Five local robotics teams were aiming to qualify for the provincial finals
Boreal French Immersion's robotics team brought home the Judge's Award from the Ontario championship qualifier Saturday in Brampton.
The Algoma sides ran up against some strong competition, many teams having already taken top honours at one or more previous competitions, a news release stated. The Algoma teams finished towards the bottom of the rankings, but for the students it was about more than winning. It was apparent most of the teams had studied the high-scoring robots from around the world and reused many of the designs. In comparison, the Algoma teams had unique robot designs. Having made a innovative chain dropping mechanism to score bonus points, Boreal’s team of Jonah Hargin, Nevan Young and Quinton Fabbro were able to impress officials at the event and walked away with the Judge’s Award.
The students spent the three-week preparing for Brampton by refining their robot designs, testing new features and building new components. From the Blind River team, Jai Mistry noted, “We built a bunch of new mechanisms to shoot the pucks under the fence and improved the arm a little bit.”
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