London Youth Robotics Conference

On Saturday 24 June students from Robotics club and lessons attended the first ever London Youth Robotics Conference at St Paul’s Girls School, Hammersmith.

Exhibitions included The Mars Rover presented by UCL, Robots of London: robot dog and Seal, InMoov Cambridge: a life sized fully 3D printed humanoid robot and Sean Rodrigo: Robots in Virtual Reality to name but a few. Students were given the opportunity to build and program unfamiliar systems and meet ‘real-life’ roboticists and their creations.

Our 2022-23 Middle School VEX IQ teams Niti (L5 Aleph), Diya (L5 Alpha), Riya and Purvi (U4 Alpha) were asked to prepare a presentation outlining their competition experiences over the season. They presented twice during the day to an audience of students and experts. Their talk was very well received, with the organisers confirming that the HabsGirls talk was voted joint most popular with the sponsor’s talk!

‘The robotic dog’ - a working replica of the Boston Dynamics dog, produced a considerable ‘wow’ factor – this was a professional presentation by a very successful entertainments company, so it is even more impressive that the attendees were so taken with your students.’

Miss Percy and Mrs Findley are hugely proud of everyone who attended and Mrs Findley looks forward to a successful competition season in September.