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THE FREE PRESS Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Robotics club is world class By Rebecca Edwards Free Press Staff
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hiz-kids are hoping to compete in a robotics world championships – if they can raise enough funds to travel. Fernie Secondary School Robotics Club has won a place in the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championships in Atlanta, USA next month. The group of eight students got through to the competition after taking first place in the Canadian Inspire Award in Red Deer earlier this month. From April 14-17 they will compete against more than 500 teams from more than 25 countries, designing and constructing a robot that can shoot balls and navigate a course. The team is made up of Grade 8 students John Iddon, Colin Li, Cole Goodman; Grade 9 students Ashleigh and Alexandria Butala; Grade 11 student Darby Gravelle and Grade
12 students Christopher Atherton, William Butala. The coach is Bill Bell. But before they get there, the team must raise $15,000 and parent mentor Karri Iddon says they need the community’s help. “The difficulty for our team at this time is that seeing as the world championship is only a month away it does not give us very much time to raise the money to get our team to the competition and it is going to cost the team over $15,000 to go,� she said. “Our club does not have extra funds. We have relied on our sponsors to get the equipment required to build our robot and these were donated to our team in the beginning of the school year. “We are hoping that we can find some more sponsorship right away or the team will not be able to go to the world championship, which would be such a disappointment as the team has worked very hard to get the opportun-
Fernie Robotics Club receives a cheque from Christine Grimble of Fernie Alpine Resort. The team includes Grade 8 students John Iddon, Colin Li, Cole Goodman; Grade 9 students Ashleigh and Alexandria Butala; Grade 11 Darby Gravelle; Grade 12 Christopher Atherton, William Butala, coach Bill Bell and parent mentor Karri Iddon.
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ity to compete at the world championship.� Current team sponsors are Best Buy, BC Hydro, City of Fernie, Crystal
Glass, Emily Brydon Youth Foundation, Fernie Auto Parts, Fernie Lions Club, King Fir Ventures, Knights of Columbus,
School District #5, Stratton Plumbing & Heating, RCR Summit Fund, Teck, W.Ingram Home Building Materials and the
3300 Club.
For more information on how to help the group call 250 423 7589.
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