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Minto-Clifford students win gold in Lego Robotics at Skills Ontario

May 3, 2016

GUELPH, Ontario – A team of grade 7 students from Minto-Clifford Public School have taken home gold at the provincial skills competition.

The school’s intermediate team placed first in the Intermediate Lego Robotics event at the elementary Ontario Technological Skills Competition (OTSC) on Monday.

The team consisted of grade 7 students Julia, Jacob, Daniel, and Parker, who attended the competition at RIM Park in Waterloo with teacher Mr. Novikow.

Minto-Clifford students win gold in Lego Robotics at Skills Canada

Teams comprised of four students from school boards across Ontario competed in a friendly environment, demonstrating their creative, collaborative and problem-solving skills.

The OTSC challenge consisted of teams designing, constructing and programming autonomous Lego robots. The competition consisted of three challenges: traverse a maze, hit a ping pong ball and calculate the area of a rectangle.

Teams were scored on sound programming, knowledge, safety, presentation, teamwork and gracious professionalism.

Congratulations to Julia, Jacob, Daniel and Parker!

Minto-Clifford grade 7 students win gold in Lego Robotics at Skills Canada

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For more information:
Heather Loney, Communications and Community Engagement Officer
Upper Grand District School Board
519-822-4420 ext.725
[email protected]

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