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Minds Inspired Maths Challenge

Students showcase skills at 2023 Minds Inspired Maths Challenge

Published: 22 November 2023

Some of the brightest young minds in the Cayman Islands gathered to demonstrate their problem-solving prowess as they competed in the 11th annual Minds Inspired Maths Challenge last week. 

Held at the University College of the Cayman Islands, from 16-17 November, the event brought together a total of 175 high school students from 10 public and private schools in Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac. 

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FIRST Global Challenge 2023 – journey to Singapore

Published: 07 November 2023

The Cayman Islands national robotics team recently competed at the 2023 FIRST Global Challenge in Singapore. Team manager Glenda McTaggart gave Camana Bay Times the inside scoop.

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Cayman Robotics Team ranks 89th at FIRST Global Challenge in Singapore, inspiring youth in science and tech since 2018.

Cayman’s National Robotics Team gains valuable experience at FIRST Global Challenge in Singapore

Published: 01 November 2023

The Cayman Islands National Robotics Team returned home ranked 89th (out of 191 teams) after travelling to Singapore for the 2023 FIRST Global Challenge in early October. FIRST, or For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, is a global organisation focussed on inspiring young people to become science and technology leaders and innovators. Joining the programme in 2018, previous Cayman National Robotics Teams competed in Mexico, Dubai and Switzerland.

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Cayman Islands National Robotics Team heads to Singapore

Published: 26 July 2023

The Cayman Islands National Robotic Team is joining teams from 190 countries at the 2023 FIRST Global Challenge, in Singapore, October 7-10. There they will reimagine the future of energy and the ways in which we power our planet. The Cayman Islands National Robotic Team (the team) will collaborate with thousands of students to highlight the importance of renewable energy and its potential to create a better, more sustainable future.

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Brac robots continue to rule the pool at SeaPerch Challenge

Published: 22 March 2023

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.

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From the pool to the ocean: applying underwater robotics skills in real life

Published: 13 March 2023

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.

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CIS tops interschool robotics competition field

Published: 02 March 2023

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.

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CIS wins Power Play at 2023 FIRST Tech Challenge

Published: 09 February 2023

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.

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The science behind winning the Indy500

Published: 08 December 2022

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.

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172 young mathematicians compete in 2022 Minds Inspired Maths Challenge

Published: 21 November 2022

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. 

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Cayman competes at the FIRST Global Challenge

Cayman competes at the FIRST Global Challenge

Published: 09 November 2022

Michael Marzouca is a 2019 Dart Scholar and member of the Cayman Islands national robotics team that recently competed in Geneva, Switzerland, as part of the 2022 FIRST Global Challenge. The competition featured high school students from more than 180 countries and aims to promote science and technology leadership and innovation in young people. We asked Michael to reflect on the experience.

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Will.I.Am and Cayman Islands National Robotics team First Global Challenge

On Swiss time: the Cayman Islands National Robotics team’s week in Geneva at the FIRST Global Challenge

Published: 31 October 2022

Monday 10 October 2022 

After two months designing, building and programming our robot, seven students and two coaches from the Cayman Islands National Robotics team jetted off to Geneva, Switzerland with Mangrover the robot safely encased in a custom-made box. No trip would be complete without the traditional team photo at the airport!

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Cayman Islands National Robotics team and Governor Martyn Roper

Made in Cayman: ‘Mangrover’ the carbon-catching robot

Published: 10 October 2022

Grand Cayman, 10 October 2022: the Cayman Islands National Robotics team is flying to Geneva, Switzerland today to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge international robotics tournament with Mangrover, the robot they have custom-designed and built to represent the Cayman Islands in the ‘Carbon Capture’ themed event.

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Forging a path for women in STEM

Published: 03 October 2022

Grand Cayman, 3 October 2022: two young Caymanians, Emma Turnbull and Anja van Genderen, are at the cutting edge of scientific research as they continue their post-graduate studies in the STEM-related fields of virology and biochemistry. 

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These STEM students spent their summers building robots and preparing to compete on the international stage at the FIRST Global Competition in Switzerland.

Robotics team gears up for world stage

Published: 13 September 2022

While their peers enjoyed vacation far away from the inside of a school, this group of students spent their summer days sitting together in a quiet classroom.

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Meet Cayman's FIRST Global Challenge robotics team

Meet Cayman's FIRST Global Challenge robotics team

Published: 09 September 2022

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Cayman Islands Chess Olympiad Team

The Cayman Islands Chess Olympiad Team announced

Published: 13 July 2022

The Cayman Islands National Chess Team will represent the country at the 44th Chess Olympiad to be held in Chennai, India at the end of July, marking the first time the Cayman Islands has competed in person at the Chess Olympiad.

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Cayman Islands National Robotics Team 2022

Cayman Islands National Robotics Team 2022 announced

Published: 29 June 2022

Grand Cayman, 29 June 2022: Nine Cayman Islands’ high school students will head to Geneva, Switzerland in October to compete against robotics teams from 180 countries in the FIRST Global Challenge.

Announced this week, the 2022 National Robotics team includes students from five high schools in the Cayman Islands: Maxwell Clarke, Alexander Walters and Kyah Morris (Cayman International School), Adi Binoy (Cayman Prep & High School), Marissa Wright and Teejhan Hansraj (John Gray High School), Diamond White and Michael Marzouca (St Ignatius Catholic School) and Drew Plania (Triple C).

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Dart Employees speak about STEM careers to high school students

The journey from high school to careers in STEM 

Published: 01 June 2022

Want to be an architect or engineer? Or not sure what jobs you can do with high school maths and science?  

Two young Caymanians shared their journey from school to university to jobs at Dart at the recent Career Guidance Programme hosted by Minds Inspired and the Cayman Society of Architects, Surveyors and Engineers (CASE). 

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Robots solve shipping issues at FIRST Tech Challenge

Published: 08 April 2022

Empty shelves at the supermarket. Cargo ships queuing at ports. A shortage of truck drivers. Rising fuel costs and longer delivery times. Disruptions to the global supply chains over the past two years have created a freight frenzy that has impacted us all.

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 FIRST Tech Challenge 2022

‘Grogu’ and ‘Herbert’ win inter-school robotics competition at the FIRST Tech Challenge 2022

Published: 28 March 2022

Ten robots battled it out at the FIRST Tech Challenge on Saturday 26 March, competing for accuracy and speed as they maneuvered around the arena. Eighty students from five high schools in Grand Cayman designed, built, programmed and operated robots to compete in the inter-school tournament and for the chance to be selected in the Cayman Islands International robotics team.

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Brac teams sweep the board at SeaPerch underwater robotics competition

Brac teams sweep the board at SeaPerch underwater robotics competition

Published: 15 March 2022

Teams from Cayman Brac’s Layman E. Scott High School took first and second places in both middle- and high-school divisions of this year’s Minds Inspired SeaPerch Challenge held at Camana Bay Sports Complex pool on Saturday 12 March. Overall champions were middle school students Jovier Walton- Paz and Jaden Ebanks with their team the “Brac Bots.”

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Journalism and Media Summer Camp inspires young reporters Cayman islands

Journalism and Media Summer Camp inspires young reporters

Published: 31 August 2021

Industry-led summer camp introduces aspiring journalists to art of storytelling through technology

In partnership with seven local media houses, Dart’s Minds Inspired facilitated the launch of a new summer camp to introduce high school students to the world of journalism and media.

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Minds Inspired launches new sustainable development challenge

Minds Inspired launches new sustainable development challenge

Published: 12 July 2021

Dart’s Minds Inspired is preparing to roll-out a new sustainable development education challenge to all local high schools in September 2021, following a successful pilot programme with Cayman International School.

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Finding myself during an internship

Finding myself during an internship

Published: 29 April 2021

By Kathleen Torio, a student at the Cayman Islands Further Education Centre

"I am completely lost," were the four words running through my mind at the speed of light on the first day of my internship.

I’m a student currently studying creative media at the Cayman Islands Further Education Centre. In order to graduate from the school, every student must undertake an internship with a local business. The internship offers students an opportunity to experience and enhance our knowledge and understanding of the world of work, helping prepare us for our chosen career paths.

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