Two Wangaratta schools battled it out in the final of the national VEX Robotics championships on Saturday, with Galen Catholic College emerging triumphant over the Borinya school.
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Galen science teacher Maree Timms was wrapped with the event in the college’s gym, and said the games required collaboration between schools from all over Australia with their self-built robots.
“Two teams are randomly drawn to form an alliance against another two teams,” she said.
“For example, the Galen team found out who their team was and compared robots to settle on a good strategy. As a teacher, that’s the most exciting thing, because they have to learn how to collaborate with people they’ve never met before.”
Each two-minute match somewhat resembled volleyball, where robots were programmed to collect stars and cubes on a court.
Ms Timms said the program would place students in good stead with coding skills for jobs of the future, which would increasingly involve operating robots.
