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MINOAN   ROBOTSPORTS   COMPETITION  GLOBAL OLYMPIAD

3 to 6 April 2026
HERAKLION  CRETE, GREECE

 

Elementary School    -   High School   -   Universities   -   Adults

Sports categories require great ingenuity, engineering, coding, strategy and teamwork. For each Sport, there is no single right or perfect solution, but indefinite ways of approaching the given task, in order to achieve the best result. The challenges are short but multidimensional, designed to give participants the opportunity to overcome themselves, not only during the preparation process but also during the actual races!

The competition aims to cultivate in students creativity, teamwork, problem solving, ingenuity, healthy competition, while at the same time being taught through sports robotics, engineering, programming, mathematics, physics.

Each team can take part in as many sports as it wishes, always following the rules of each sport

We are counting down to the 2026 MRC Global Olympiad

IMPORTANT:  

As there are continuous updates, please check the categories you have chosen to participate in frequently. 

Updates for 2026 season are shown in purlple letters.

SPORTS & RULES

CREATE  -  CODE  -  RUN

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COMPETITION 2025 SAMPLE  TIMETABLE
TIMETABLE

The timetable for 2026 will be announced soon.

OLYMPIAD AIMS TO:

 

  • Develop skills to young peoples e.g. the ability to communicated and work following team spirit

  • Introduce new generation in the world of technology and initiate them in the applications of robotics in every day life

  • Help them better understand the fundamentals of physics and its everyday usability in our real world

  • Strengthen the self-confidence of young people

  • Create the necessary bonding between technology and sports

  • Help for a more effective organizing and reinforcing of the already known knowledge and to provide new impulses

  • Move new generation from passivity inside the “paths” of science, their applications, inside engineering and software development and mechanical engineering

  • Transform new generation to inventors, who will discover, design and create solutions in everyday life problems

  • Train young people to become citizens of the new digital society of information

  • Provide in a long-term way the ability to shape highly skilled executives who will contribute in their country’s economy and technological development

  • Promote innovation and excellence in forefront technologies and additionally promote critic and research thinking

  • Familiarize students and adults with Sports and New Technologies.

ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE

 

Minoan RobotSports Competition Global Olympiad, is organized by the Hellenic Educational Robotics Organizationwhich is based in Heraklion Crete, Greece.

HELLENIC EDUCATIONAL ROBOTIC ORGANIZATION - H.E.R.O. is a non-profit organization who aims to develop and spread  Educational Robotics and Steam worldwide.

ENTRANCE FEE

The fee in order for a team to participate in the event is 75€/team -  Registration  (please check "Milestone Dates" below).

This cost is standard regardless the number of the sports categories each team will participate.

But BE CAREFULL: 

If you register for a sport and during your participation in the competition, you do not participate in it, then any distinction you may have in other sports is automatically cancelled. This is because if a team declare participation in a sports and  not participate,  creates many problems in the organization and in other teams.

PLEASE RESPONSIBLY DECLARE THE SPORTS YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN AND DO NOT CANCEL YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THEM  AFTER COMPLETING THE REGISTRATION FORM OR DURING THE COMPETITION.

                   

       

 

 

 

 

 

PRIZES

  • All team members will take a Certification of Attendance.

  • Three (3) best results from each category will be additionally provided with a Certification of Excellence, Winning Medal and a Cup.

  • Winning teams in some categories will be provided with technology gifts.

FEES

HONORED COUNTRY FOR 2025 ARMENIA

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OLYMPIAD'S GOAL
ORGANIZER
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HONORED REMOTE ISLAND 2025 Heroic Island of Kasos

DATES

      MILESTONE DATES

 

Registrations Opening                                       15/07/2025

Early Registration                                             15/07/2025  to 28/2/2026

Late Registration                                                  1/03/2026 to 20/03/2026

Registrations Closing                                         20/03/2026

           

Coaches  meetings                                             30/01/2026  to 15/02/2026

 

Event dates                                              3  to 6 /04/2026

ORGANIZER:

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