Congratulations to Scoil Eoin’s Robotics team who won the VEX IQ Robotics 2017 Robotics and Programming Award at this year’s Irish Championships. Our robot, Mister Lifter earned the highest score in both sections, fighting off the effort of 50 other competing schools.
The judges were very impressed with the Scoil Eoin pit, which attracted great attention throughout the day, including the TV3 cameras. Catch John’s interview on the 12:30 News on the TV3 Player.
The judges were also very impressed with the boys project on An Automated Carpark. Quey, the competition mascot also stopped to check out the project.
The boys did brilliantly driving Mister Lifter during the Teamwork Challenge. The boys had eight very testing matches, where they were paired with another school to score the maximum points they could. Scoil Eoin scored the highest points of all 51 and were seeded Number One going into the finals. The finals were very exciting and it came down to the wire. Scoil Eoin were incredibly unlucky and didn’t quit manage to to top the highest score set in the final. Difficult to be pipped to the post, but we are incredibly proud of the fantastic boys who represented the school brilliantly on the day.
