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It was a day to celebrate at St. Clair College Wednesday, marking the two-year anniversary of a massive investment by the College into the state-of-the-art Robotics Lab in the Ford Centre for Excellence in Manufacturing.
"We really wanted to get everyone together and celebrate the birthday of this amazing space that we have here," said John Byng, the Chair of the School of Engineering Technologies at St. Clair College. "We have a teaching lab that is second-to-none in robotics, we think, of any other college around."
The corridors and classrooms at St. Clair College were packed with high school students from across the province over the weekend for the FIRST Tech Challenge qualifier tournament, aptly dubbed 'Into the Deep.'
High school students hailing from Richmond Hill, Whitby, Mississauga, Brampton, and London joined teams from Windsor-Essex to compete against one another in this FIRST Tech Challenge, which is considered a stepping-stone towards the highly popular FIRST Robotics competitions.