For the first time this year, the FIRST Robotics competition was held in Niagara at the Niagara College Welland Campus. The St. Catharines Lakeshore sponsored Governor Simcoe secondary School Team 1114 - Simbotics competed and qualified to move on to the next level being held at McMaster University in Hamilton. Teams compete throughout Ontario and around the world (over 3000 teams worldwide) to qualify for the provincials and then to qualify for the World FIRST Robotics Championship to be held later this year. As the photos indicate, the robots place a white roll on a purple stand. The higher you can put it (you’ll see they are placing it high in the second picture) the more points you get.Click HERE for an article on the competition and a profile of our own Janet Allan, Volunteer Coordinator at the competition.
PHOTOS:
Left: Robot 1114 enters field of play
Right: Robot placing white roll