11-Year-Old Boy Secures Spot in Robotics World Championship After 3rd Place at FIRA Brazil and Now Raises Funds Online to Gather R$ 24,000 to Compete in RoboWorld Cup in Canada

Written by Romário Pereira de Carvalho

Published on 26/02/2026 at 14:07

Updated on 26/02/2026 at 23:51

Imagem: Divulgação

4 people reacted to this.

Eleven-Year-Old Miguel Romanhol Takes 3rd Place at FIRA Brazil 2025 in the U14 Impossible Mission Category and Secures Spot at FIRA RoboWorld Cup in Canada with Estimated Cost of R$ 24 Thousand per Competitor

The 11-year-old student Miguel Romanhol from João Monlevade secured a spot at the world educational robotics championship by finishing in 3rd place in the U14 Impossible Mission category at FIRA Brazil 2025 in Santo André, ensuring qualification for the FIRA RoboWorld Cup in Canada.

Qualification at FIRA Brazil Secures Spot in the World Educational Robotics Championship

Miguel participated in the national stage of FIRA Brazil, held at the end of 2025 in Santo André, São Paulo.

By reaching 3rd place in the U14 Impossible Mission category, he secured a place in the international phase of the competition.

ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW

Project In The Backpack to Take About 40 Members to Canada

The Cespbots team is part of the Project In The Backpack, an organization from Médio Piracicaba focused on training young people in technology and educational robotics.

The expectation is to take approximately 40 students and technicians to the world championship.

Despite the confirmed qualification, participation in the event depends on financial support. The estimated cost is approximately R$ 24 thousand per competitor.

This amount includes expenses for travel, registration, and the technical kit necessary for the international educational robotics competition.

The Boy’s Interest in Robotics Began at Three Years Old

According to the family, Miguel showed interest in Lego from the age of three. His exposure to robotics classes at school expanded his involvement in the field.

According to his parents, he began to realize that he could bring life to the creations he built. Over time, his interest grew, and the family started to see potential for a future in technology.

The achievement at FIRA Brazil was described as a moment of joy. His parents stated that seeing their son’s happiness and dedication in pursuing his chosen path was a source of pride.

Founded in 2020, the Project In The Backpack delivers innovation and technology education to students from public schools in Nova Era, João Monlevade, São Domingos do Prata, and Rio Piracicaba.

The initiative aims to broaden access to STEAM education, which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics, in addition to developing creativity, logical reasoning, teamwork, and problem-solving skills.

With a focus on programming and educational robotics, the project has gathered results in national and international competitions.

In 2024, students participated in FIRA Brazil in Maranhão and secured a spot in the FIRA RoboWorld Cup, held in Daegu, South Korea.

On that occasion, the group won a silver medal in the U14 Impossible Mission category in the programming challenge, putting Minas Gerais in the spotlight at the world festival.

With information from De Fato.

11-Year-Old Boy Secures Spot in Robotics World Championship After 3rd Place at FIRA Brazil and Now Raises Funds Online to Gather R$ 24,000 to Compete in RoboWorld Cup in Canada

Eleven-Year-Old Miguel Romanhol Takes 3rd Place at FIRA Brazil 2025 in the U14 Impossible Mission Category and Secures Spot at FIRA RoboWorld Cup in Canada with Estimated Cost of R$ 24 Thousand per Competitor

Qualification at FIRA Brazil Secures Spot in the World Educational Robotics Championship

Project In The Backpack to Take About 40 Members to Canada

The Boy’s Interest in Robotics Began at Three Years Old

While an average building in London or New York takes three years to be completed, in China a 26-story tower went up in five days with about 100 workers, and the global modular construction market already moves US$ 95 billion per year.

Australia installs giant concrete structures on the seabed 800 meters from the shore to create an ocean intake for desalination that will draw in saltwater and produce 30 million liters of drinking water per day.

While a traditional school may take several days just to raise walls, in Malawi a 3D-printed school had its structure ready in 18 hours, welcomed children in June, and showed a new solution to the lack of classrooms.

Goodbye traditional washing machine: Panasonic surprises housewives with the NA-G5 featuring four drums, a 13 kg washer and dryer, a 12 kg dryer, independent mini washers, a heat pump, and a 4-in-1 system awarded at the German Design Award.

While cities spend fortunes patching potholes and tons of plastic become waste, the Netherlands transforms over 218,000 recycled cups into a modular bike path that can conceal drainage, cables, and pipes.

Empty beer bottle turns into sand, and the sand turns into concrete: an American city has discovered how to recycle glass locally using a solar-powered truck that crushes five tons of bottles per day in a local circular economy project.

Fish sludge becomes sustainable building material in China and reveals technology that could change the future of architecture

End of construction during peak hours in SP: maintenance on São Paulo highways only during business hours, with a fine of R$ 3,500 and a promise to reduce traffic jams and accidents on the roads

Chinese Navy oceanographic ship arrives in Bahia weeks after a US report points to suspected strategic presence of Beijing in the South Atlantic, placing Brazil at the center of the silent dispute between Washington and China in South America.

Chevrolet maintains oil-bathed belt for the 2027 Tracker: model arrives with a turbo engine of up to 141 hp, autonomous braking, 40% more efficient camera, 8 years of free OnStar, and a promise of a future 48V flex hybrid version.

102-year-old grandfather becomes the ‘oldest AI teacher in the world’: he teaches seniors to use Windows 11, Android smartphones, and digital apps in a project created in the Windows XP era; awarded in 2026, he still drives, goes to the gym, and helps students up to 94 years old.

11-Year-Old Boy Secures Spot in Robotics World Championship After 3rd Place at FIRA Brazil and Now Raises Funds Online to Gather R$ 24,000 to Compete in RoboWorld Cup in Canada

Eleven-Year-Old Miguel Romanhol Takes 3rd Place at FIRA Brazil 2025 in the U14 Impossible Mission Category and Secures Spot at FIRA RoboWorld Cup in Canada with Estimated Cost of R$ 24 Thousand per Competitor

Qualification at FIRA Brazil Secures Spot in the World Educational Robotics Championship

Project In The Backpack to Take About 40 Members to Canada

The Boy’s Interest in Robotics Began at Three Years Old

Social Project Has Operated in Four Cities Since 2020

While an average building in London or New York takes three years to be completed, in China a 26-story tower went up in five days with about 100 workers, and the global modular construction market already moves US$ 95 billion per year.

Australia installs giant concrete structures on the seabed 800 meters from the shore to create an ocean intake for desalination that will draw in saltwater and produce 30 million liters of drinking water per day.

While a traditional school may take several days just to raise walls, in Malawi a 3D-printed school had its structure ready in 18 hours, welcomed children in June, and showed a new solution to the lack of classrooms.

Goodbye traditional washing machine: Panasonic surprises housewives with the NA-G5 featuring four drums, a 13 kg washer and dryer, a 12 kg dryer, independent mini washers, a heat pump, and a 4-in-1 system awarded at the German Design Award.

While cities spend fortunes patching potholes and tons of plastic become waste, the Netherlands transforms over 218,000 recycled cups into a modular bike path that can conceal drainage, cables, and pipes.

Empty beer bottle turns into sand, and the sand turns into concrete: an American city has discovered how to recycle glass locally using a solar-powered truck that crushes five tons of bottles per day in a local circular economy project.

102-year-old grandfather becomes the ‘oldest AI teacher in the world’: he teaches seniors to use Windows 11, Android smartphones, and digital apps in a project created in the Windows XP era; awarded in 2026, he still drives, goes to the gym, and helps students up to 94 years old.

Goodbye common mattress: new AI bed adjusts support while the person sleeps, changes firmness in real-time, and promises to end the logic of static foam in the bedroom.

Trump’s Golden Dome envisions satellites, radars, lasers, and interceptors capable of destroying missiles even before launch. China and Russia classify the project as an obvious threat and warn that preemptive attacks to “disarm the enemy” are destabilizing.

A Soviet cosmonaut left Earth for a routine mission, spent 311 days stranded on the Mir station, and returned as the “last citizen” of a country that had already disappeared.

Could artificial intelligence be heating entire neighborhoods? Study indicates that AI data centers release enough heat to raise nearby temperatures by up to 2.2 ºC and raise an alert about the new thermal pollution in cities.

Fish sludge becomes sustainable building material in China and reveals technology that could change the future of architecture

End of construction during peak hours in SP: maintenance on São Paulo highways only during business hours, with a fine of R$ 3,500 and a promise to reduce traffic jams and accidents on the roads

Chinese Navy oceanographic ship arrives in Bahia weeks after a US report points to suspected strategic presence of Beijing in the South Atlantic, placing Brazil at the center of the silent dispute between Washington and China in South America.

Chevrolet maintains oil-bathed belt for the 2027 Tracker: model arrives with a turbo engine of up to 141 hp, autonomous braking, 40% more efficient camera, 8 years of free OnStar, and a promise of a future 48V flex hybrid version.

102-year-old grandfather becomes the ‘oldest AI teacher in the world’: he teaches seniors to use Windows 11, Android smartphones, and digital apps in a project created in the Windows XP era; awarded in 2026, he still drives, goes to the gym, and helps students up to 94 years old.