Robotics Club

Robotics club is a wonderful opportunity for learning, and collaboration with your peers. It runs as a cocurricular on Thursdays from the end of school until 4:30. Once you’ve joined the club, you’ll form teams of 2 to 4 people, and from then on engage in entirely student based learning. The main focus of the robotics club is working towards the Australian robocup competition, groups will spend 3 terms building and developing their robot to compete in either a linefollow or soccer tournament. The first tournament you compete in is the state tournament, followed by nationals, and possibly even internationals.

This year’s state competition saw Fort St bring over 30 students representing more than 10 teams, the majority of these teams competed in the line-follow tournament, with two teams competing in soccer. The day of the tournament was very tense, yet rewarding, with teams rushing to fix problems or add new features in between their games. The year’s hard work paid off, however, with Fort St having three teams be awarded medals. In the soccer tournament, both teams played through the intense round robin, and managed to make it to finals, causing Fort Street to bring home the gold and silver medals in the soccer tournament. Fort St also managed to achieve a bronze medal in the linefollow tournament, which was won by a year 8 team. Ultimately Fort St achieved one of its best state performances in a while.

Sebastian Kameron Year 10