Lego League competitors talk science

Hundreds of Ontario students flocked to Oshawa Saturday for the First Lego Leagueprovincial championships, where teams of students ages 9 to 14 squared off with the robots they built using…

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St. Paul girls power school’s robotics team

Emily Barraclough is a rarity at robotics competitions — she’s a girl. The St. Paul Catholic Elementary School Grade 6 student knows few young females enjoy constructing robots as much…

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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.  …

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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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