Timmins Students shine at regional robotics competition.
Team 4704 – Northern Lights Robotics, made up of students in grades nine to 12 at Timmins High and Vocational School, placed 12th out of 35 teams at the Waterloo Regional FIRST Robotics Competition over the weekend. The students had to build a robot over six weeks to do a task, with this year’s task to move crates and stack them on a scale. Principal Greg Vincze says this year the students are happy with their placement and learned a lot over the building and competing process.
Vincze says the students not only learned about building robots, but how much it costs.
He says the school has to make an initial $7,000 investment per year, which gets them into two competitions and a basic kit of parts. He adds that the total cost of additional parts of the robot comes to about $3,000.
Vincze says Timmins High is starting a robotics class and club because of the success of this team. He says this will allow students to practice building and competing with different robots to prepare for the next competition season.
