All roads lead to Cork this week for S.N. Taobhóige in Cloghan.
That’s because three students from the school will travel to compete in the VEX National Championship Final.
Finlay Mac Eacháin (Rang 4) , Oliver Dunkley and Andrew Ó Tuairisc (Rang 6) from the small rural Gaeltacht school in Cloghan, competed in the North West Regional Final in the ATU last month.
The Northwest Final was the largest in the country, with 29 robots involved.
The VEX IQ Robotics Competition enhances pupils’ science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills through hands-on, student-centred learning.
This is a world wide competition, with teams qualifying from this week’s National Finals to compete in the World Championships in May.
The pupils have built and named their robot ‘Jeremiah’ with the clear objectives of the game in mind – to pass the balls between robots, to score balls through targets, and to clear switches, whilst also writing code as Gaeilge for the autonomous coding challenge.
“Is acmhainn iontach é go raibh an rogha ag na garsuaraí cód i nGaeilge a scríobh,” a dúirt an Príomhoide Gwendoline Ní Fhiograí.”
Thug sé seans dúinne, mar scoil Ghaeltachta, forbairt a dhéanamh ar an Ghaeilge tríd an clár STEM. Tá pobal na scoile uilig an-bhrodúil as na garsuaraí agus an méid atá bainte amach acu so chomórtas go dtí seo. Guímid gach rath orthu i gCorcaigh, ach níos tábhachtaí go mbaineann siad sult as an chomórtas uilig.”
