Jamaica’s nine-member crew on the Robotics Olympics in Athens, Greece, secured a bronze medal within the competitors, which concluded on Sunday. The crew, returning to the island as we speak, was awarded the Dr. Mae Jemison Bronze for Worldwide Unity. This honor is given to the crew that exemplifies the perfect qualities of FIRST International by breaking down obstacles, demonstrating gracious professionalism, and fostering connections with fellow groups.
Along with the bronze medal, the Jamaican crew received the Social Media Problem Award, recognizing groups that actively participated in a majority of on-line social media challenges all through the season. In addition they obtained an award for the perfect storytelling video, which adhered to the rules for creating an impactful crew profile.
Total, Jamaica completed 58th out of 190 international locations taking part within the Robotics Olympics. The delegation consists of 5 college students, two coaches, one further scholar, and one further coach. The faculties represented within the 2024 crew included the American Worldwide College of Kingston (AISK), Campion Faculty, Hillel Academy, Immaculate Conception Excessive College, Kingston Faculty (KC), and Wolmer’s Excessive College for Boys.
The scholars who represented Jamaica on the Robotics Olympics included Alwyn Brown from Kingston Faculty (KC), Ojani Chung from Campion Faculty, Emily Zhu from Hillel Academy, Abbigail Cato from Immaculate Conception Excessive College, Sean-Michael Williams from the American Worldwide College of Kingston (AISK), and Jordon Williams from Wolmer’s Excessive College for Boys, who served because the assist scholar.
Workforce Jamaica Robotics has been guided for years by Head Coach Gavin Samuels, a Jamaica Faculty alumnus, although he was unable to attend this 12 months. Lengthy-time coach Paul Pounall additionally contributed to the crew’s preparation however needed to keep behind to deal with household issues.
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FIRST International assisted the core crew by protecting airfares and resort bills for the 5 foremost college students and two coaches. Final 12 months, the 10-member Jamaican Robotics crew was honored with the Katherine Johnson Award for engineering documentation, named after the famend African-American mathematician who considerably contributed to aeronautics and performed a key function in guaranteeing the secure return of astronauts John Glenn and Alan Shepard from house.
