A total of 300 teams from around Asia take part in this year's event.

Four teams from Pingtan No1 Middle School recently won top awards at the VEX Engineering Challenge of the 7th Asian Robot Championships in Macau – for the second year in a row.

The victories consolidate Pingtan's dominate place in the field. Last year a team from Pingtan won the national champion at the event.

A total of 300 teams from around Asia took part in this year's event.

The teams from Pingtan consisted of eight students - four boys and four girls – with two students in each team, and an average age of 15.

Nian Haokun and Chen Jiayan won top prizes in the high school category, and Nian, 15, is now a three-time national VEX engineering challenge champion.

He said that he enjoys the competition and hopes to study a major related to robots at university.

Edited by Chen Zhilin and Niva Whyman