The AJHS BluBLOC Varsity Team won the Think Award in the Future Innovators – Junior High School category at the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) Korea 2026 in Cheongju, South Korea, sharing the honor with the NVAR team from Kazakhstan. Representing the Philippines were Team Leader Sannie Pascua (10-Nelson), Daylight Ibay (9-Ishida), and Gio Nisperos (10-Page), accompanied by coaches Jason Arias and Joel Falgui, and alumnus Anton Bugaoan. The team earned the award for KArIn, a culinary robot designed to introduce Filipino cuisine and culture, short for Kulinarya Artificial Intelligence and inspired by the Filipino karinderya. KArIn combines artificial intelligence and hologram technology, inspired by the WRO 2026 theme, “Robots Meet Culture.” According to the WRO Korea website, the Think Award is equivalent to the Eunsang or Silver Award, an achievement-based distinction rather than a conventional ranking, recognizing teams that reach a prescribed points threshold and demonstrate excellence in engineering design, logical problem-solving, and structured technical implementation. BluBLOC and NVAR earned the same recognition based on performance, rather than being ranked first, second, or third. The award marks another milestone for BluBLOC, which earned its highest-ever finish at the Philippine Robotics Olympiad last June by placing fourth and qualifying for WRO Korea.