Some of the best minds in the world of robotics will be coming to Georgian College's Barrie campus this weekend.

It will be an epic battle of robots as the college hosts the fourth annual FirstRobotics competition on Saturday and Sunday, in collaboration with First Robotics Canada.

There will be 29 teams of high school students, including six from Simcoe County, Grey County and Muskoka,who will compete using robots they designed, built, programmed and tested.

The competition includes900 team supporters,100 volunteers, including many Georgian staff and students, as well as numerous dignitaries who will be on hand to take it all in.

The opening ceremonies are set for 11 a.m. on Saturday, with qualification matches to begin to take place from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m., followed by more qualifiers in the afternoon from 2:30 p.m. until 7 p.m.

Sunday will see elimination matches from 1-4 p.m., followed by the presentation of awards and the closing ceremonies from 4 p.m. until 5:30 p.m.

All of the action takes place in the Athletics Centre at the college, which is located at 1 Georgian Dr.

FirstRobotics Canada, which was started in 2002, has more than 1,000 teams in Canada and now reaches in excess of20,000 Canadian students.

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