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workshops are targeted towards a national level robotics competition which chal-
lenges students as well as provides thrill of being in a robotic competition.
Background
Education system of Nepal is very good in terms of theory but with there is very little
practical components. This has become a fact which is true even for engineering field,
which is supposed to be practical. Teachers think their job is to pour the knowledge
they have in the head of students and students are supposed to take it for granted.
There is no opportunity for students to process the information and make sense of it.
Paper-based examination and scoring system creates pressure for students to re-
member words and theory rather understand them. Teachers on the other hand don't
want to leave their comfort zone and challenge students with practical education.
This has caused serious damage in the career development of students because they
lack critical thinking, problem solving ability and skills in the related field. Students
can't think out of the box and unaware of what's going on around the globe.
Most of the credit for this chaos in education goes to the government and its
political influence in Universities and partly to University itself for granting affiliation
to those colleges below the standards. There is nothing much that we can do to change
the policy but we can definitely do something for the students. If robotics could be
integrated with current education then it might be able to increase the quality of
education.
History
Formation of Robotics Association of Nepal was an initiative taken by final year under
graduate students. Students from Kathford International College of engineering and
management, Kathmandu engineering college, Himalaya College of engineering,
Advanced College of engineering, Himalayan Institute of Science and Technology,
Kantipur City College along with other engineering colleges of various Universities
felt necessity of a central hub for exploring, promoting, learning, sharing robotics
knowledge and to represent Nepal in the field of technology globally, in 2009.
After 6 months of preparation, constitution was finalized and Robotics Associ-
ation of Nepal [RAN] was registered as not for profit organization, in 2010. The
