Victoria Robotics Club

The Victoria Robotics Club was created to give children and youth an opportunity to build and program robots while exploring the fun world of science and technology.

In the fall, we have a FIRST LEGO Team (FLL) that designs and builds a robot to accomplish missions and completes a theme related research project. In the last two years, the research projects have included an energy audit on Spinnakers Brewpub and looking at solutions to the beach erosion at Esquimalt Lagoon. With both their research projects and their robots, the team enters a competition with over 10,000 teams around the world. In the past two years, our team has qualified for the BC Provincial FLL Tournament.

In the spring, we work with kids to create a demonstration of robotics at a local science fair. Last year they created a Robotic Zoo with everything from a spider to a dinosaur, or tested different ways to build a better robot.

In the summer, we hold a week long camp or work shops to learn new robotic skills. These workshops have involved building robots to explore a fictional Mayan Temple and trying to rescue a stranded scientific team on Mars using robots. The kids have had a lot fun with challenges while learning more about the capabilities of their robots.  Find out more about upcoming Mayan Adventure Robotics Camps.

In the fall of 2009, we started a FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) team for youth in high school. The teams will design and build robots for competition rounds where they have to form alliances with other teams so their robots can work together to score more points than the competing alliance teams.