Student Profile: Harvey Li

Adaptable and ready for anything

Grade 5 student Harvey Li has been interested in robotics from a young age. For three years, he has been in a robotics club outside of school where he has learned about coding, design, and even been to competitions.

“I really like to code, and I love to drive robots and design them, so I thought that maybe robotics is an activity that I would like to join and I really like it,” Harvey says.

Through his club he has been able to further his coding and technology skills, but he has also learned some valuable life lessons along the way.

“I learned that you don’t always get what you want because anything could happen. There’s always going to be mistakes. For example, you plan something, and you say it’s going to be perfect but there might be a big change, which I experienced,” he says.

He has learned to be adaptable and ready for anything.

One of Harvey’s favourite parts of robotics is going to competitions, not just because they’re fun but because of the time he spends learning with his peers.

“I like to collaborate with other teammates and teams and seeing how everybody’s robots work to make ours better,” he says.

Harvey isn’t old enough to join the robotics club at Pickering College, but he said right now his favourite co-curricular is soccer. This year he is playing defense.

He began attending Pickering College in Grade 1. His favourite class right now is math and when he grows up, Harvey says he is going to be a doctor.