Team represent England in robot contest finals in China
Published Date:
15 August 2008
FOUR pupils from Stonyhurst College have returned from a trip to China where they represented England in the World RoboCup Junior competition.
Joe Lea (17), Padraig Alton (17), Rebecca Waring (16) and Philip Alton (16) all enjoy building and testing miniature robots in their spare time.
They spent four days of "two-on-two" soccer competitions in Suzhou, China. The robots used played games in pairs against opposing pairs using only sensors.
"Being picked to go to China to represent England was fantastic," said Joe. "China was amazing, it's a completely different culture."
The Stonyhurst pupils played against teams from Israel, China, Hungary, Germany, Saudi Arabia and Japan. After four days of competitions they narrowly missed out on qualifying for the quarterfinals, eventually finishing 32nd out of 49 teams.
After the competition ended, the team travelled to Shanghai to host a reception at the Hyatt hotel and went sightseeing in the city.
"Meeting teams from other countries was great fun and hopefully there will be another competition in Germany next year, which we are keen to enter," said Joe.
RoboCup Junior is a schools-based robotics competition and there are regular events at local, national and international level. More than 30 countries worldwide participate.
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15 August 2008 2:31 PM
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