FRC Curriculum

FIRST Robotics Canada has been developing some FRC curriculum.  Check out this dropbox to access all of the new materials!   Do you have resources you think would be valuable…

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St. Paul girls power school’s robotics team

Emily Barraclough is a rarity at robotics competitions — she’s a girl. The St. Paul Catholic Elementary School Grade 6 student knows few young females enjoy constructing robots as much…

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Youth robotics growing by leaps and bounds in Peel

MISSISSAUGA – Robotics is growing fast in Peel as schools and community organizations across the province and region continue to embrace and foster an ever-growing youth robotics competition circuit.  …

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Students go to school on Lego toys at competition

“How do we learn best?”   That was a question posed to 250 youngsters representing 26 school teams from across the York Region and the GTA at St. Robert Catholic…

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Elementary students build skills at competition

Teams of elementary school students built robots, and self-confidence, for the Sarnia Regional FIRST LEGO League Robotics Tournament Saturday at Rosedale Public School.   This year's tournament, the ninth held…

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Soapbox: Being first at FIRST robotics in Windsor and Essex County

Flip through the beautiful, glossy pages of the Canadian Association of Mold Makers 2014-15 directory and you will find the words “innovation, technology and investing in the future” repeated time…

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Jarvis: ‘I’d like to be a mechanical engineer’

The small, Lego robot named Super pitched a ball into a net. It mastered five obstacles to retrieve seven rings and hang them on a bar. It opened a door.…

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FIRST Lego League London qualifier

Some of the Forest City’s brightest young minds took over the auditorium of Western University’s John George Althouse Building on Dec. 6 to go head-to-head against each other in the…

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