2017 EA Robot Games Ireland

2017 EA Robot Games Ireland

Villiers School emerged as overall national champions and overall national runners up in the mini sumo robot competition, thereby retaining the title for the second year in succession. 

No less than184 teams from all over Ireland took part in 366 elimination matches as Villiers students battled it out with two of our teams reaching the final. It was bitter-sweet to see Villiers students take each other on in the final, as Eoghan Campion and Darragh Vandenberg challenged Ethan Dolan’s sumo robot who eventually went on to victory.

Adding to that success, Daniel Farushev then won the inaugural open sumo robot tournament in superb form.  This competition has no limitations on the design, components and programming of the robots and Daniel's victory shows his immense skill.

To cap off the day, Laura Holubowicz and Sinead O’Donnell-Stolz took part in the line following GP and F1 competitions taking 1^st and 2^nd place respectively. Their robot independently navigated a grand prix style track, clocking the fastest time on the day.

It was a huge success for all the students who took part on the day and it was thoroughly enjoyable to see them come away with so many honours. Congratulations to all and a huge thank you to Mr Browne for all his guidance and inspiration.

Teams: Ethan Dolan, Eoghan Campion and Darragh Vandenberg, Kennedy Tabot-Ndip and Jeffrey Alfred; Killian Keane and Aine Whelan; Daniel Farushev; Laura Holubowicz and Sinead O’Donnell-Stolz; Sam Dalton.

Keane and Aine Whelan, Daniel Farushev, Laura Holubowicz and Sinead O’Donnel-Stloz, Sam Dalton.

Conor Ryan - Leaving Cert Technology Award

Congratulations to Conor Ryan (Head Boy 2015-16) who recently received an award for his outstanding result in Leaving Certificate Higher level Technology 2016. Conor achieved the third highest grade in Ireland and was accompanied to an award ceremony in GMIT, Galway by his very proud teacher Mr. Browne. Both were presented with awards by the TechnoTeachers Association in recognition of their outstanding achievement in this subject area.
Mr. Browne is no stranger to these award ceremonies having accompanied two other students in recent years as they received awards for outstanding Leaving Certificate Technology results and bringing his Form V students to accept  National Robot Championship 2016.

Congratulations to Conor and Mr. Browne. We are very proud of you.

Sci Fest Success on the Double for Villiers Students

Building on Daniel's terrific win in the Junior Competition, we are hugely proud of Sam Davern, Alannah Fox and Gabriel Seth who won won the LIT Technology category prize for their project ‘HEAD - Humanitarian Emergency Aid Device’ – a highly durable and portable medicines refrigeration unit using an ammunition box and integrated solar panel.

The event was hosted by LIT’s Department of Applied Science. SciFest is an all-inclusive, all-island science initiative which fosters active, collaborative and inquiry-based learning among second-level students. It involves second-level students showcasing science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) projects at a series of one day science fairs held locally in schools and regionally in the 14 Institutes of Technology, DCU and St. Mary’s College, Derry. SciFest is funded primarily by Science Foundation Ireland, Intel and Boston Scientific. The winners from each regional science fair go on to compete at a national final in November 2016.

Well done to all our students for all their research and endeavours for this event. It is truly inspiring to see such interest in the STEM subjects in Villiers.