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.  …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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TDSB FIRST Fall Fiesta Canadian Off-season Event

FIRST Robotics Canada, in partnership with the Toronto District School Board, is proud to bring the FIRST community our first Off-season FRC event in ten years which will take place…

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2014 Driver’s Ed Event

FRC Team 1334 is happy to announce the return of their Drivers Ed Event. This event will be for any team looking to improve their drivers skills. There will be practice…

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