Robotics Competition

On Friday April 5^th, four lucky students were allowed to attend to the Robotics competition held at the Musée de la Civilization. There were many teams over there, 27 teams from primary and 18 from secondary. Every team had their robot built when they arrived and were ready to program. We had spent weeks trying different models before deciding that the tank model would work the best. The challenge was to carry four different 1.5 kg bricks to four different places on the mat and you had to be careful not to bump into walls or roll off the mat. You had to use a light sensor to deposit the brick in the right place. If you got the the four programs perfectly the maximum you could get was 1200 points. We had two tries, the first time we got only 300 points, then checked our program figured out the problem and fixed it. On the second try we got 1175 points. With that performance, Holland School finished 2^nd at the robotics regional competition with a total of 1475 points.

Our robot, Spike, didn't let us down!

By: Olivier Perreault