ECS team sweeps robotic competition

“(We're) thrilled for the girls," said Lauren Aslin, ECS's Director of Information Technology and Curriculum Integration.

ECS is the first all-girls team to win the Robot War, and the first all-girls team to be declared overall champions.

"They have worked so hard and fought as a solid team so brilliantly,” added Aslin, who also served as the robotics staff advisor.

Each year, CRC organizers devise a new game to challenge students’ ability to build and promote — through a video, website, kiosk, and journal — a robot they design themselves. Port-O-Toss, the game for this year’s competition, called for a robot that participants could steer into place and then have fling beanbags at a grid, flipping panels to display team colours. The team with the most turned panels won the heat.

In heat after heat, ECS robot 'CabarECS' triumphed, and ultimately the team took the gold in the Robot Wars category.

By Saturday night, the ECS team discovered they had also won the coveted First Place Overall Champions gold cup, after adding a gold in the video category, silver in website, silver in kiosk, and bronze for sportsmanship to their impressive Robot Wars result.