Thomas Snella making final adjustments to his winning robot.
The RoboSlam volunteer team was in full force last Friday, guiding robot builders to victory in the 3rd National Robo Sumo Intervarsity competition. Friday’s RoboSlam and Saturday’s national competition took place during the 2015 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.
At the competition, DIT first-year student Thomas Snella (DT066) took the top prize. He will continue on to the European finals.
A cross-disciplinary team of DIT engineers of Seamus Mac Lú (DT008), Aoife Redmond (DT009), Samantha Williams (DT066A), and David White (DT006) won 2nd place.
DIT lecturer John McGrory assisting the seocnd place team: Seamus McLu, Samantha Williams, David White, and Aoife Redmond.
And, DIT’s Michael O Meara and Alex Helizon (DT021) made the semi-finals of the competition.
DIT students came to the prep day (shown in the photos below) well prepared. Thomas had designed and built his robot in the autumn as part of the common first year program that all 4-year engineering students at DIT now take. Members of the second place team built their robot start-to-finish at our prep event, but each of them had previously built a RoboSlam robot as a mini project during the previous year at DIT.
One of the highlights of our prep day was that the secondary school students did such a marvelous job constructing their robots. We hope to see them at RoboSlam events again soon!
RoboSlam volunteers from DIT: (back row) Paula Kelly, Ted Burke, Frank Duignan, Shane Ormonde, John McGrory, Shannon Chance, (front row) Damon Berry and Ruth Coffey
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- Thomas Snella making final adjustments to his winning robot.
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- Team
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- RoboSlam volunteers from DIT: (back row) Paula Kelly, Ted Burke, Frank Duignan, Shane Ormonde, John McGrory, Shannon Chance, (front row) Damon Berry and Ruth Coffey
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