FIRST Lego League York Qualifier

This elementary school age robotics competition was sponsored by FIRST Robotics Canada and run by the Robotics team at Markham District High (FRC Team 5428). The qualifier event was held at Markham District High School where 18 teams from York Region competed in a contest called TRASH TREK using Lego Mindstorm robots that the teams have been working on since early September.The teams were from local public, Catholic, and Montessori schools as well as community and family teams and were judged on their presentations and execution by their robots of the challenge. Several winning teams will move on from this event to the Provincial Championships at the University of Ontario in Oshawa in early January.

Click here to see the original article in Snapd Markham.