What is Infomatrix?
Infomatrix is an international computer project competition, born from a desire to bring the world’s best IT students together. The competition is not just about promoting professional excellence; it also serves to promote intercultural dialogue and cooperation, through the involvement of students and teachers from all around the world.

SOLACYT
Latin American Society for Science and Technology.
It is a non-profit Civil Association, formed in 2002 in order to disseminate scientific culture, as well as the development of science and technology in Latin America. SOLACYT integrates several movements around education that offers a multinational platform to support students, teachers, institutions with an interest in science and technology through training, development, publication and implementation of contests, fairs, seminars and teaching resources.
Lumina Educational Institutions Foundation
Infomatrix is organised by Lumina Educational Institutions Foundation which was founded in 2001 with a main purpose of organizing educational activities at all the levels of the structural architecture of the Romanian educational system. The constitutive act specifies its purpose “to promote cultural and scientific values through education”. Since its inception, Lumina Educational Institutions Foundation has actively involved in supporting students with outstanding performances through its scholarship programmes, among whom can be found numerous medal winners in both national and international competitions.
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Computer Art |
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Programming |
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Hardware Control |
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Short Movie |
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Science Communication |
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Science Project | YES | YES | YES |
Robotics Lego Line Follower | YES | YES | |
Robotics Lego Sumo | YES | YES | |
Robotics Free Maze | YES | YES | |
Robotics Free Líne Follower | YES | YES |
Create a control software or connect it to an electronic/mechanic device. Also, Robotics projects are welcome in this category.
Create a video (short film, up to 7 minutes) in which you will convey your message in a story enhanced with visual and audial effects. Include English subtitles.
It’s a competition where the participant builds their own robot with only Lego Mindstorm (NXT o EV3). The robot has to be coded to detect and follow a black line as fast as possible.
Planning. Coding. Debugging. Programming. If you think you're up to the challenge and able to create a working program from top to bottom, you should definitely give it a try! Web-Based Programming, Apps, or Desktop Applications are included in this category.
Students choose a topic related to a science/technology fact of their liking. They research about it and prepare diverse materials to explain it to any type of audience with the objective of understanding it and appropriating of its meaning. The inclusion of a prototype or visual aids, as well as documented material in the project is primordial.
It is a competition in which two robots built solely with Lego Mindstorm (NXT, EV3, Spike o 51515) materials, known as sumo-bots, try to push each other out of an arena using sensors, intelligent programming and innovative design, by a maximum of 20 cm by side size and a maximum weight of 2 kg. The arena for the contest is a circle 77 cm in diameter and the time given for each round is 3 minutes.
The participant must design and program a robot capable of detecting and following a path traced by a black line, as quickly as possible.
Computer arts (aka digital arts) is an artistic presentation process where you can include drawings, designs, and 2D or 3D animations.
In this category, participants are expected to develop proposals, innovations, materials, or products, as a consequence of studying one of the various branches of science, such as: biology, physics, chemistry, medicine, health, earth science or engineering.
A robot is designed to solve a maze, finding a path without any assistance or help. As a type of autonomous robot, it has to decode the path on its own to solve the maze with success. Any participant-built robot is accepted, the width of the path is at least 20 cm, through 15 cm tall white walls.
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FAQ
A: You can participate as many times as you like as long as you are at the school grade limit for the category.
A: You can only participate if there is only a major change in your project.
A: Absolutely no. We have special agreements with our partners/affiliates and we will accept only verified projects from them. Any third party application from these countries will be rejected.
A: Another person can represent your project at Infomatrix, only if it is the same project used in the registration process. Ask your supervisor to make necessary changes before the registration date ends. If registration date has already ended, then you should contact us at [email protected] thirty days prior to the World Final date
A: As many as you like. However, only a maximum of two of these can participate at Infomatrix to represent the project.
A: For Stands Projects yes, but in robotics you can participate with up 2 robots
A: This is completely up to you.
A: We never claim any copyright on your work throughout the entire competition. We may only use pictures and video to help us promote our event.
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Rules and Regulations
ENTRY IN THIS COMPETITION CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES.
1. Binding Agreement
In order to enter the competition, you must agree to these official rules. Therefore, please read these Rules prior to entry to ensure you understand and agree. You agree that submission of a project in the competition constitutes agreement to these rules. You may not submit a project to the competition and are not eligible to receive the prizes described in these rules unless you agree with them.These rules form a binding legal agreement between you and Infomatrix with respect to the competition.
2. Who is eligible?
Any (student) must be enrolled in a school, secondary school to university (check categories chart). Supervisors can be anyone who is older than twenty years old. Student and supervisor are two distinct roles and cannot be merged.
3. Registration Fee
Teams from a INFOMATRIX Partners is free, all others there is a non-refundable project/robot registration fee of 20.00 US Dollars.
4. World Finalists Fee
There is also an entry fee of 99.9 dollars per participant (supervisors do not paid). This fee applies only to the finalists of Infomatrix World Finals. This will be used to cover the expenses made by the organization such as rental equipment, medals, certificates, other promotional materials, and awards.
5. How to enter?
To enter the competition a supervisor must register an account at https://register.infomatrix.ro/register.aspx
All entries will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry, and the winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder for that email address.
Project Entry
The project must meet the following requirements:
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Entries must be in English.
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Each entrant must provide a project description which should include
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Descriptions on/or sketches of your ideas (images)
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Early stage plans and/or designs
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Iterations of your project during development
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Software/hardware specifications
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Students cannot participate with more than one project.
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Subsequent entries will be disqualified.
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Entries are void if they are in whole or part illegible, incomplete, damaged, altered, counterfeit, obtained through fraud, or late.
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Each project can be represented by a team of maximum two students and a supervisor.
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Projects from previous years cannot be resubmitted unless there is a major change.
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All entries must be received by the deadline of the registration.
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