Robot Battle for the Finish Line

12/6/2023

Tihmily Li, Communications Officer

In the early morning hours on Saturday, November 25, Greenwood’s Robotics Club gathered and departed for Oshawa’s Ontario Tech University (OTU). In three teams, the students competed in OTU’s annual engineering outreach robotics competition. Every team must design a robot that can fit on a 20 by 20 centimetre square in a stationary position. If the robot satisfies the size restrictions, the team may then compete.

The competition involved an obstacle course, which the robots had to navigate within three minutes. But wait, there’s a twist — there were other robots competing for the finish line in the same obstacle course at the same time! More points were awarded to the first robot to cross the finish line. Additional points were rewarded if one team’s robot manages to disable or knock off another team’s robot.

Greenwood’s teams had a lot of fun and learned a ton at the competition. One of our teams won the Women in STEM award at the competition. Congratulations to all the teams!

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Left to right: Nicole Moscoe '26, Victoria Biancaniello '26, Ted Hollend '26 and Sophia Martins '26 pose together with their robot.
Left to right: Sophia Martins '26, Ted Hollend '26, Victoria Biancaniello '26 and Nicole Moscoe '26 observe their robot's functionality.
Left to right: Brendan St John '25, Max Xu '24, Kevin Xu '24, Björn Farah '23, Alec Farah '25, Collin Stubbs and Jake Diehl '24 pose with their robot at the competition.
Left to right: Sophia Martins '26, Kylie Armstrong '25, Victoria Biancaniello '26, Nicole Moscoe '26, Char Mackenzie '25, Soren Biderman '26 and Julie McLennan '25 pose with their robots.

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