For the second year running, a team from Layman E. Scott High School are overall winners of the SeaPerch Challenge where 21 teams from six schools participated in an underwater robotics challenge at the Camana Bay pool on Saturday 18 March.
Mapping the sea floor, marine life interaction and water sample collection are some of the ways remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are used in ocean exploration. They are also three tasks that students participating in this year’s SeaPerch underwater robotics challenge will be required to complete on the mission course.
Cayman International School topped a field of seven local high schools in the 2023 FIRST Tech Challenge, a robotics competition with a renewable energy theme celebrating achievements of young people in robotics.
The energy was electric at the annual Minds Inspired robotics interschool competition as seven high schools put their robots through their paces in the FIRST Tech arena. After multiple rounds navigating obstacles, shifting alliances and overcoming technical challenges, an exciting final match saw two teams from Cayman International School (CIS) in an alliance against two teams from John Gray High school (JGHS). It was a nail-biting finish with the first game going to CIS, the second to JGHS, and CIS emerging victorious in the final round.
Wonder what it takes to win the Indy500? This year’s champion Marcus Ericsson and Data & Systems Engineer for his No. 8 Honda car, Angela Ashmore, joined fellow Chip Ganassi Racing team member Kyffin Simpson at Camana Bay to explain the partnership between driving and technology.
Maths stars from nine high schools gathered at University College of the Cayman Islands last week to test their calculation and puzzle-solving skills at the 10th annual Minds Inspired Maths Challenge.