High school students taking part in Curtin’s outreach robotics program recently travelled to Sydney to compete in the Asia-Pacific FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition (FRC).

The Curtin STEM Outreach FRC team competed against 46 other teams from across the Asia Pacific region, ultimately taking third place on the podium. This was a high reward for the 46 high school students from across Perth (and one from Albany) who spent their summer holidays on campus designing, building and coding a mechatronic machine under the guidance of Curtin Science and Engineering students.

Clocking up more than 300 hours to build their robot, the team was awarded the Engineering Excellence award for outstanding design and construction at this year’s event.

You can see the robot in action later in the year at the WA Robotics Playoffs at Curtin Stadium from 24 to 25 August.

A large cohort of students in pink polo shirts crowded around their robot. The robot is a construction of gears and motors with a rectangle red base with the number 4788 on the side. Next to the robot is a sign with the text "CRESCENDO" and a glass trophy.
Curtin Outreach FRC team with their excellently engineered robot and a trophy to prove it.