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The St Joseph's Primary School's robotics team pictured at their homecoming at St Joseph's Primary School, Ballinrobe on Sunday, May 5 (Pic: Darra Deane Photography)
STUDENTS from St Joseph’s National School are to receive a civic reception from Mayo County Council to recognise their achievements at an international robotics competition.
In May, the students won an ‘Innovate’ award at the VEX Robotics World Championship in Dallas for demonstrating ‘an effective and well documented Engineering Design Process for a specific aspect of their team’s design of gameplay strategy’.
St Joseph’s made headlines when they became the first team from Connacht to win the National VEX IQ finals by designing a robot which was tasked with picking up and dispatching as many square cubes as possible in a minute.
A group of ten students then travelled from South Mayo to Texas to represent Ireland at the world championships with their principal, Dymphna Culhane, and their teachers Sean Flannelly and Edel Roache.
They were the first Connacht team ever to represent Ireland at the competition and received a hero’s welcome when they returned home to Ballinrobe.
The civic reception for the St Joseph’s Primary School will take place at Áras an Chontae in Castlebar at 5.30 pm on Monday, January 13.
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