00:04Ditching remote controls and instead trusting their own programming code, a group of Bega
00:10Valley school kids have engineered an unlikely state title victory.
00:24To conquer ramps they must customise their builds, adjusting wheel sizes and types for
00:31manoeuvrability, balancing weight distribution and carefully calibrating light sensor heights
00:36so the robots can see.
01:05During competition the path could be covered in debris, have a water tower that the robot
01:10needs to navigate around, a seesaw to move up and down, or a bridge it needs to go underneath.
01:17But competitors can only watch and hope their programming is enough.
01:43One student said she disliked the fiddly stuff of building and through teacher guidance discovered
01:50a new love of programming.
