For primary school children, the Panhellenic Educational Robotics Competition 2025 features four categories:
There are now two age groups in the open elementary category:
- Primary 1st grades (A’-D’) “Small pioneers on Mars use simple machines! ”
- Primary grades three through six “Can We Survive On Mars?”.
- “Football 2×2” is a parallel category for students in the third and fourth grades.
- “BaSTEAMball” is a parallel category for students in the fourth and sixth grades.
Elementary is designed to help students develop their ability to actively participate in groups by taking on specific roles, become familiar with the problem-solving process, and explore hands-on engineering and algorithmic thinking concepts related to building and programming robotic structures using MIT’s free Scratch software. The competition therefore familiarises pupils with the core chapter of “simple machines,” complementing the educational objectives of the curriculum.
Parallel category BaSTEAMball
BaSTEMball is an exciting team game for primary school students. It is a basketball match, where 2 rival alliances, consisting of 2 teams each, try to move with their remote-controlled robots as fast as they can and shoot from specific positions of the court (basketball track on a specially designed table). Each alliance’s goal is to win the game by scoring more baskets than their opponents as fast as they can.
- Ages: (E’ – Sixth Grade born from 1/1/2013 to 31/12/2014)
- Persons per group: 3 children (minimum 2 and maximum 3)
- Coach (over 20 years old)
The official supplier of equipment for the National STEM Competition is knowledge research.
Will be announced soon!!