Jamaican High Schoolers Travel to Mexico to Compete in 2018 Robotics “Olympics”

Jamaicans.com

A team composed of Jamaican students from four island high schools will compete in the FIRST Global Challenge, an event described as a “robotics Olympics,” to be held in Mexico City.  The students from Calabar, Immaculate, Jamaica College, and Kingston College will join with teams from more than 100 countries from around the world on August 13, 2018, for the competition.

Team Jamaica Robotics is sponsored by the Union of Jamaican Alumni Associations, Inc., an organization based in the United States. The UJAA represents 53 member alumni associations in the US and organizes, coordinates, manages, and interfaces with FIRST Global. Jamaica’s Ministry of Education, Youth, and Information is also involved with the project and has provided significant resources to help the team with its travel and housing needs.

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