25th annual Manitoba robot games returns in Winnipeg – Winnipeg | 24CA News
The twenty fifth annual Manitoba robotic video games returned to Winnipeg on Saturday after a three-year absence as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
“We had to cancel 20 games about a week in advance. So much disappointment on half the students,” mentioned Alan Pollard, Manitoba Robot Games Executive.
“There’s a huge amount of disappointment, but we’re glad to be back. There are lots of students here. Most of the students are back.”
The video games started at 9:30 a.m. till 4:30 p.m. within the Gymnasium at Tech Voc High School.
It’s a contest for college kids from kindergarten to grade twelve. For months, groups of scholars have labored to design and construct robots for his or her competitors of alternative.
The occasion has 16 completely different competitions the place robots with names like The Yeti, CUL8R, and British Toast Mach-Okay go head-to-head in issues like sumo wrestling, tremendous scramble, robo-critter, and competitors for lego.
Organizers say the competitors is an effective way for college kids to get a way of real-world design and engineering they usually come away with advantages resembling sensible abilities, problem-solving, teamwork, and information of electronics and programming. The occasion additionally helps college students construct curiosity in science, know-how, engineering and arithmetic, in any other case often called STEM topics.
“We get starting in elementary school is the place where you really start to build the enthusiasm and the interest in STEM subjects.” mentioned Pollard.
“And then if we can get it to carry on through high school, we get them into university and then engineering.”
“We need more scientists and engineers and architects and mathematicians in the biz.”
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