Teacher Lee Awad, centre, works on their robot with students Jake Blythe, left, and Steven Ward on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. They hope to make it to Detroit this year where the 2018 FIRST Robotics Global Championship is being held. The Sandwich Secondary School’s Robotics team, “Sabre Bytes” is one of the most established local teams and has been to the world championships. Koscielski is confident at least three local teams will make it to Detroit. Last year, the Windsor area sent three teams to the world championships and four the year before. He said the local program has ballooned over the past five years from about 50 students to approximately 1,200 today in Windsor, Essex and Chatham-Kent.Ĭanada is a FIRST Robotics powerhouse, and Michigan has the highest number of teams of any state in the U.S. “This really changes lives,” said FIRST Robotics regional chairman Larry Koscielski, a vice-president at industrial company CenterLine (Windsor) Ltd. The best move on to the FIRST Ontario Provincial Championships, April 12-14 in Mississauga. Denis Centre hosts a Windsor Essex Great Lakes Event March 30-31, with 38 teams registered. To get to Detroit, teams must get through district competitions and then a provincial championship. “A program like FIRST Robotics, and an event like this, prepares us for the next Amazon bid - this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” said Kusmierczyk, who helped introduce and expand FIRST Robotics in Windsor. FIRST Robotics is all about injecting into youth an enthusiasm for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Photo by Dan Janisse / Windsor Starĭetroit-Windsor didn’t make the shortlist of candidates for a multibillion-dollar Amazon investment, partly because of a perceived lack of local tech skills and talent. Teacher Lee Awad, works on their robot with students Steven Ward, foreground, and Jake Blythe on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. What makes it an even bigger sporting event, said Kusmierczyk, will be its lasting impact. “This is bigger than the Super Bowl, it’s huge.” This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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