The University of Santiago de Compostela is organizing the D3MOBILE METROLOGY WORLD LEAGUE (www.d3mobile.es), an International Championship in 3D Precision Modeling on mobile phones aimed at strengthening the scientific vocation of 15-18 year old students around the world. The main objective of D3MOBILE is to disseminate importance of metrology, offering participants to develop 3D accuracy virtual models with a mobile phone. The championship winner will be the team that gets better results in measurements of an object.
The main objectives of the Championship will be the simulation and stimulation of students’ research capacity in order to encourage their reflecting upon its importance when it comes to solving our environment’s problems and on the importance of decision making based on the analysis of the results obtained in an experimental process. Furthermore, the exercises proposed in this Championship encourage the educational use of the Internet and learning various technical computer programs which students might find useful for their future work.
The aim of d3mobile.es is for students born between 1996 and 1998 all over the world to participate in a team championship that will reinforce their research capacity. They will be using equipment well known to all: mobile phones and computers. They will learn the basics of the photogrammetric technique with the help of one of their teachers and the free software they will be provided with. This methodology will allow them to build scaled tridimensional models of simple objects and it will only take them two afternoons of study to master it. Three mandatory exercises using specific free Internet programs will be carried out over the course of the Championship. The first exercise is oriented to training students whereas the remaining two will be subject to a grading process in order to grant the final award.
