Robotics Club

The MGSC RoboSapiens have secured a grant supported by Walt Disney Australia to enter our school in the FIRST Lego League Challenge which is a robotics, coding and presentation competition run by FIRST Australia.

We currently have a team of 14 students from the Robotic Club supported by teacher mentors Elizabeth Leong and William Verimieff, that will be participating in this challenge which culminates with a competition day in November at Melbourne Girls’ College. The students are:

Kate Ovenden 8
Viha Shah 7
Trinity Taylor 8
Ava Collins 8
Maria Corriea Pinto 7
Sofia Nikitina 7
Vivienne Slamat 10
Alex Arvanitis 10
Jasmine Allen 7
Taliah O'Quely 7
Naysha Fahey 8
Maisy Woodhouse 7
Laura Lu 7
Elsa Yu 7
Harini Geetha Ashok Balaji 11 & STEAM Captain

This year’s challenge is called Cargo Connect and the team needs to prepare a presentation, design, build and code their robot to perform specified tasks relating to the theme. The theme is all about transporting things all around the world. A sneak peek can be viewed here. The students will be grouped into teams each with their own tasks of designing, building, coding and presenting the final product.

If any students would like to be a part of the team, it’s not too late! Get in touch with Miss Elizabeth Leong (09931826@mgsc.vic.gov.au).

Parents, family and friends who would like to help coach, mentor or support the inaugural MGSC RoboSapiens team, please get in touch with Miss Leong as well.

FIRST Lego League Challenge link:

https://firstaustralia.org/programs/first-lego-league/

Elizabeth Leong

Science teacher and Robotics Club Coordinator