The Cayman Islands National Robotic Team is joining teams from 190 countries at the 2023 FIRST Global Challenge, in Singapore, in October.
During the competition, on 7-10 Oct., participants will be challenged to reimagine the future of energy and the ways in which we power our planet. Cayman’s team, and thousands of other students, will highlight the importance of renewable energy.
Members of Cayman’s 2023 team include students from six public and private local high schools – Amiyah Tahal of Triple C School; Joshua Williams of Cayman Prep and High School; Garrison French of Clifton Hunter High School; Sophia Villarin of St. Ignatius Catholic School; Maxwell Clarke of Cayman International School; and Isaiah Myles of John Gray High School.
Coach Desmond White from John Gray High School and team manager Glenda McTaggart from Dart will accompany the students.
The theme for this year’s Global Challenge is ‘Hydrogen Horizons’.
The challenges the teams will face include designing and building a robot from a standard kit of parts and programming it to navigate a simulated world where it is required to produce hydrogen that can be stored and transported, and then converted to energy.
McTaggart said, “We are excited to bring together robotics enthusiasts from Cayman Islands high schools who will have the opportunity to demonstrate their technical skills, programming abilities and teamwork on the world stage in Singapore. The FIRST Global event creates an opportunity to nurture cross-cultural cooperation among youth from around the world and for Cayman’s students to be a part of an exciting global initiative.”
Cayman has competed at FIRST Global since 2018, when it was held in Mexico City. Since then, a team from here has attended the competition in Dubai in 2019 and Switzerland in 2022.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, when people were unable to travel, national teams built a robot and competed in a virtual global competition.
The Cayman Islands National Robotics Team is part of Dart’s Minds Inspired programme offerings.
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