 |
The winning team at the Innovation Nation Robotics Competition, from Oakville Trafalger High School in Oakville, Ont., operate their robot on location in Huntsville, Ont., July 18. Team members Eric Atkinson and Evelyn Wainewright manipulate Xbox controllers while a crouching Nick Bandiera, operates another device. Courtesy Nick Whittaker/OTHS Robotics (from CBC News, July 19, 2011)
|
On July 19, the OTHS Red Devils were awarded first prize in the Innovation Nation Robotics Competition held at Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, Ontario. The competition was just one event featured in a conference hosted by the St. Joseph’s Healthcare Centre for Surgical Invention and Innovation which included presentations by leading academics, businesses and innovators in the field of robotics. The conference emphasized the importance of collaboration between disciplines and the challenges of making a good idea into a marketable product.
Our team competed against high school teams from Abbey Park in Oakville and Our Lady of Lourdes High School in Guelph (FRC Team 2609) as well as the York University Rover team, Laurentian University’s Lunabot and the Automated Transport System from Seneca College. In addition to demonstrating our robots many functions, we also made a convincing case for practical uses of our robot’s technology in the field of medicine. Congratulations to Abbey Park Robotics for winning best high school presentation and Team Production from Laurentian for winning best university presentation. We learned an incredible amount from the other fine robotics presentations and were inspired by the career possibilities that were explored in the enthusiastic talks of the renowned guest speakers.
