Shire Christian School students achieved outstanding success at the 27th annual RoboCup Junior Australia National Championships in Canberra over the October long weekend, with a Year 7 team claiming first place in the Novice OnStage competition and a Year 6 team receiving the Innovation Award. Competing against more than 278 teams from over 70 schools across Australia, the School’s eight robotics teams demonstrated exceptional skill, and teamwork on the national stage.
The massive event drew an overall attendance of more than 2,000 people, making it an incredible platform for our young innovators to showcase their robotics, coding and collaboration skills.
Rescue Line Teams
Our six Rescue Line teams faced a gruelling schedule, navigating over 12 highly challenging courses against more than 50 teams in each division, across two intense days of competition. Competing in the Riley Rescue, Primary Line, and Secondary Line divisions, our teams delivered excellent results. While they missed out on the finals, our team's showed great perseverance, as they supported and encouraged each other, working on refining builds, code and strategies to complete the challenging courses. Special congratulations goes to our Year 6 team, “We are not Lining” (Jordan, Vivian, Wesley, and Ruby), who took home the prestigious Innovation Award, for their creative and well designed robot called , “Noobie” – a fantastic achievement!
OnStage Teams Take First Place!
The OnStage competition is a massive undertaking, requiring teams to design, build, and program robots to perform a choreographed routine to music or tell a story. Managing an impressive fleet of 9 robots per team, extensive props and costumes, our Novice and Open teams delivered near-perfect performances. They also created a very detailed poster showing their design process and took part in a rigorous 20-minute technical interview explaining their original builds and complex code.
We are thrilled to announce that our Year 7 team, The Fellowship (Annabel, Lola, and Gaia), placed first in the Novice OnStage Competition! Their creativity, teamwork and engineering growth were truly outstanding. Our Open team ( Cailtyn, Elise, Emmie, Mia), placed 4th overall in this very technical and highly competitive division.
Thank You to Our Community
These exceptional results are the product of months of tireless work. Our students dedicated countless Thursday afternoons, lunch breaks and school holiday sessions to perfect their robots and code.
We extend a huge thank you to the "Shire Cheer Squad" – the incredible families who supported the teams, traveled to Canberra and cheered loudly for all our students throughout the weekend. Your support made all the difference! We give thanks to our great God who sustained us all over the weekend and whom we seek to glorify in all we do.
Mrs Leonie Hampson
Junior School Enrichment Coordinator
Mr Chris Pinn
Science Teacher
