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Robotics of the future, Schools Lego-Robot competition

Schools across the whole Winning team, Ysgol Friars, 香港六合彩挂牌资料.of Wales took part in a simultaneous 鈥淩obotics of the future鈥� Lego challenge at Venue Cymru recently. 香港六合彩挂牌资料鈥檚 Technocamps team ran the north Wales heat of this exciting new competition. 

Ten competition kits worth 拢500 each were donated to 10 local schools by 香港六合彩挂牌资料鈥檚 Technocamps project. These were used in the schools鈥� technology clubs and in the robotics competition. Teams of six pupils aged between 11 and 19 from the 10 schools attended the competition.

The event was opened and compered throughout the day by TV presenter, Gareth Jones.

The pupils had to pre-build a future robot that will help our environment in any way possible. The pupils also received a hidden challenge on the day.

This was a simultaneous national competition where the Technocamps hubs at Aberystwyth, Glamorgan and Swansea Universities also ran their competitions with live video links and a number of web based 鈥榟angouts鈥� on-going throughout the day.

On the day, the schools were judged on their designs and developments as well as given a challenge where they had to modify their robot to dance to a musical beat. The regional winners of the competition were announced live as Ysgol Friars from 香港六合彩挂牌资料, and the National winners were announced on Monday as Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw from Pontypool.

Kim Jones, organiser of the 香港六合彩挂牌资料 event said: 鈥淭his was such an exciting event to organise, it was great to have so many schools participating and it was an honour to be involved in a pan-Wales event. The schools did brilliantly in the challenges and the designs were fantastic with some fascinating fresh ideas.鈥�

Publication date: 29 July 2013