Engineering Students win “ROBOFEST 2017”

ICBT Campus Electrical & Electronics engineering students team comprising JanithDimantha, Dimuthu Kalhara, LahiruGayantha and Chathuranga Karunarathne won Robofest 2017 competition organized by the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of Sri Lanka Institute Information Technology.

Held for the 8th consecutive year ROBOFEST took place from 4th - 8th September 2017 ‘ at the Main Auditorium of SLIIT, Malabe. As in previous years the competition had three categories -school, undergraduate and open.

ICBT Campus Students Team Won the undergraduate category trophy and a cash prize of Rs. 70,000. Robots designed by Undergraduate category teams had to perform picking and placing boxes after navigating through a tunnel of a specific size.

ICBT Campus offers a range of Engineering degrees including BEng (Hons) Electronic & Electrical Engineering in association with University of Sunderland - UK. Those after A/L’s can follow engineering degrees at ICBT Campus and complete the full program in Sri Lanka. Students obtain a full UK internal qualification quality assured and academically controlled by UK.

ROBOFEST 2017 was sponsored by University of Adelaide Australia, Orel Corporation, DBG company, Scion electronics and SLT.