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From Canada Newswire:
Media Advisory - FIRST Robotics Competition - Greater Toronto Regional Event
The Competition for 'First' is on... First Robotics is North America's
Largest High School Robotics Competition
TORONTO, March 31 /CNW/ - About three thousand students from almost 70
schools across Canada and the U.S. have been hard at work designing and
building robots to take part in the 2005 FIRST Robotics Greater Toronto
Regional competition - the largest high school robotics competition in North
America.
As part of the competition, students are given six weeks to design, build
and test a robot. At the regional competition, these robots must work
cooperatively and in competition in the context of a game that challenges the
limits of the robots and the students.
What: Largest high school robotics competition in North America -
FIRST Robotics Toronto Regional
Who: About three thousand students from almost 70 schools across
Canada and the U.S.
Why: To develop students' skills in problem solving, leadership,
teamwork as well as in manufacturing, testing and operating a
robot.
Where: The Hershey Centre, 5500 Rose Cherry Place, Mississauga
When:
Friday, April 1 - Open Competition
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9:00 a.m. - Opening ceremony
- Hon. Joseph Cordiano, Ontario Minister of Economic
Development & Trade
9:20 - 12:00 noon - Robotics matches
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. - Lunch
1:00 - 4:45 p.m. - Robotics matches continue
4:45 p.m. - Awards ceremony
Saturday, April 2 - Open Competition and Playoffs
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9:00 a.m. - Opening ceremony - Michael Grimaldi, president,
GM Canada
9:20 - 12:00 noon - Robotics matches
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. - Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. - Robotics match (playoffs)
3:00 p.m. - Awards ceremony
The GTA Regional robotics competition is a program of FIRST (For
Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a non-profit
organization founded in 1989 by inventor and scientist Dean Kamen, the
inventor of the Segway personal transportation device. FIRST now reaches over
80,000 students in 21 countries around the world.
FIRST Robotics Competition Greater Toronto Regional is lead sponsored by
General Motors of Canada Ltd. Other sponsors include: MD Space Missions,
Imperial Oil Foundation, Province of Ontario, Scotiabank, Bell Canada, Boston
Scientific Canada, CAE, Dow Chemical Canada, Intier, Kingbridge Centre,
Ontario Power Generation, University of Waterloo Engineering and Math.
More information and directions can be found at
www.firstcanadianregional.org
For further information: Vance Scott, (416) 819-4159; Gord Homer,
(416) 347-8916; Carey-Ann Greenham, (905) 644-1824
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