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Saturday, November 25, 2023, marked an extraordinary day of endless creativity for over 100 young minds as they attended the FIRST Lego League Challenge Mississauga Qualifying Tournament. Sponsored by FIRST Robotics Canada, and hosted by HNMCS Robotics, FRC Team 7659, this event brought together amazing engineers, programmers, and problem solvers for a day of funContinue reading “Masterpiece – FLL Challenge Mississauga Qualifying Tournament”

November 5, 2023, was an thrilling day for HNMCS Robotics! HNMCS Robotics were at the STEMley Cup Overtime Sunday. We got to see the awesome robots many teams made for the final time before the end of the season. Our Operator: Amy, Driver: Sam, Technician: Jona and Megan, Human Player: Poppy and Simona, and ScoutingContinue reading “STEMley: Overtime Sunday 2023”

HNMCS Robotics held their 7th annual Engineering Career Night on 26 October 2023 with Orbit Robotics! Six engineers from a variety of disciplines from mining to surgical robotics spoke about their journey from high school to the engineering profession. Some common themes were, “Know your strengths – use them to create your ‘brand’”, “Keep learningContinue reading “Engineering Career Night 2023”

This summer, HNMCS Robotics had 2 weeks of FIRST Robotics Day Camp. To prepare for the summer camp, members of HNMCS Robotics completed training with FIRST trying out the camp activities and planning for the camp as counsellors! In the 2 weeks of camp, We had over 40 registered campers! Whether the campers knew howContinue reading “2023 Summer Camps”

In 4 years HNMCS Robotics, FRC Team 7659, went from an obscure unknown team to becoming a powerhouse all-girls’ force to which teams across Canada look to model themselves by.  7659 continued to run outreach events that bring STEAM to youth both at HNMCS and beyond with the popular DropIN Coding sessions, STEM Day, STEAMContinue reading “2023 Year in Review”

Thursday May 18, 2023 hosted the 4th annual HNMCS Alumnae Chats. This event consisted of past HNMCS robotics team members to share their experiences and how robotics influenced their future. Our speakers included Julia, Melina, Pilar, Dream, and Rachel. By gaining knowledge on their current life after high school, students of HNMCS as well asContinue reading “Alumnae Chats 2023”

On Monday 15 May and Tuesday 16 May 2023, HNMCS Robotics connected with the grade 7 class of Mangilaluk School, a school located in Tuktoyaktuk of the Northwest Territories. Together, HNMCS Robotics and the grade 7 class exchanged knowledge on coding basics and the environment in Tuktoyaktuk.  On Monday, Mr. Brown’s grade 7 class sharedContinue reading “ConnectEd 2023”

On Saturday 6 May 2023, HNMCS Robotics hosted the first-ever EmpowHER event led by girls for girls! Over 20 girls from all around Ontario joined us. The free event included FLL robot matches, icebreaker games, EDI (equity, diversity, inclusion) activities, and more! To begin, the girls as a team built teamwork through completing the JEDIContinue reading “EmpowHER 2023”

HNMCS Robotics had an outstanding performance at the Provincial Competition over the Easter weekend at First Ontario Centre, Hamilton. During this three-day event, the team showcased how they strive to change the perspective of STEM to the executives of the FIRST Robotics Program, and they also demonstrated excellent teamwork as the drive team swerved throughContinue reading “HNMCS Robotics at Provincials”

During March Break after the past couple of weeks, HNMCS Robotics has been busy tweaking our 2023 robot, “Lightning Queen ” and preparing for the McMaster Event the first weekend of April.  Mechanically we have geared down our intake arm to easily manipulate cones in addition to cubes. We also replaced the belt drive withContinue reading “Preparing For Our 2nd Event”