TAMCC Robotics Club aims to improve Grenada’s ranking in Dubai

NOW Grenada

  • TAMCC Robotics Club competed in 2017, placing 109 out of 160 countries
  • In 2018, Team Grenada placed 93 in Mexico
  • In 2019, Team Grenada seeks funding to participate in Dubai

For the last two years, the students representing the TA Marryshow Community College Robotics Club have managed to improve their world ranking at the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge in Dubai. The Government of the United Arab Emirates of Dubai would be officially hosting the 2019 FIRST Global Challenge 3-5 October.

In 2017, the team entered the competition held in Washington DC for the first time and competed among 160 countries placing 109th. The FIRST Global Robotics Challenge challenges students to develop their capabilities in science, mathematics, technology, and innovation and apply them in the engineering of robots designed to perform a particular function. The following year, team Grenada placed 93rd in the world at the competition held in Mexico ahead of Caribbean countries such as Dominica (99th), Antigua & Barbuda (123th), Haiti (150th), Bahamas(151st), Saint Kitts & Nevis (152nd) and Saint Lucia (155th). Countries ahead of Grenada were Jamaica (15th), Trinidad & Tobago (57th), Cuba (77th), Barbados (84th) and Guyana (89th).

This year the FIRST Global Robotics competition will be held in Dubai following the announcement of His Excellency Mohammed Al Gergawi, UAE Minister of Cabinet Affairs and the Future, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Managing Director of Dubai Future Foundation.

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