Heaven Solutions received the “CSR Initiative of the Year” award at the 2024 PIN Awards. The award recognises our educational and community programmes.
How it started
Seven years ago, Cristian Micliuc, our CEO and a graduate of the “Grigore Moisil” Informatics High School in Iași, wanted to give the next generation of engineers in the city a place to build things. He trusted the school’s teachers and the talent of local students, and Heaven Solutions funded a robotics lab, led by Professor Mirela Tibu.
The lab launched the CyLiis and Peppers robotics teams, who now compete well beyond Romania.
A year of results
Most of the students’ work is in the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC). CyLiis and Peppers both qualified among the top 40 teams worldwide for the Maryland Tech Invitational (MTI), organised by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Ten members of the two teams travelled to MTI. It was the first time a Romanian school sent two teams to the competition in the same year.
Peppers had already placed second in the Motivate category at the FIRST Tech Challenge Championship in Houston, Texas. Two members of the robotics teams also won third prize in the Robotics and Intelligent Machines category at the international ISEF competition in Los Angeles.
Beyond the lab
We also support local initiatives such as Casa Share and its educational centre, Rotary Academica scholarships and ProRuralis scholarships.
We are grateful for the recognition and plan to keep investing in education and in the community in Iași.
