Ten high schools offering an engineering track (5 in the morning session and 5 in the afternoon session) are participating; they were selected on April 8 by a random drawing conducted before a notary public from among the 41 applicants. Each high school is represented by a team consisting of at least one teacher and two to five students in grades 10 through 12.
This activity, which runs from April 14 to 25, consists of three phases: training by ORT University faculty on the use of the Lego Mindstorms NXT robot kit, practice, and competition. The kit contains 577 building pieces and programmable devices for creating smart and fun robots.
The competition, which consists of two challenges in which the 10 teams will be able to test their creativity and ingenuity in building and programming robots, will take place on Friday, April 25, at the School of Engineering. Regardless of the outcome, each high school will receive the Lego Mindstorm NXT kit used by its representative team during the two-week activity for educational use.