Students compete in 'sports for the brain'

Nineteen teams from local and district schools, plus a visiting team from Toronto, met this weekend to battle it out in a 2-vs-2 robotic basketball event, as part of the VEX Robotics High School Qualifying series. 

Part of a series of events being held in over twenty countries worldwide, this local competition saw one hundred and twenty students, from grades 7 to 12, display their engineering, programming and driving skills in a series of robotics matches, skills challenges and judging categories. 

In the end, the overall “Excellence Award” winner, the top award in the day-long competition, was earned by the Superior Heights team “The BD-Boyz”, a group of grade-12’s who are in their third year competing in this league.

In the main 2-on-2 game event, the top-ranked BD-Boyz drafted the visiting Toronto team, “The Pace Invaders” and a grade eight team from Korah Intermediate School, “IKOR”, to form the champion game-winning alliance.