Jucumari Tech Sports 

Jucumari Tech Sports 

In 2019, despite the health situation in Bolivia, Cesar and Octavio, two boys aged 9 and 11 at the time, launched a social enterprise to share their knowledge and teach children around the world for free on topics related to robotics, electronics, programming, science, and engineering. This project was called “Ingeniería y Robótica entre Hermanos” (Engineering and Robotics among Brothers).

In 2023, after four years of generating STEAM educational content on social media, they decided to move from educational robotics to competitive robotics, creating the Jucumari Tech Sports team, the first professional competitive robotics and programming team in Bolivia. The goal is to disseminate, promote, incentivize, and professionalize robotics and programming tournaments in Bolivia, proposing that these tournament must be considered science sports.

For the Robotics for Good Youth Challenge Bolivia, two friends were invited to participate in this important challenge. The team consists of brothers Cesar Martin and Octavio Andrés Pereyra, multiple champions of national and international competitive robotics tournaments and creators of the Steam educational project “Engineering and Robotics among Brothers,” along with Santiago Soto, who excels in programming and is part of the Bolivian computer science team that will participate in the 2025 International Olympiad in Informatics. Finally, the team is completed by Branko Nazrala, who stands out for his drawing and design skills.

Jucumari Tech Sports takes its name from the only species of South American bear (the Jucumari) that lives throughout Los Andes; and as part of the team’s message, all the robots they compete with are named after endangered animals, with the aim of raising awareness in society.

The Jucumari Tech Sports team is preparing to fly the Bolivian flag high.

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