A Highlands Year 3 student will travel to the other side of the world to compete in a robotics competition next year, after excelling in a regional round of the global tournament.
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In June 2018, Glenquarry Public School’s Cara Sims will travel to Estonia as part of a robotics team representing Australia in the First Lego League World Championships.
The Horsley-based team, named Project Bucephalus (after the famous war horse of Alexander the Great) and made up of six members aged between nine and 16, competed in the Australian championships at Macquarie University on December 2 and 3.
They took out the category of Robot Performance with the tournament’s highest score of 390. Project Bucephalus finished second place overall, and will be one of nine teams representing Australia in the international competition next year.
This year’s theme was Hydro Dynamics, and in addition to robot performance the teams were also judged on robot design, a research project and on their demonstration of a range of core values, such as teamwork and friendly competition.
For their research project, the team visited Jamberoo Action Park during its winter shutdown and spoke with staff about their biggest water management challenges. As Jamberoo is not connected to town water and is a completely rain fed system, evaporation is their biggest concern.
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