Education: November 2008 Archives
The senior cycle SchoolBots competition was featured on RTE's website in the tecnology news section. This coverage along with several articles that have appeared in several news papers are helping to promote this Google and Lenovo sponsored event. Closing date for entries is Dec 12th 2008. See Schoolbots.ie for more information.
As the deadline for Dec 12th for submission of SchoolBot Robots gets closer the traffic to www.schoolbots.ie from across the country is increasing. Student and teachers are gleaning sample robots, survival tips and programming nuggets from the website. Their quest is to build a robot that will be the best and destroy the rest.
This Google and Lenovo sponsored competition is proving very popular with Transition Year students. 5 schools will attend a SchoolBots Masterclass next Wednesday Nov 12th as part of Science week. This master class will cover topics such as radar targeting and bearing offsets for gun turning calculations. There are only a few places left for schools who want to register for this event.
