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6 Tuesday <strong>February</strong> 5 <strong>2019</strong><br />
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Students nuts and bolts about robots<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
BURNSIDE HIGH School<br />
students with a flair for<br />
electronics will take their own<br />
robot to a national competition.<br />
Aditi Sharma, Alisha Sangwan<br />
and Aarya Advilkar have spent<br />
hours joining wheels, axles,<br />
motors and gears to create their<br />
own robotic machine.<br />
But the hard work has paid<br />
off, with the students travelling<br />
to the Vex Robotics National<br />
Competition in Auckland later<br />
this month.<br />
The competition requires<br />
students to build and<br />
programme a robot, which<br />
will then undertake a series of<br />
challenges.<br />
The students have designed<br />
their robot to launch balls<br />
through a catapult design, go up<br />
onto platforms and flip flags.<br />
It is controlled by a remote<br />
controller.<br />
Aditi, 15, said it is an<br />
opportunity for them as they can<br />
meet other people who share the<br />
same interests.<br />
They have been working on<br />
building the robot since January<br />
last year and have spent time in<br />
their school holidays working on<br />
the project.<br />
BUILDERS: Burnside High School students Alisha Sangwan, Aditi Sharma and Aarya Advilkar will<br />
be taking their robot to the Vex Robotics National Competition<br />
Alisha, 13, said the students<br />
are hoping to earn a good<br />
placing in the competition.<br />
“Top 50 would be good, but the<br />
least would be getting experience<br />
and new ideas of what other<br />
people think,” she said.<br />
All three students share an<br />
interest in electronics and how<br />
robotics could impact society in<br />
the future.<br />
Alisha said while she doesn’t<br />
think “robots are going to take<br />
over the world” learning about<br />
them is helpful if you want<br />
to go into different types of<br />
technology.<br />
She said the programming<br />
for the robot has similarities to<br />
science, technology, engineering<br />
and mathematics.<br />
Aarya, 14, said she “likes<br />
robotics so much” and thinks<br />
it will help her in the future as<br />
she is considering becoming an<br />
architect.<br />
“I like to plan ideas for the<br />
robots and how it can compete<br />
in the game and how it can fulfil<br />
the task within the game,” she<br />
said.<br />
Aditi said she is taking three<br />
technology subjects this year and<br />
is interested in pursuing a career<br />
in engineering.<br />
“I think robots would be a<br />
good part of society, they can<br />
help in so many ways. They can<br />
do things humans can’t,” she<br />
said.<br />
About 80 teams from around<br />
New Zealand are taking part in<br />
the event which aims to increase<br />
the awareness of robotics in<br />
school communities.<br />
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