First Nations team member DJ Maiangowi prepares a ring which will be grabbed by his team's robot during a qualifying match at the FIRST Championship, on Thursday, Apr. 25, 2019 in Detroit, Mich.

Northern students compete in robotics competition Students from five schools mostly in northeastern Ontario competed in a robotics challenge after designing and building their own robot.

She's like, 'bring your geek out'," says Grade 10 student Louize Lacson, who is building the robot's electrical unit, also known as "the brain of the whole robot." FIRST Robotics requires teams to ...

Members of OP Robotics, a FIRST Robotics team at Orchard Park Secondary School, stand with their robot, Low Key, at the Ontario district competition hosted at McMaster University on March 29 and 30.

But it was also inspiring — because the robots were designed by teams of high-school students participating in the FIRST Robotics Competition, a contest that’s been going on for 21 years now.

A few secondary school teams from the Hamilton area are competing against 400 teams at the FIRST Robotics world championship, which runs April 20 to 23, in Houston, Texas.

Mixed Metal Robotics, a program offered by Sarnia’s Mastermind Youth Foundation, received rookie all-star recognition last weekend from judges at a FIRST Robotics Competition at the University ...

This weekend’s FIRST Robotics Windsor Essex Great Lakes competition may look like a video game come to life, but for employers it’s like scouting the STEM version of the Canadian Hockey League ...