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FIRST Lego League Qualifier Tournament and FIRST Tech Challenge Qualifier
2024-11-30 - 2024-12-01 | PSE - Pearl Sullivan Engineering 200 University Ave West Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
Youth Gearing Up for Exciting Robotics Competitions at the University
of Waterloo

If you like robots, you will want to watch teams compete at the
University of Waterloo during the weekend of Saturday Nov 30-Sunday
Dec 1. The fields are set for innovation, creativity, and teamwork as
FIRST Lego League (FLL) and FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) teams from
across Waterloo-Wellington region, Hamilton region and the Greater
Toronto Area prepare to display their skills at the two qualifier
events organized by Waterloo-Wellington FIRST Robotics in partnership
with Waterloo Engineering.

On Saturday, November 30, over a hundred of Grade 4 to 8 students will
put their engineering skills and student-designed LEGO-based robots to
the test on the SUBMERGED competition fields; these 19 teams will
compete to win a spot at the Provincial Championship in January. The
opening ceremony is at 8:30am followed by FIRST LEGO robot matches
starting at 9am until 3pm, with the award ceremony at 3h45pm.

On Sunday, December 1, 23 teams of high school students will compete
with their FIRST Tech Challenge robots and build their alliance to
become the champion of the inaugural event at Waterloo. Following
qualification games, teams will select their alliance partners and
will aim to become the first champion of the WWFIRST FTC qualifier
event. The opening ceremony is at 11am and robot games will take place
from 11:30am until 5pm. Awards ceremony is at 5h30pm.

Both events take place in Pearl Sullivan Engineering. Members of the
public are welcome to attend the events. Pits, where teams work on
their robots and display their projects and outreach activities, are
also open to the public from 9am to 4pm.
