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HTLC hosts interschool RoboCup Junior event

03 July 2024

A RoboCup Junior regional event was staged at Horsham’s Holy Trinity Lutheran College, where the college hosted students from Mildura’s Chaffey Secondary College in a robotics competition.

Years five to nine students competed in teams to build robots to complete a range of courses and games against time limits, using coding and engineering skills to hone their robot’s capabilities. 

HTLC technology teacher Adam Engert said RoboCup provided not only mechanical but also social and personal benefits of working on a passion project within a team with like-minded people.

“Students learn about processes of design planning and product design as they develop skills and their robot, including hardware and software, throughout the year-long season,” he said.



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“The season asks them to complete several events and increases the difficulty and number of requirements as they progress from a friendly competitive regional workshop, receiving assistance from event coordinators, to individually competing against the best teams in the state or nation.”

Mr Engert said the robotic engineering experience gave students the chance to improve skills directly linked to the college’s technology curriculum.

RoboCup promotes STEM – science, technology, engineering, and maths – skills, which are transferable into the ‘real world’ in fields such as engineering, programming, and robotics, as well as building teamwork and co-operation. 

HTLC offers a variety of STEM-based opportunities, including robotics lunchtime programs and some after-school workshops to learn broad coding skills to create autonomous robots, as well as STEM electives in secondary school in media, visual communication, digital technologies, 3D printing and design, and the sciences. 

Last year, two year eight HTLC students finished fourth at RoboCup Junior Australian Open National Championships, after finishing second at a state level, where they also won a best regional design award. 

Mr Engert said HTLC students would again compete at RoboCup junior state competition in Melbourne in term three, with potential to qualify for the national competition.

People can learn more about the competition at www.robocupjunior.org.au.

The entire July 3, 2024 edition of The Weekly Advertiser is available online. READ IT HERE!