Île-à-la-Crosse robotics club places at Skills Canada competition
The Rossignol High School robotics club is becoming a force to be reckoned with.
Students in the Île-à-la-Crosse club had a strong showing at Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s Sumobot challenge, placing second at the Skills Canada Provincial Competition in Regina April 13.
“We were pretty pleased, to say the least,” Dave Dalton, the math and science teacher who runs the club said about the silver medal.
Dalton said the club was given a challenge to design, build and troubleshoot a robot early in the school year. Students had to construct a well, which pumped “oil” into and along a pipeline to the “refinery,” or a predetermined endpoint. While simple in concept, he said the project challenged the students.