Inside King's-Edgehill School
On Sunday, February 16, the King’s-Edgehill School Robotics team travelled to Acadia University to take part in Robofest, a tournament based out of Laurence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan, USA. Thirty-eight teams from across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island competed in a game entitled “RoboGolf”. In this game, students were required to design, construct and program autonomous robots to carry out a series of tasks in under 2 minutes. Tasks included such challenges as shooting golf balls into a hole and knocking over water bottles. I am very pleased to announce the following results for King’s-Edgehill School:
1st place overall: Angela Du, Aaron Lu and Annie Yu
3rd place: Benson Lin, Lonnie Luo and River Qi
5th place: Runzhe Yan, Will Zhao and Victor Zhou
7th place: Stacey Ao and John Fan
In addition to these excellent results, in the afternoon Edward Chang placed 3rd out of 16 teams in a game called “BottleSumo”. In this game, in order to win, robots had to be the first to knock either a bottle or the other team’s robot off the table.
My congratulations go out to this outstanding group of students!
The wonderful thing about striving to be more is that you never know where you might end up. Through our International Baccalaureate Programme, our students are able to pursue post-secondary education almost anywhere in the world. Download our IB Guidebook here.
