Raymond Terrace Public School to compete in Robocup FEATURED Medowie & Tilligerry News Of The Area Raymond Terrace, Heatherbrae, Tomago by News Of The Area - Modern Media - June 22, 2018 Jasmine Cook, Phynix Bridge, Dr Aaron Wong, Joel Anderson, Caleb Whitter, Silas Aguis, Jackson Cheetham and Jaxon Hatch being presented the Robotic kits. FIVE teams from Raymond Terrace Public School will be competing in the 2018 Robocup Junior Hunter Region Event to be held at the University of Newcastle in August, after they were recently awarded paid entry into RoboCup Junior and a gift of a $500 EV3 Lego Mindstorm Robotic Kit, courtesy of Dr Aaron Wong. Modern Media: Advertise with News Of The Area and you get your ad in 1) in Print, 2) on the News Website (like this ad), and 3) on our Social Media news site. A much more efficient way to advertise. Reach a HUGE audience for a LOW price TODAY! Call us on 02 4983 2134. Or media@newsofthearea.com.au Or CLICK FOR ADVERT QUOTE “Coming off the back of two trophies in last year’s Lego League Competition, this is our first year in RoboCup Junior which is run by The University of Newcastle’s Robotics Laboratory,” Raymond Terrace Public School teacher Bernadette Van De Wijgaart told News Of The Area. RoboCupJunior is a project-oriented educational initiative that focuses on education. RoboCup itself is an international effort whose purpose is to foster Artificial Intelligence, otherwise known as “AI”. The Robocup Junior competition consists of three distinct sections: Robocup Junior OnStage Performance, RoboCup Junior Rescue and Robocup Junior Soccer. In the OnStage Performance section, participants are required to design, build and program their robots to dance to music in an integration of Science, Technology and the Arts. The Rescue component consists of robots following a winding line on a series of tiles to a designated rescue area encountering obstacles, bridges and short cut opportunities that will challenge programmers. As for the final soccer section, students are required to design, build, and program two robots to compete in a game of robot soccer against another pair of robots. “We work every Wednesday afternoon on computational thinking and robotic computer programming and are putting every effort into developing our robots ready for competition at the University in August,” Ms Van De Wijgaart told News Of The Area. We wish them all the best of luck. By Rachael VAUGHAN Silas Aguis, Dr Aaron Wong and Oska Greentree (Captain of Raymond Terrace Public School).
