CHIȘINĂU, Moldova — October 12, 2026 — FIRST International Staff Moldova has received the FIRST International Problem 2026 in Incheon, Republic of Korea, securing one gold and two silver medals on the worldwide robotics competitors bringing collectively nationwide groups from practically 190 international locations. Moldova received gold as a part of the event’s profitable alliance alongside Uzbekistan, Venezuela and El Salvador, whereas additionally incomes silver for the engineering design of its robotic and silver for its Ember Mesh innovation mission.
The Moldovan nationwide crew was represented by ENIGMA, a crew with its roots within the village of Boșcana, Criuleni district. 4 of its 5 pupil members — Uliana Vîntu, Gabriel Josan, Valeria Untila and Augustin Leșan — research on the “Mihai Stratulat” Theoretical Excessive Faculty in Boșcana, making a rural faculty the spine of Moldova’s nationwide crew. Daniel Țanga, from the “Boris Dinga” Theoretical Excessive Faculty in Criuleni, accomplished the coed crew. They have been mentored by Elena Frunza, from the Boșcana faculty, and Veronica Eșanu, Coordinator of the Nationwide Academic Robotics Program and mentor with the Innovate Moldova Programme. ENIGMA was chosen to symbolize Moldova following its efficiency on the 2026 FIRST Tech Problem Moldova Nationwide Championship.
To unravel contest’s problem, the crew introduced their know-how idea to the worldwide stage. Ember Mesh is a community of autonomous sensor capsules designed to detect forest fires early beneath the tree cover, the place typical aerial monitoring might be much less efficient. The capsules transmit environmental information to a monitoring platform and might be deployed by drones or helicopters in distant and difficult-to-access areas. Designed as an reasonably priced resolution that might be deployed by communities internationally, Ember Mesh superior to the ultimate spherical of the FIRST International New Expertise Expertise and acquired the silver FIRST International Innovator Award, ending among the many competitors’s main innovation initiatives.
The outcome additional strengthens Moldova’s distinctive report at FIRST International. Moldova entered the 2026 competitors on the prime of FIRST International’s all-time gold-medal rating with eight gold medals; the victory in Incheon brings the nation’s tally to 9 gold medals. Since becoming a member of FIRST International in 2017, Moldova has received bronze in Mexico in 2018; three gold medals in Dubai in 2019; gold in Geneva in 2022; gold and silver in Singapore in 2023; two gold medals in Athens in 2024; and gold and an honorable point out in Panama in 2025. The 2026 version provides one other gold and two silver medals — the Zhang Heng Award for Engineering Design and the FIRST International Innovator Award — to that report.
Moldova’s worldwide efficiency is rooted in additional than a decade of funding in academic robotics. Launched in 2014 because the RoboClub pilot, the Nationwide Academic Robotics Program has expanded from a handful of collaborating colleges right into a nationwide community of greater than 270 robotics golf equipment in colleges and libraries, partaking greater than 60,000 college students in sensible STEM studying. The programme offers college students hands-on expertise in programming, engineering, design, teamwork and problem-solving, making a pathway from introductory faculty robotics to superior nationwide and worldwide competitors. The preparation and participation of FIRST International Staff Moldova have been supported by the Ministry of Training and Analysis and the Nationwide Company for Curriculum and Analysis; the Innovate Moldova Programme, funded by Sweden and the UK and carried out by the Basis for Growth of the Republic of Moldova; Premier Power Distribution; the Technical College of Moldova and FabLab Chișinău; and Ozonteh.
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