High school students get taste of campus life as DC hosts FIRST® Robotics Competition

While competing in the FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) Ontario District Durham College (DC) event on March 2 and 3, high school students from across the province also got a first look at where they could be headed next while visiting the college’s Oshawa campus.

For the fifth year in a row, DC hosted more than 1,000 of the province’s brightest young minds, along with their mentors, family, friends and fellow robot enthusiasts, at the annual event. Competitors demonstrated their technological and engineering skills as they operated complex, 140-pound robots they had designed and built in only six weeks.

During the competition’s opening ceremonies, Marianne Marando, DC’s associate vice-president, Academic, shared additional campus highlights with attendees, including the upcoming opening of DC’s Esports Gaming Arena at the Oshawa campus and the work being done in the college’s AI Hub.

After two days of intensive battles, organized with the help of numerous, dedicated volunteers, the following teams comprising the Red Alliance were declared district champions:

Team 2220 MMRambotics
Team 610 Crescent Coyotes
Team 4783 RoboRavens

See all awards winners and results.

Students had a lot of fun while gaining real-world engineering experience, developing leadership skills and learning to work as a team under pressure and tight timelines.

Winners of the DC event now move on to the FIRST® Ontario Provincial Championship at the Paramount Fine Foods Centre in Mississauga, April 10 to 13, where they will compete for a spot at the World Championships that will be held in Detroit, Michigan, from April 24 to 27.

Learn more about FRC.