ROBOCON Malaysia 2010

A rather late date for this year Malaysia's robocon competition, 22nd to 27th June 2010. Here we are, with less than one week to the competition which will be held in UKM, everybody is working hard to finish the designs and robots production. Of course i'm not one of them. I'm graduating this year so do not involve in the designs team.

After we won the Robogamez in Uniten last year, it looks like our university will be one of the hot contender for the champion this year in ROBOCON Malaysia. But for those who included UM as one of the few teams to watch, don't worry too much as our preparation has been marred by campus politics, and by politics i'm not only mean those students politics aka small fries, it also involved very complicated relationship in the staffing level as well. Hence, we're definitely not in the position to win anything this year. I'm unfortunate to say that reputations are more important than students' welfares and knowledge for some members in the university. You definitely can't have enough politics in UM, the university that famous with politics, from students politics involved green and blue to some complicated situation which lecturers with only Dr. titles before their names are completely not qualified to solve. Let alone students, that's the beginning of self destruction. the university are weaken by plenty of politics, and it will continue until we have a new generation of research based staffs in UM. We have too much politics oriented staffs and it's not good for a university that aimed to do well in knowledge acquisition.

But nonetheless, i believe we, the students will try our best to compete in the competition, who knows we can spring some surprises. The teams to watch are definitely UTMs, i feel sorry for them last year in the competition for the objections from other universities. They worked really hard and came out with some innovative technology that others can't do. I know really what they have done as i personally was a sensor designer. Hence, to get booed by others was something really not fair to them. Hopefully they can come out stronger and become champion this year.

But no matter how the outcome of the competition this year, we will come back stronger and stronger in the future. 2 of our self-designed and developed innovations are in the pipeline to be ready in the future, namely the fiber optic color sensor and image sensor. Although i've no chance to continue in getting involve in educational sector in the near future, i'm sure students will benefit much from competition as it prepares well for their future.