition, to greatly promote the information technology exchange, educational technology innovation and education concept upgrading of primary and secondary schools in the county.