George Flumerfelt admits he was floored when he first watched a Robotics event in North Bay. <\/p>\n
The CEO and President of the Redpath group initiallythought Robotics was only for nerds and intellects. <\/p>\n
He doesnt think that anymore. <\/p>\n
In fact,now the head of the mining contracting and engineering firm believes robotic teams may be developing future engineers. <\/p>\n
Thats why Flumerfelt is a Platinum Sponsor for theFIRST Robotics district event that will take place at Nipissing University from April 6th to 8th. <\/p>\n
We like to do things that benefit the youth in our community where its possible, said Flumerfelt. <\/p>\n
In our business - mining contractors and engineers - there is a fairly high technology component to what we do and people who could have a future with our company or the mining industry in general so its a natural sponsorship for us. <\/p>\n
Organizers of the event held a media launch Monday morning just in time for the competition season to start. <\/p>\n
Three northeastern Ontario teams were at the launch at Nipissing University includingFIRST Team 4069 from Lo-Ellen Robotics in Sudbury, FIRST Team 4152, Hoya Robotics out of Huntsville, and the host FIRST Team 1305, Ice Cubed out of North Bay. <\/p>\n
The North Bay team has been gearing up the competitive season as they have been working on their new robot since January 7th. <\/p>\n
This years competition theme is about steampunk, which is a genre of science fiction that has a historical setting and typically features steam-powered machinery rather than advanced technology. <\/p>\n
Disney is involved withFIRST Robotics now and they are promoting the games and making them really colourful and fun and playful, stated organizer Nancy Dewar-Stenning. <\/p>\n
So they have played up on the steampunk thing thats going on right now, so Steamworks is the name of the game and thats what they do. Theres an airship, its a complex game and its a lot of fun. <\/p>\n
Ice Cubed team member Jessica Kelso is excited for the competitive season to begin. <\/p>\n
Today is a day to celebrate the build season is over and competition season is beginning so hopefully we are ready, she said. <\/p>\n
Kelso is also pumped knowing the big sponsors may be looking at future engineers during robotics competition. <\/p>\n
A lot of our sponsors in general are just people who are involved in our team event so they get so excited about it and its just a giant gym full of nerds but nerds about all different things, she said. <\/p>\n
The North Bay team will take part in its first robotics competition of the 2017 in Oshawa this weekend. <\/p>\n
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