Kamloops students battle it out at robotics competition

Jun 6, 2018 | 5:02 PM

KAMLOOPS — 40 Students from 10 different schools throughout School District 73 showed off their science skills at Thompson Rivers University today.

Elementary school kids from grade 2 to grade 7 competed in Kamloops’ first Robotics competition. Students used several different types of robots to work together, problem solve and understand how things work. 

“We’ve got two different robots that are currently in action doing a maze challenge, so they’re programmed in different ways one uses block coding with the computer program, and the other one is pushing in directions on top of the robot,” says Elizabeth deVries,  District Technology Coordinator. “Students are asked to go through the maze and in some of the challenges they have to have the robot pick something up and move some blocks in the different landscape that they’re facing, so it’s been neat.”