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EE news 12/03/2015.
The winners of the National EMC VEX
IQ competition, Scoil Eoin NS, Ballincollig returned home to Cork Airport from Birmingham, UK after winning four major awards at the VEX IQ UK Championship in Birmingham, where they faced off against twenty top British teams.
The primary school team, who swept to victory in the Cork finals last month, won the Programming Skills Award; Design Award; Robot Skills Challenge; and Teamwork Challenge with their self-built robot “Jaws”.
(front) Omar Alrajhi, Shane Usher, Alan Cronin, Wojciech Mundala and Bryan Smith with (rear) Lee Rossiter, Adam Summers, Keon Hardie, Milosz Nowak, Oisin Morin and Michael Gilmore show off their prize trophies with 'Jaws'. Absent from the photograph is Haris Kahn.
Pic; Larry Cummins,
Evening Echo staff
NUJ Photographer, Member of the Press Photographers' Association of Ireland.
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