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Youth robotics growing by leaps and bounds in Peel
MISSISSAUGA – Robotics is growing fast in Peel as schools and community organizations across the province and region continue to embrace and foster an ever-growing youth robotics competition circuit. Over 400 middle-school students battled for a spot in the upcoming provincial finals over the weekend (Dec. 13) at Rick Hansen Secondary School in one of FIRST Lego League’s (FLL)
Students go to school on Lego toys at competition
“How do we learn best?” That was a question posed to 250 youngsters representing 26 school teams from across the York Region and the GTA at St. Robert Catholic High School in Thornhill Saturday. The students, all under 15, were required to solve the dilemma with the use of Lego toys. No, not the the brick-shaped objects
Elementary students build skills at competition
Teams of elementary school students built robots, and self-confidence, for the Sarnia Regional FIRST LEGO League Robotics Tournament Saturday at Rosedale Public School. This year’s tournament, the ninth held in Sarnia, attracted 11 teams of students who prepared by designing and programing robots made from LEGO kits, and then put them through tabletop challenges Saturday. Along with learning
Soapbox: Being first at FIRST robotics in Windsor and Essex County
Flip through the beautiful, glossy pages of the Canadian Association of Mold Makers 2014-15 directory and you will find the words “innovation, technology and investing in the future” repeated time and again. It is fitting that among the articles and ads featuring local manufacturing companies you’ll find, on Page 46, an advertisement featuring the logos of CAMM, the Automotive
Jarvis: ‘I’d like to be a mechanical engineer’
The small, Lego robot named Super pitched a ball into a net. It mastered five obstacles to retrieve seven rings and hang them on a bar. It opened a door. It pushed, pulled, flipped and spun levers. Super was designed, built and programmed by kids in Grades 4 to 8. It could be Windsor’s future. When they reach
FIRST Lego League London qualifier
Some of the Forest City’s brightest young minds took over the auditorium of Western University’s John George Althouse Building on Dec. 6 to go head-to-head against each other in the FIRST Lego League (FLL) London Qualifying tournament. Hosted by Western Engineering’s FIRST mentorship club, a total of 14 teams made up of youth between the ages of nine to
Brain Freeze competing in Sudbury
A team of local students marked a milestone Wednesday as members geared up for their first Lego robotics competition of the year, this weekend in Sudbury. Sunset Park Public School’s team Brain Freeze unveiled a research project to a group of parents and teachers as part of this year’s FIRST Lego League challenge. The challenge not only requires
Clearview robotics club gears up for new season
NEW LOWELL — Obi Page hunkers over a nest of exposed circuitry, carefully tying together wires before replacing the Plexiglas cover to the bottom of the robot. The machine is up-righted, and loaded with an exercise ball, as Cybergnomes team captain Judah Page manipulates a joystick plugged into a laptop communicating with the robot via wireless, the sound of suddenly-released
International Lego robot competition at U of T
Sarah Casson wasn’t yet in middle school when she discovered a love of robots. Her interest was sparked in 2010 when her mother and other parents in Long Island, New York started up a Saturday morning robotics class at the 10-year-old’s public school. Four years and a regional FIRST Lego League (FLL) prize later, Casson and her team traveled
FLL in Canning/Scott’s Bay community notes June 17
Flying Manatees First Lego League Robotics Team earned 460 points at the International Open in Toronto, placing them in the top third of some of the best teams in the world. Eamonn and Macky Schwartz, Jonah McKay and coach Ian McKay have already registered for next year’s challenge with more numbers, tournaments and projects. Click here to see the rest